Their features were marked by ferocious indifference to danger or pity.

One of them, as he assisted in thrusting the coffin into the cavity provided for it, said, "I'll be damned if I think the poor dog was quite dead.

It wasn't the _fever_ that ailed him, but the sight of the girl and her mother on the floor.

I wonder how they all got into that room.

What carried them there ?" The other surlily muttered, "Their legs, to-be-sure." "But what should they hug together in one room for ?" "To save us trouble, to-be-sure." "And I thank them with all my heart; but, damn it, it wasn't right to put him in his coffin before the breath was fairly gone.