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Swiggs replies with a languishing sigh, mistaking the head of the cat for her Milton, and apologizing for her error as that venerable animal, having got well squeezed, sputters and springs from her grasp, shaking his head, "elected solely on the respectability of my family." Rather a collapsed member, by the way, Mr. Soloman thinks, contemplating her facetiously.
It was getting dusk, and the candle which bore itself so bravely through auction and lease-sealing burnt low in the socket. A minute later the light gave some flickering flashes, failings, and sputters, and then the wick tottered, and out popped the flame, leaving us with the chilly grey of a March evening creeping up in the corners of the room.
He stumbled over to the table, feeling his way, clutching the soft thing by the arm, the shoulder. "It is you, Kaya, tell me, it is you! Damn the match, it is damp, how it sputters! Put your face close, let me see it. Kaya! Is it you, yourself?" The two faces stared at one another in the flickering light, almost touching; then the other sprang back with a cry of dismay.
'I don't know yet, sputters Lute, 'whether I'm drowned or smothered, but I'm somewheres betwixt and between. That's me, Abbie, on that guardian business. I'm still betwixt and between. But before this day's over I'll be drowned or smothered, and I'll let you know which next time I write." After lunch he took a stroll in the Park and passed up and down the paths, thinking, thinking.
Meantime the drops patter thicker on the leaves overhead, and the leaves, in turn, pass the water down to the table; the sky darkens; the wind rises; there is a kind of shiver in the woods; and we scud away into the shanty, taking the remains of our supper, and eating it as best we can. The rain increases. The fire sputters and fumes. All the trees are dripping, dripping, and the ground is wet.
I calls through the transom; but as there's no letup to the debate I strolls over to the door, prepared to reprove someone real severe. It's quite some spirited scene out on the landin'. There's old man Bloom, a short, squatty, fish-eyed old pirate with a complexion like sour dough. He has one foot on the next flight, and seems to be retreatin' as he waves his pudgy hands and sputters.
However that may be, the important point is that finally I felt her struggles subside. Her hands no longer acted with intelligence; they moved about wildly in front of her face, as if to push away a tangle of cobwebs. Her head rolled to and fro; the gurglings, sputters, half-uttered cries of rage, ceased.
Sunshine flickers shiftily, coming and going without any honest purpose; snow-squalls blow for five minutes, the flakes disappearing as they touch the earth; half an hour later rain sputters, turns to snow and then turns back to rain and the sun disingenuously beams out again, only to be shut off like a rogue's lantern.
One by one, the men about Leif dropped off, snoring; and he heeded it no more than he did the soughing of the wind through the grove. By and by, even the fresh torches began to snore, in angry sputters; and the fire, which had long since begun to wink drowsily, shut its last red eye and lay in total oblivion. Leif sat up reluctantly, and stretched his arms over his head with a regretful sigh.
By the 'oly Peter! Let me at 'im! I'll show 'im whether I'm living or not! "'What ails you, you villain? says the feller that owned the yacht, a great big Englishman, Lord Somebody-or-other. 'The man saved your lives. "'He knocked us overboard! yells Julius. "'Yes, and he done it a-purpose! sputters Van Doozen, well as he could for being so waterlogged. "'Let's kill him! says all three.
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