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Thoughts that insisted on obtruding themselves I pushed resolutely to the back of my mind, and I systematically relaxed every muscle. I fell asleep soon, and was dreaming that Doctor Walker was building his new house immediately in front of my windows: I could hear the thump-thump of the hammers, and then I waked to a knowledge that somebody was pounding on my door.
There was an uncomfortable emptiness about a day on which he did not see her, and when at night he waited for her outside the shabby stage door of the Strand Theatre his heart would go thump-thump in a manner over which he had no control, but which seemed so very remotely connected with himself as he understood the term that he made no account of it.
It was, however, but a vain task for these mad myrmidons of Neptune to attempt, strive as recklessly as they might in their wrath, for the good ship spurned them with her forefoot and the star-crowned maiden bowed mockingly to them from her perch above the bobstay, laughing in her glee as she rode over them triumphantly and sailed along onward; and so the baffled roysterers were forced to fall back discomforted from their rash onslaught, swirling away in circling eddies aft, where, anon, the cruel propeller tossed and tore them anew with its pitiless blades ever whirling round with painful iteration to the music of their monotonous refrain, "Thump-thump, Thump-thump," and ever churning up the already seething sea into a mass of boiling, brawling, bubbling foam that spread out astern of us in a broad shimmering wake in the shape of a lady's fan, stretching backward on our track as far as the eye could see and flashing out sparks of fire as it glittered away into the dim distance, like an ever-widening belt of diamonds fringed with pearls.
I can't get out and get a smoke, and I can't do nothin' here; so here goes for a second nap. Well I was soon off agin in a most a beautiful of a snore, when all at once I heard thump-thump agin the shutter and the most horrid noise I ever heerd since I was raised; it was sunthin' quite onairthly. "'Hallo! says I to myself, 'what in natur is all this hubbub about?
I can't get out and get a smoke, and I can't do nothin' here; so here goes for a second nap. Well I was soon off agin in a most a beautiful of a snore, when all at once I heard thump-thump agin the shutter and the most horrid noise I ever heerd since I was raised; it was sunthin' quite onairthly. "'Hallo! says I to myself, 'what in natur is all this hubbub about?
The crying of babies, the quarrels of a couple in the flat back of them, the wheeze of a rusty phonograph, and the thump-thump of a playerpiano, operated with every violation of the musical code, added to the nerve-racking din. Ruth made a gesture of despair. "Beautiful!" murmured Alice as the paper roll in the mechanical piano got a "kink," and played a crash of discords.
Under the kitchen table there was a row of boots all wrinkled by usage, and each wearing a human and almost intelligent aspect a well-wrinkled boot has often an appearance of mad humanity which can chain and almost hypnotize the observer. As she lifted the boots out of her way she named each by its face. There was Grubtoes, Sloucher, Thump-thump, Hoppit, Twitter, Hide-away, and Fairybell.
Take and marry the miserable fool, if you're so minded." Humphrey Stephen had more to say, but gulped it down and mounted his horse with a devilish grin. Roger Stephen went back to his work-bench. "Pack of fools!" growled old Malachi as the thump-thump of the drum drew nearer. He rose and shifted his stool to a corner, for the way to the back premises lay through the shop.
In answer to the skipper's signal a sudden blast of steam rushed up the funnel abaft the wheel-house, and I could feel the ship tremble as the shaft began to revolve and the propeller blades splashed the water astern with the familiar "thump-thump, thump-thump." All hands joined in a hearty cheer, to which Masters and I in the top lent what aid our lungs could give.
"Steady there," next sang out the captain. "Steady, my man!" "Aye, aye, sir," repeated the parrot-like Tom Parrell, bringing the helm amidships again. "Steady it is!" "By George, we're nearing the boat fast!" cried the skipper after another short pause, during which we had been going ahead full speed, with a quick "thump-thump, thump-thump" of the propeller and the water foaming past our bows.
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