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Goin' to Sunda Straits, which p'raps you know, sar, is nigh a hundred miles fro' here." "And what may you be going to do there?" asked Nigel. "Goin' home to Krakatoa." "Why, I thought that was an uninhabited island. I passed close to it on my way here, and saw no sign of inhabitants." "Dat's cause I was absint fro' home. An' massa he keeps indoors a good deal."
We soon found ourselves permanently settled in our own home, to the great joy of Mrs. O'Flaherty, who still retained her position as house-keeper. "Indade, me daar misthress," said she, "an' it's good to see yees at home agin; for wasn't this the lonesom place whiles ye was absint."
Goin' to Sunda Straits, which p'raps you know, sar, is nigh a hundred miles fro' here." "And what may you be going to do there?" asked Nigel. "Goin' home to Krakatoa." "Why, I thought that was an uninhabited island. I passed close to it on my way here, and saw no sign of inhabitants." "Da's cause I was absint fro' home. An' massa he keeps indoors a good deal."
He moved heavily down the stairs, and we breathed relief. "Too muchee Pernoud!" Fung Wah commented. "No, Fung Wah, you've sized 'im wrong," answered Lying Bill. "'E's seein' things. 'E's put enough absint' down his throat, but 'he's proper used to that. Let's take the matter up, an' consider it like ol' Raoul, the lawyer, did when Murray killed the gendarme at Areu.
"Madam, I'm not afraid of any Lutetia as ever wore apron, but to go to Paris to be drugged with absint, and put away in a third-class waiting-room like a package I couldn't madam, not even if I have to leave your service." Mrs. Greyne recognised that the episode of the valet had struck home to the lady's maid. "But you will not leave my side." "They will absint you, madam."
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