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Shall I go?" Mr. Guppy nods and gives him a "lucky touch" on the back, but not with the washed hand, though it is his right hand. He goes downstairs, and Mr. Guppy tries to compose himself before the fire for waiting a long time. But in no more than a minute or two the stairs creak and Tony comes swiftly back. "Have you got them?" "Got them! No. The old man's not there."
A guard was posted there, and probably ordered to stand at the edge of the stream, but it smelled so vilely in those scorching days that he had consulted his feelings and probably his health, by retiring to the top of the bank, a rod or more distant. We watched night after night, and at last were gratified to find that none went nearer the Creak than the top of this bank.
At something after that stilly one-o'clock hour when all the sleeping noises of lath and wainscoting creak out, John Burkhardt lifted his head to the moving light of a lamp held like a torch over him, even the ridge of his body completely submerged beneath the great feather billow of an oceanic walnut bedstead. "Yes, Hanna?" "Wake up!" "I been awake "
But there was no halt; the material for the second section had been assembled, meanwhile, and the traveler began to swing it into place. The din was unceasing; the clash of riveters, the creak and rattle of hoists, the shouts of men mingled in a persistent, ear- splitting clamor; and foot by foot the girders reached out toward the second monolith which rose from the river-bed.
Up I went with a glance at every step for the table which now hid the brute's form from me, and never a creak did I wake out of that staircase till I was almost at the first landing, when my toe caught a loose stair-rod, and rattled it in a way that stopped my heart for a moment, and then set it going in double-quick time. I stood still, with a hand on the rail.
Will you be clemmed, or will you be worried? Now clemming is a quiet death, and worrying isn't, so I choose clemming, and come into th' Union. But I'd wish they'd leave me free, if I am a fool." Creak, creak, went the stairs. Her father was coming down at last. Yes, he came down, but more doggedly fierce than before, and made up for his journey, too; with his little bundle on his arm.
The movements of the craft now rapidly grew more lively; she heeled still more steeply under the pressure of the wind; the splash and rush of water alongside grew momentarily more confused; bulkheads began to creak, and cabin-doors to jar and rattle upon their hooks; the two people overhead began to pace the deck to and fro; the wind whistled and blustered with increasing loudness through the rigging; and as the craft plunged more sharply I caught the sound of an occasional clatter of spray upon the deck forward.
"That dog does want to be friends with me, but I can't have him here," thought Tom, who now opened his door as quietly as he could, but it gave a loud creak, so did one of the boards, as he walked towards the staircase. "That you, Tom?" came from his uncle's room. "Yes, uncle." "There's a dog making a miserable noise. Try and drive it away." "Just going to, uncle," said Tom.
And the tiny noise was followed by the creak of a basket chair. "Don't you think you're a little better to-night?" said Mrs. Armine. The other sighed. "No." "Doctor Baring Hartley said you would recover rapidly." "Ruby, he doesn't understand my case. He can't understand it." "But he seemed so certain. And he's got a great reputation in America." "But he doesn't understand.
"It won't break my 'art if you don't," replied Liffie; "no, nor yet yours." "Speak for yourself, young 'ooman. You don't know nothing about my 'art." As he spoke, a heavy foot was heard at the bottom of the stair. "That's our lodger," said Liffie; "no foot but his can bang the stair or make it creak like that." "Well, I'm off," cried Billy, descending two steps at a time.
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