Dimly from somewhere he heard two or three human voices exclaim, "All right!"

"Now that puts a different shine on things," exclaimed a voice from the clearing's edge.

It was then he heard a voice exclaim "Valentine is dead!"

He was about to step into the doorway behind him when a voice exclaimed, "Oh, my God!"

I never heard such nonsense in my life,' exclaimed a voice.

"She must be better," several voices exclaimed as the woman was carried from the dwelling.

"They never heard of voodoo over there in Europe," another voice exclaimed, shouting down the first.

But before he could ask permission to attempt to make talk in a more sophisticated fashion, voices exclaimed all over the ship.

For a moment there was absolute silence before a voice exclaimed, "It's a boy!"

Here several voices exclaimed that the bet was lost.