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'You may imagine with what interest I listened. All these details were perceived to have some significance twenty-four hours later. In the morning Cornelius made no allusion1 to the events of the night. "I suppose you will come back to my poor house," he muttered surlily, slinking up just as Jim was entering the canoe to go over to Doramin's campong. Jim only nodded, without looking at him. "You find it good fun, no doubt," muttered the other in a sour tone. Jim spent the day with the old nakhoda, preaching the necessity of vigorous action to the principal men of the Bugis community, who had been summoned for a big talk. He remembered with pleasure how very eloquent2 and persuasive3 he had been. "I managed to put some backbone4 into them that time, and no mistake," he said. Sherif Ali's last raid had swept the outskirts5 of the settlement, and some women belonging to the town had been carried off to the stockade6. Sherif Ali's emissaries had been seen in the market-place the day before, strutting7 about haughtily8 in white cloaks, and boasting of the Rajah's friendship for their master. One of them stood forward in the shade of a tree, and, leaning on the long barrel of a rifle, exhorted9 the people to prayer and repentance10, advising them to kill all the strangers in their midst, some of whom, he said, were infidels and others even worse -- children of Satan in the guise11 of Moslems. It was reported that several of the Rajah's people amongst the listeners had loudly expressed their
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allusion
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backbone
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outskirts
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stockade
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haughtily
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repentance
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approbation
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jovial
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squeaks
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crouch
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jaw
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perfectly
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contemplated
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abject
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callousness
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slumbers
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brass
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resounding
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conflagration
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apparition
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persistent
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narrating
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alacrity
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aperture
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descending
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deception
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buffaloes
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brute
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repulsive
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proceedings
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possessed
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spunk
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thumping
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rustle
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sobbing
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affected
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insistence
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astonishment
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turmoil
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fortitude
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