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Come quick! Help here!" The robber, having uttered a stifled cry of alarm at the instant of the unexpected attack, was now thrashing mightily about on the thick rug. "Help!" he shouted. "Who are you? Let me go!" "S-sh!" commanded Perry sternly, as the others plunged to his aid, overturning a chair on the way. "Be quiet! Sit on his legs, Ossie!"
On the opposite bank several large trees had been felled and a quantity of aspens had been cut down and piled in confusion on the edge of the water. "Do your ranchers live near here?" asked she. "I didn't say they were ranchers, Nolla." "Well, woodcutters, or what you call them!" "Yes," laughed Polly, "they are woodcutters and live in those mud huts." "What?" cried Eleanor again. "S-sh!
My dear girl, is the rheumatism so bad?" Sophie twisted her head this way and that, her lips pursed in warning. "S-sh! Be careful! You never know who is about. I am rather stiff to-day. This raw fog has been the last straw. I shall be all right when we get through this month. I hate March! It finds out all the weak spots. Please, Claire, don't take any notice.
"What if I have? Whom else am I to go to? Isn't he " "But why did you go to him? What did you say?" "I said I said Never mind what I said. He agrees with me, I can tell you that. You'll thank your stars I did go, before very long. I.... S-sh! Here's Sylvester." The door of the room opened.
The night was still, and the trees at the window gave forth a sound like the monotonous s-sh of rain. The chant continued for about a minute. While it lasted Mrs. Detlor sat motionless and her hands lay lightly on the shoulders of the young girl. Hagar dropped his foot on the floor at marching intervals by instinct he had caught at the meaning of the sounds. When the voice had finished, Mrs.
The ardor with which I spoke and the details of my dealings with the shadchen must have made my explanation convincing, for she accepted it at once "You're not fooling me, are you?" she asked, piteously, yet in a tone of immense relief. "Strike me dumb if " "'S-sh! Don't curse yourself," she said, clapping her hand over my mouth. "I can't bear to hear it. I believe you.
"'S-sh!" she cautioned me in an irritated whisper I dropped my voice. She listened for another minute or two and then, suddenly rising, she said: "Oh, you are a Talmud student, after all," and her indistinct kimono vanished in the darkness
"I found him snoozing in a little kennel out back," the mate said. "He's the cook, I suppose. Can't get a word out of him. What did you find?" "A sleeping princess. S-sh! There's somebody now." "If it's Hall," Snow muttered, clenching his fist. Grief shook his head. "No rough-house. There's a woman here. And if it is Hall, before we go I'll maneuver a chance for you to get action."
"Suppose the wildcat had got me, she'd be sorry when she comes, wouldn't she?" There was no reply yet, save by gesture, the language of primitive man; but the big body shivered a little, and the uncouth hand felt for a place in the bed where the lad's knee made a lump under the robe. He felt the little heap tenderly, but the child winced. "S-sh, but that hurts!
Then I asked, with well-simulated indignation, "Your wife has not persuaded you that I have cheated her out of some money, has she?" "Why, no. Not at all," he answered, looking at the pavement. "It isn't that at all. The thing is driving me mad." "But what is it?" I shouted, in a rage "'S-sh!" he said, nervously. "If you are going to be excited like that it's no use speaking at all.
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