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"Him top-feathers, him head, an' him ugly mouf," reiterated Fifine, who had become impressed with the belief that she had done something very clever indeed, and was enchanted to hear it celebrated. Odalie's exertions were more appreciated at the hospital, where she assisted in dressing the wounds and caring for the comfort of the soldiers who had been shot.
He wagged his head to and fro till "him top-feathers" temporarily obliterated the squad of henchmen behind him, in woe that he could not take the money, yet not in indecision.
He held it up close, with an expression of childish delight that metamorphosed his fierce face and seemed actually to freshen the expression of "him top-feathers." In obedience to a motion of Atta-Kulla-Kulla's hand, Stuart followed him out to the parade in the red rays of the sinking sun, how often thence had he watched it go down behind the level ramparts of the Cumberland Mountains!
The mystery was too fraught with menace to be disregarded, but Odalie hesitated, doubting the policy of this direct question. Fifine's interest, however, was suddenly renewed and her importance expanded. "Him wasn't all in," she explained. "Him top-feathers him head an' him ugly mouf!" She looked expectantly and half doubtfully at her mother, remembering her seeming anger. "Oh, how droll!
And did you ever see hair that shines so, like the top-feathers of a raven who's nibbling at himself in the hottest bit of sunshine he can find? Deliver us, but I'll go with the sugar this minute!" The happy Jean hopped out, like a cricket over-burdened with life, calling loudly to his wife, who came to meet him. A few minutes later Jan thrust his head in at their door, as he was passing.
There Stuart saw him still so delirious that, although recognizing the officer in some sort, he talked wildly of pressing dispatches, of the inattention and callous hearts of officials in high station, of delays and long waitings for audience in official anterooms, of the prospect of any expedition of relief for the fort, of Odalie, and red calashes, and Savanukah, and rifle-shots, and Fifine, and "top-feathers," and Sandy Sandy Sandy; always Sandy!
Odalie had often noted it; dark it was, for the shadows fell on it, and it might be deep; limited it would but hold her piggin, should she thrust it there, or admit a man's head, yet not his shoulders and this was what it had done yesterday, for protruding thence Fifine maintained she had seen Willinawaugh's face with "him top-feathers, him head, an' him ugly mouf!"
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