Capitolo 25
suffocating.
"You have to take a small water", Elma murmured, while pouring out the
last few they allow to fall for him in the cup of can--for Cyril you/he/she had brought a
small whole bottle that morning for his/her painting as a packet
of sandwiches for lunch. "You are very tired. I can see Your
lips have burnt and they dry with digging him/it."
You were him turns pale as the death, and its his/her own eyes were livid, for from
this duration she had fairly abdicated to every hope of liberation; and, besides,
the air in the tunnel was so ugly and stunning, she was not able really
you speak; indeed, his/her clung of the language to his/her palate. But she poured out
the last drops in the cup for Cyril and it held imploringly them on,
with a gesture of supplication. These two was not extraneous to one
another hour. They had started to know well each other in those twelve
long times of deadly danger divided in common.
Cyril waved apart the cup with a fixed air of dissent.
"No, no", he said, weakly, "you have to drink him/it You. Your need
it is greater than mine far."
Elma tried to put him/it street to turn, but Cyril would not allow her/it.
Then she dampened his/her mouth with those last scarce drops, and it turned
toward him with gratitude.
"There is not now any hope" gone away, she said, in a voice very resigned.
"We have to decide us to die where we am standing. But I thank her,
oh, so a lot I thank him/it, so sincerely."
Cyril, for his/her part you/he/she could not find really breath to speak.
"Thanks", he gasped out, in a last despaired effort. "Things
you seem very black; but while there is being the life there is hope. They can equalize
anchor, comes above perhaps with us."
As he spoke, a sound broke to the sudden one on the silence of them
jail. A dull thud seemed to make himself/herself/themselves weakly felt from over
the thick wall of sand that the road has cut them from the daylight. Cyril
fixed with surprise. It was a noise as a choose-ax. Bending himself/herself/itself
with hurry down, he placed his/her ear against the bar close to the they smashed