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So we tugged at the sable heroine, and first one leg came home out of the tenacious clay, with a plop, then the other was drawn out of the quagmire. We then relieved her of the paddles, and each taking hold of one of the poor half dead creature's hands, we succeeded in getting down to the beach, about half a mile to leeward of the entrance to the cove.
Before the great splash which followed his release had died out, from the near bank came the "plop plop!" of heavy bodies dropping into the water. Little swam around the seamen and surged up alongside the skipper, whispering into his ear so that none other could hear: "'Gators, skipper!"
They tossed pebbles in to judge the depth from the sound which ranged from the "splash" of the shallows to the gurgling "plop" of the deeps, and followed the pebbles with rocks, till at last the sluggish pool was stirred and furrowed with waves. And in the very midst of their sport a black hand appeared above the waters, and with a heavy roll the body itself floated before them, dead and stark.
Of course, if we advance to-morrow the body would have been " "Damn you," said Lean, "shut your mouth!" He was not the senior officer. He again filled the shovel and flung the earth. Always the earth made that sound plop! For a space Lean worked frantically, like a man digging himself out of danger. Soon there was nothing to be seen but the chalk-blue face. Lean filled the shovel.
The row was deafening first a terrific bang, then a swizzing through the air with a sound like a sob, and then a plop at the other end where it had exploded somewhere. At first, as with all newcomers in the firing line, we ducked our heads as the shells went over, to a roar of delight from the men, but in time we gave that up.
There is a certain solid plop about the fall of the former which not even a long envelope full of proofs can imitate successfully. I worked extraordinarily hard at that time. All day, sometimes. The thought of Margie waiting in Guernsey kept me writing when I should have done better to have taken a rest. My earnings were small in proportion to my labour.
The tramp, with a smothered ejaculation, bent and picked up a bit of iron, relic of some sportsman's passage. Tito saw the raised hand and ducked, hearing the missile hurtle over his head and plop into the water behind him. It frightened him, but not so much as the man's face. Like a small, terrified animal he bent and fled.
I used to think I should die if my feet were wet. It is really delightful to feel the water go 'plop! in and out of one's boots. Now, my dear," she added, "I really cannot let you be cross, because Peggy and I are in the most delightful good humour, and we came in on purpose, because we thought you would be awake, and would want to be amused.
Here, there, and everywhere were tracks, of coyotes, fox, rabbit, martin, and the little pointed patteran of winter birds, yet they saw nothing living. "What's got the elk and moose this season?" muttered Miss Blake. Nothing stirred except the soft plop of shaken snow or the little flurry of drifting flakes.
"My dear boy, you are becoming metaphysical, and that is as bad as softening of the brain," said Argyle. "All right," said Lilly. "And," said the Marchese, "it may be so by REASON. But in the heart ? Can the heart ever beat quite alone? Plop! Plop! Can the heart beat quite alone, alone in all the atmosphere, all the space of the universe? Plop! Plop! Plop! Quite alone in all the space?"
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