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As we looked up the street we could see part of the mob still running hard, but the swordsmen had taken refuge to right and left, in doorways, angles, and in side shops, and were peering round at us, watching every movement. "No' laugh!" said Ching anxiously. "Big fool. Think um bleech-loader. Now, come 'long, walkee walkee blackward. I go first."

"But you wouldn't now?" "I I can't bear to THINK of him...." "Um!..." Hilda's expressive syllable was very like her father's. It was her way of saying, "I see, and I'll bet you don't see, and I'm not surprised particularly, but you'll be surprised when you find it out." It said all that to Hilda's satisfaction.

And who told you to come here?" "Who towld me, is ut? Who but the payler outside in the street below! I explained to 'um, an' sez he: 'Ah, you go an' take a slape, sez he; 'you go an' take a good slape, an' they'll be all gone whin ye wake up. 'But they'll murdher me, sez I. 'Oh, no! sez he, smilin' behind av his ugly face.

You'll scare everything away." "Ho! Me wish um could," said Jumbo, his teeth chattering in his head with fear as he listened to the dying groans of a poor ox, and heard the lions growling and roaring beside him. They were not more than fourteen yards off, but so dark was the night that they could not be seen.

Major Grover sartinly did seem to put the fear of the Lord into Phin this afternoon. . . . And that's no one-horse miracle," he drawled, "when you consider that all the ministers in Orham haven't been able to do it for forty odd years. . . . Um. . . . Yes, I kind of cal'late Phin'll keep his hatches shut.

Mr Cophagus would reply, when they had gained the back parlour, but I could overhear him, "father, um can't tell love concealment child born foundling hospital put out and so on." This was constantly occurring, and the constant occurrence made me often reflect upon my condition, which otherwise I might, from the happy and even tenor of my life, have forgotten.

"There are the boys!" cried Andy, trying to break away from those who held him. "An' Tom an' Bill is there likewise!" exclaimed Washington, who had caught a glimpse of the two helpers. "De heathen am goin' to kill 'um!" "We're here, Jack!" sung out the hunter. "Make the best fight you can, for we are in terrible hands. The poor professor is done for, I guess, and we'll soon be, too!"

"How long have you been outside there?" "Only a few minutes," answered Andy. "Did you see anybody in this room beside myself?" "Yes, ma'am a man." "And eavesdropping, I suppose?" insinuated Miss Lavinia. "I heard him say 'good night," "Um!" commented Miss Lavinia. That closed the subject for the present.

Watch um tail, little brother." For at the first move the big wolf sprang alertly to his feet, looked deep into Mooka's eyes with that intense, penetrating light which serves a wild animal to read your very thoughts, and instantly his great bushy tail was waving its friendly greeting. It was indeed Malsunsis, the cub.