Don't make a noise." "But--" "No, no; don't stop.

We don't know what it is.

Perhaps it's one of those things Hicky talks about that he has heard sometimes." "Father says it's all nonsense, and there are no such things in the fens." "He'd better say there are no will-o'-the-wisps to lead people astray," whispered Tom.
"He doesn't say that.

He says there are jack-o'-lanterns, but they don't lead people astray--people go astray to try and catch them." "Hist! there it is again!" said Tom, gripping his companion's arm, as the long piteous cry came faintly over the water.

"It is something horrible!" "It isn't," said Dick.