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In the mere wantonness of an unalloyed prosperity you say to the saffron nobleman nearest your door, "Bring me a pitcher of ice-water, quick, please!" and you do not find the half-hour that he is gone very long.
Whether it was the change from the boat, or the talk of the ghost, none could say. At any rate there were uneasy turnings from side to side, and as each cot squeaked in a different key, and as one or the other was constantly "singing," the result may be imagined. "Oh, dear!" exclaimed Grace, impatiently, after a half-hour of comparative quiet, "I know I'll never get to sleep.
Across the court, in the chamber over the archway, some one was playing very prettily upon a mandolin. In spite of the cold I stepped to the outer door to listen, and stood there gazing out upon the thick-falling snow, busy with my thoughts. Yes, decidedly Marc'antonio's manner had been strange. . . . While I stood there, a clock, down in the city, chimed out the half-hour.
Yet he was almost positive though search alone would set at rest the last misgiving that only one sampan had visited the island. Evidently the Dyaks were unprepared as he for the events of the preceding half-hour.
I was not at all certain of my bearings, but I felt that the sun must certainly have crossed the meridian that the eternity of suffering through which I had passed could never have been compressed into a short half-hour or so and if I was correct in this surmise the hour must be somewhere about three o'clock in the afternoon. Three o'clock in the afternoon!
Another half-hour and the craft would have foundered under us; and the frigate would certainly have captured the Sea-horse and one of the prizes if the Frenchman had not, as he thought, seen two privateers at work emptying our hold. He is a sharp young fellow, that." "That he is," the major agreed.
The strangeness of the laugh told him more than anything else the tension he had been under. Another half-hour, and he came up out of the dip behind Sokwenna's cabin and tried the door. It was locked. A voice answered his knock, and he called out his name. The bolt shot back, the door opened, and he stepped in. Nawadlook stood at her bedroom door, a gun in her hands.
The second was from New York: "Deal off come to New York immediately Carhart." Within a week things had happened. Hamil quarrelled furiously and violently defended his scheme. He was summoned to New York and spent a bad half-hour on the carpet in Peter Carhart's office.
The atmosphere was thick and heavy as soured milk. A half-hour between endless walls of banana plants brought me to a palm-leaf hut, from which I splashed away on foot through a riot of wet jungle to the famous ruins of Quiragua.
"There is the half-hour striking, and you have lost all this time," said the caressing mother, her fingers lost in the bright locks she lifted. "Never mind, mother mine," said she, turning in elfish mood to brush her lips across the frustrated fingers.
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