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As it was, it was touch and go wi' Angus; for they were the bonny pipes, the grand, bonny pipes." "Do you mean to tell me, you would have murdered your brother for a skirling, screeching bagpipes?" I asked in horror. "Och! hardly that, man. Murder is no' a bonny name for it. I would just kind o' quietly have done awa' wi' him.
She had never before seen mirth, except, of course, childish and schoolgirl play, that had not in it something that hurt her taste and jarred on her feeling as much as did Ida's screeching laughter in comparison with the soft ripplings of these young matrons. Still, little Michael was her chief delight, and she could hardly be detached from him.
Down towards the river a sleigh was making its way over the thin snow of spring, and screeching on the stones. Some late revellers, moving homewards from the Trois Couronnes, were roaring at the top of their voices the habitant chanson, 'Le Petit Roger Bontemps': "For I am Roger Bontemps, Gai, gai, gai! With drink I am full and with joy content, Gai, gaiment!"
They had commenced firing Hale's rockets while we were in advance pursuing the enemy, and a couple of these screeching projectiles had actually passed over my head. We had neither eaten nor drunk since the preceding evening, with the exception of some water that we had procured from a stream at the extreme limit of the pursuit; where we had lost the enemy, who had scattered in the forest.
What happened next I can no more set down consecutively than I can distinguish the parts in a confused picture with a red-eyed fury striking at me, naked Indians brandishing war-clubs, flashes of powder smoke, a circle of gesticulating, screeching dark faces in the background, my Indian fighting like a very fiend, and a pale-faced woman with a little curly-headed boy at her feet standing against the woods.
Doors was slamming, dogs growling and rattling their chains, and all the devils a-screaming. They come a-charging; the snakes was hissing sharp and wiry; the beasts howled long and mournful, and thunder rolled up overhead, and the imps was yelling and screeching like they was mad. "It was time to break for timber, sure, and I run as if a wounded buffalo was raising my shirt with his horns.
This is far better than the old-fashioned prescription of cats on the tiles." It struck me the noise was distinctly louder than before; this applied both to the tick, tick, tick, and the screeching. "Possibly," I told myself, as I relighted the gas, "the explosion is to come off this time." I turned to look at the box. There could be no doubt about it; the noise was louder.
With the brakes still screeching, he tumbled off and ran to the door, calling to Tressa. The Indian slipped through behind him. "Girl no here." Torrance whirled, every nerve tingling, fresh fears tumbling through his brain. "Out in woods with young brave," continued the Indian, shrugging. "No watch time." The contractor struck a match and lit the lamp.
The ramshackle old wooden church had been dear to them, had even remained dear to them after the railroad had laid down its tracks under their very eaves; but they were fretted by the crudely caustic comments of strangers coming to the town, and they were still more fretted when the puffing, screeching Sunday trains drowned the voice of the good old rector whose mannerly traditions forbade his puffing and screeching in his turn.
My heart fails and my head runs round. Look at the dark one. It was a terrible night that when she came to Redcleugh. My wife, who now lies in Deathscroft, down among the elms yonder, could not sleep for the screeching of the owls, as if every horned devil of them shouted woe! woe! to the house of Redcleugh." "Nonsense, Francis, omens all nonsense," I said, interrupting him.
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