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There was no answer; and, after waited a minute or two, she moved and resumed her former seat, the stray doves flew back to their customary promenade on the roof, and the drowsy whirr-whirr of the spinning-wheel murmured again its monotonous hum upon the air. "Come on, Phil," whispered Lorimer, determined not to be checked this time; "I feel perfectly wretched!
The time being about two o'clock, in the middle of the summer season, the road was glaring and dusty, and drawing near to his father's house he sat down in the sun. He stretched out his hand upon the rock beside him. It felt warm. That was the island's personal temperature when in its afternoon sleep as now. He listened, and heard sounds: whirr-whirr, saw-saw-saw.
By this time he was almost asleep, but he kept repeating to himself, "I wonder I wonder I wonder," over and over again, until it sounded more like whirrder-whirrder-whirr yes, Laurie was almost sure he had stopped saying "wonder" and something soft like whirr-whirr sounded close by, as if one of the pigeons themselves was flying about the room.
The rattling of the windows, the quivering of the ship's body, the gurgling whirr-whirr of the propeller, the whistling, squalling and howling of the wind, which laid the vessel on her side, all this combined to produce extreme discomfort in the travellers.
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