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Before Father Thomas could reply, the shrillest scream that had ever met his ears came out of the window of the smithy. "Ankaret!" it said. "Ankaret! An-ka-ret!" "Ha! That's Her!" whispered Dan, as if he were awed by the sound. An answering scream, as shrill, but scarcely so loud, came from the neighbouring cottage. "Whatever do you want now?" said the second shriek.
There is at times in the hearts of all men of active life a vivid wild moment or two of dramatic dialogue between the veteran antagonists, Nature and Circumstance, when they, whose business it should be to be joyfully one, furiously split; and the Dame is up with her shrillest querulousness to inquire of her offspring, for the distinct original motive of his conduct.
Presently the door was opened by an active-looking little old woman with a high voice. "Mrs. Thomas," thought Owen to himself; "she is even worse than I expected." "Now you must please to go away," began the formidable housekeeper in her shrillest key; "it is too late to show visitors over. Why, bless us, it's you, Miss Beatrice, with a strange man! What do you want?"
He it was who made the best cornstalk fiddles, and whittled out the shrillest whistles with which to drive grandma "ravin' distracted." He, too, it was who, on cold winter mornings, carried Lizzie to school in his arms, making me forget how my fingers ached, by telling some exploit of his schooldays.
At first he paid no attention to her, and his groans did not cease, though they became rather intermittent, as if the paroxysms of pain were less frequent. Finally, her voice, now pitched to its shrillest, penetrated his consciousness, and at her question: "What's the matter with ye? Got the colic?" he turned upon his side and his face was revealed.
Indeed, not a word could be got from her until, entering the dining-room, she perceived her bottle of Hollands upon the table, on which she raised up her voice and cursed the whole company, from the inspector downwards, with the shrillest volubility of invective.
We were so happy the telegraph up, and the weather jolly, and holidays nearly here. `All unsuspecting of their doom the little victims played. And then this! Holidays with Aunt Maria! Even the third of a chance turns me cold with dismay. I couldn't bear " "You won't need to. She won't have you. She'll choose Darsie." Darsie squealed in shrillest protest "No, no! It's not fair. She won't!
So stepping out to the head of the stairs, I shouted down in my shrillest treble: "Your Betsy Beauty is a wicked devil, and I wouldn't trust but she'll burn in hell!" Never, to the last hour of my life, shall I forget the effect of that pronouncement. One moment Aunt Bridget stood speechless in the middle of the stairs, as if all breath had been broken out of her.
From every window heads were thrust and hands extended waving scarfs of silk or scattering flowers. The blare of the soldiers' music grew louder and louder, the tramp of horse and men came nearer and nearer, and then, when the cheering was at its shrillest and the rain of flowers thickest, Villon rode in through the gateway on his great warhorse with his five ruffians close at his heels.
With that he thrust two fingers in his mouth and blew his shrillest and longest whistle, then waited the result. Presently he spied a dog, still at a great distance, coming swiftly towards him; it was his own dog, mad with joy at finding his old master. Did ever two friends, long sundered by unhappy chance, recognize each other's voices at such a distance and so come together once more!
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