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"Lord," he gasped, "some one is upon us! We thought first it was naught but the noise of the wind then Elward saw a light. We swear they came not over the bridge, yet " His words were cut short by a horn-blast from the darkness, loud and clear above the whistling wind. Though only one woman screamed out Edmund's name, it is probable that the same thought was in every mind.
At first Beth and I stopped and hesitated to go on, but as the sidewalk seemed open and fairly free I pulled Beth along, thinking we might discover what the row was about. Just as we got opposite the building a big workman rushed at us and shouted: 'Go back go back! The wall is falling. "Well, Uncle, you can imagine our dismay. We both screamed, for we thought our time had come, for sure.
"I will take her away." "Immediately?" "Immediately. Call the child." "Cosette!" screamed the Thenardier. "In the meantime," pursued the man, "I will pay you what I owe you. How much is it?" He cast a glance on the bill, and could not restrain a start of surprise: "Twenty-three francs!" He looked at the landlady, and repeated: "Twenty-three francs?"
Squeezing between two large barrels of potatoes he saw two stone steps at the foot of that wall and managed actually to put his foot on one of them. "I wish I knew what's back of that wall," he remarked at last. "Oh, nothing," said Lena indifferently. "There might be skeletons," he ventured after a pause. "Jesus Christ, child," Lena almost screamed, looking as if she had caught sight of a ghost.
A step nearer I realized that Vedia's maid, a woman not unlike her in build, as faithful to her as Agathemer was to me and amazingly astute, had had the shrewdness and also the time to fool the brigands by exchanging clothes with her mistress in the carriage. "Vedia!" I exclaimed. "Caia!" "Castor!" she screamed. "You know me? You call me Caia? Are you a ghost? Are you alive? And that voice!
I hear Dr Garland's voice below: he shall come to you. 'No no no! he almost screamed. 'Send me no doctors; I hate doctors! But I'll go to bed since since you wish it; but no doctors!
The thud of feet and the pounding of her heart, and the whimpering of the little man who lay, face down, on the sofa, were the only sounds in her ears. She started to go with the crowd. But Adrian screamed to her to stay. "Oh," he cried, "he sank so softly he sank so softly he sank so softly! Oh, God, oh, God he sank so softly!"
Menie screamed again and again. At the third scream he saw his father straighten up, shade his eyes with his hand, and look out to sea. "Oh," Menie thought. "What if he shouldn't see me!" He shouted louder than ever! He waved his arms! He even pinched the tails of Nip and Tup and made them bark. Then he saw his father wave his hand and dive into the tunnel.
Watch!" screamed the thoroughly frightened old woman. "Oh, help! help! fire!" At this terrible noise nearly every one in the household was aroused, and hurried to the spot whence it proceeded. They found Mrs. Thomas standing in the dark, with the lid of the jar in her hand, herself the personification of terror.
Look upon the dead body, that should have been in its grave; it's fresher now than it was the day on which it died, and there's a colour in its cheeks! A vampyre a vampyre a vampyre! Heaven save us from a vampyre!" The strange, infuriated, maniacal manner in which these words were uttered, produced an astonishingly exciting effect among the mob. Several women screamed, and some few fainted.
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