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The dust trodden up by so many marching feet was terrible. It hung in clouds and added a sting to the burning heat. Dick was wild with impatience, but he knew that it was not worth while to say anything. He, Warner and Pennington, for the lack of something else to do, lay on the dry grass, whispering and watching as well as they could what was going on in Sharpsburg.
Those rascals have cut the wire braces that support the tail-skid, and it's lopping away over!" Paul's announcement threw his friends into a state of consternation. As they viewed the wire braces, neatly cut with a pair of nippers, they recalled Pete Deveaux's act of whispering in the ear of one of his party just preceding the recent fight, and realized now its full import.
The desert was dryer here than in the vicinity of Ragtown, and greasewood and whispering yuccas gave place to low sage and the shimmering dry lakes, which lure thirsting men on to their doom with their mocking resemblance to the life-saving water the wanderer craves. Always, it seemed, there was somewhere within the range of Hiram's vision one of those weird whirlwinds sweeping along.
Anyway, he cared nothing for their plans now; he had spoiled everything for them. But how was he to tell David, how was he to tell David? By and by, a third man joined them and there was more whispering with heads close together. At last, the three arose and made preparations for going out.
Cross-examined, he said there was no end of a row on in the town. During morning school he explained further, whispering his tale into the attentive ear of Knight of the School House, who sat next to him. What sort of a row, Knight wanted to know.
Sasha, her head resting on his shoulder, was softly whispering into his ear something at which he blushed and was confused, for he felt that she was kindling in him the desire to embrace this woman and kiss her unceasingly. Aside from her, none of those assembled there interested him while Zvantzev and the gentleman with the side whiskers were actually repulsive to him. "What are you staring at?
That night, after retiring to his room, Carson sat a long time at the open window, gazing out through the whispering trees toward the fall moon that was rising in the east. The old feeling of sadness and disappointment stole over him and gave him a sensation of uncontrollable loneliness in the world. "I suppose I was mistaken about Lizette," he finally muttered.
Nor was its voice less unearthly. It used the shell of the earth valley for its trumpetings, its clangors but as one hears in the murmurings of the fluted conch the great voice of ocean, its whispering and its roarings, so here in the clamorous shell of the Pit echoed the tremendous voices of that illimitable sea which laps the shores of the countless suns.
The other rooms were filled with shifting groups of beautiful women, and men wearing orders and medals. There was a continuous buzz of conversation, except in the room where the music was going on; and even there in the background there was a subdued whispering.
With the absence of the leader the feeling of restraint seemed to relax. The cowboys began whispering among themselves and chuckling with glee, as if they were enjoying some huge joke. Stubby had placed himself near the three young ladies, whom he eyed with adoring glances, and somehow none of the prisoners regarded this childish young fellow in exactly the same light as they did his comrades.
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