They wentgointo the parlour my mother had comecomefrom , the firefirein the best room on the other side of the passage not being lighted -- not having been lighted , indeed , since my father ’s funeralfuneral; and when they were both seatedseat, and Miss Betsey said nothing , my mother , after vainly tryingtryto restrain herself , began to crycry.
“ I want to go , I want to go , ” saidsayAnnie , beginning to crycry.
Involuntarily the boy gave a gasping crycryand awokeawaketo swamp and night and firefire, while a white face , drawn , red-eyed , peeredpeeroutward from some hidden throng within the cabin .
But the creatures ranrunoff a second time , before I could seize them ; whereupon there was a great shoutshoutin a very shrill accent , and after it ceasedceaseI heardhearone of them crycryaloud _ Tolgo phonac _ ; when in an instant I feltfeelabove a hundred arrows dischargeddischargeon my left hand , which , prickedprickme like so many needles ; and besides , they shotshootanother flightflightinto the air , as we do bombs in Europe , whereof many , I suppose , fell on my body , ( though I felt them not ) , and some on my face , which I immediately coveredcoverwith my left hand .
At such a time I foundfindout for certain that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard ; and that Philip Pirrip , late of this parish , and also Georgiana wife of the above , were dead and buried ; and that Alexander , Bartholomew , Abraham , Tobias , and Roger , infant children of the aforesaid , were also dead and buried ; and that the dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard , intersected with dikes and mounds and gates , with scattered cattle feedingfeedon it , was the marshes ; and that the low leaden line beyond was the river ; and that the distant savage lair from which the windwindwas rushing was the sea ; and that the small bundle of shivers growing afraidafraidof it all and beginning to crycry, was Pip .
A crycryinside hurriedhurryme into a room , which appeared to serve as an armoury .
The result was , that , after a few strugglesstruggle, Oliver breathedbreathe, sneezedsneeze, and proceeded to advertiseadvertiseto the inmates of the workhouse the fact of a new burden having been imposedimposeupon the parish , by setting up as loud a crycryas could reasonably have been expected from a male infant who had not been possessed of that very useful appendage , a voice , for a much longer space of time than three minutes and a quarter .