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The Cockney took over the helm at midnight. I hurried forward, eager to see what was happening in the fore part of the ship, and anxious to speak with Newman. The air of unease, of expectancy, which I had felt so strongly aft, was even more evident forward. My watch, though off duty, did not go below directly. Men were standing about whispering to each other.
Momentary unease gone, he was quiet and Southern and even indolent about it. "We'll go to Greenwich first thing in the morning and be married," he said. "Sh-h-h!" she whispered to his quietness. "Don't wake Marcia." "Hattie " he said, and started to touch her. "Don't!" she sort of cried under her whisper, but not without noting that his hand was ready enough to withdraw. "Please go now "
Then Taj el Mulouk returned to his dwelling place and his longing redoubled and impatience and unease were sore upon him; and when the night darkened upon him, he wept and sighed and complained and repeated the following verses: The shadows darken and my tears flow aye without avail, Whilst in my heart the fires of love rage on and never fail.
"It's no use asking you where we are now, I suppose?" it said in a peevish tone. But the teamster's mood was its match. "Not a heap, I guess, ma'm," he retorted, and gave up his attention to avoiding the precipice on his right. "How far is the place supposed to be?" The woman's unease was very evident. Her eyes were upon the darkening walls of the canyon toward which they were traveling.
And Bubbles, with a touch of reluctance, got up and left the three men to whom she was talking. As she came towards her, her aunt was struck by the girl's look of ill-health and unease. "I wish you could think of something that would stir us all up," she said in a low voice.
Someone near him exclaimed in a matter-of-fact voice, "We've struck; we're on a rock." Everyone stood up, and he saw an awful look of doubt, of unease, cross the faces of the men and women about him. The fog-horn ceased trumpeting, and there rose confused sounds, loud hoarse shouts and thin shrill cries, accompanying the dull thunder caused by the tramping of feet.
Suddenly I was aware of Da Costa's presence and turned. His unease was manifest and held, it seemed to me, a queer, furtive anxiety. "What you think of Olaf, sair?" he asked. I shrugged my shoulders. "You think he killed his woman and his babee?" He went on. "You think he crazee and killed all?" "Nonsense, Da Costa," I answered. "You saw the boat was gone.
He started up with a little cry at the sight of one of the men who had walked so swiftly from one house to the next; surely he was a Beaker trader! His unease grew stronger with every moment he watched, but it was the oddness he sensed in that town which bothered him and not any warning that he, himself, was in danger.
And so, truly, I to be clothed and armed very speedy, and to feel eased and the more sure in my mind; for in verity, I was alway in unease, when that I did not be ready that I be able to meet any horrid Brute that should be like to come upon us.
While the Prince was doing his part she noticed his movements seemed languid and not full of his usual wild entrain, and her feeling of unease and dread of she knew not what increased.
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