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The draught was at her lips. A moment and she would be past all help, let the whole world wake and come about her with its utmost power. But in that moment Rachael started up with a suppressed cry. The creature struggled, struck her, seized her by the hair; but Rachael had the cup. Stephen broke out of his chair. 'Rachael, am I wakin' or dreamin' this dreadfo' night? ''Tis all well, Stephen.
And I went upstairs, ma'am, not imaginin' nothin' neither, and tapped at 'is door, and 'e didn't answer, so I opens it softly, and ses: ''Ow are you this mornin', sir? I ses, quite softly like, in a whisper, for fear of wakin' 'im if 'e should be asleep. Oh, dear! Oh, dear! I needn't 'a' bin so careful!
However, that one won't make no difference. She ain't interested in in the one the telegram was sent to, 'tain't likely." "Where is Miss Colton now?" I asked. "With her ma and pa, I presume likely. Her and me set and whispered together for a long spell. Land sakes! she wouldn't let me speak louder'n a whisper for fear of wakin' you up.
That's what I shall tell my dear daddy; an' why? an' why? 'cos that's what my mammy comes an' tells me every night, wakin' an' sleepin' that's what she comes an' tells me, reia, in the waggin an' in the tent, an' aneath the sun an' aneath the stars an' that's what the fiery eyes of the Romany Sap says out o' the ferns an' the grass, an' in the Londra streets, whenever I thinks o' you.
Ross was still on guard and the others sleeping when Henry's figure appeared through the dusk, but they awoke and sat up when he called, low, to them. "What are you wakin' us up fur, Henry?" asked the shiftless one, as he rubbed a sleepy eye.
"Struck it big?" he went on as the dingy gold scales were produced from the shelf at the back. Then he laughed amiably. "It needs to be big, wakin' me in my slack time." "Oh, it's big enuff," cried Ike confidently, his eager, young, animal face alight with pleasure. He watched the other with impatient eyes as he deliberately picked out the weights.
"That father o' yours is certainly quite an innocent old party," Shorty answered, consolingly, "and the things he don't know about army life'd make more'n a pamphlet. But he has a way of wakin' up to the situation that is sometimes very surprisin'. I wisht I was able to go about with him, but I think he's fully able to take care o' himself around in camp.
Another voice became audible. It was that of Ned Higgs, who had opened his door to bellow curses at the disturbers of his rest. 'They'll be wakin' mother, said Stephen. 'There, I knew they would. Mrs. Candy stirred, and, after a few vain efforts to raise herself, started up suddenly.
But you just done a dangerous thing, Jud. And there'll be a consid'able pile of men here in the mornin', most like, to ask you how and why." He was astonished to hear Jud break into laughter. "Hush up," said Pop. "You'll be wakin' him up with all that noise. Besides, what d'you mean by laughin' at the law?" "Why, granddad," said Jud, "don't I know you wouldn't never let no posse take me from you?
"We had to guard you most of the time, Henry," said Shif'less Sol, "'cause you're a sort of curiosity. Fellers hev kep' comin' here to see the lad what swam the hull len'th o' the Ohio an' then the hull len'th o' the Lickin', most o' the time with his head under water, an' we had to keep 'em from wakin' you. We'd let 'em look at you, but we wouldn't let 'em speak or breathe loud.
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