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The thing that surprises me is, that you and I cannot agree, similar as we are in temperament, and playing for the long odds, both of us. My failure is, perhaps, too great a passion for sport, aha! Well, 'tis a pity you won't try and live on the benevolent principle. I am indeed kind to them who commiserate my condition. I give them all they want, aha! Hem! Try and not believe in me now, aha!
Perrichet was a young, thick-set man, with, a red, fair face, and a moustache and hair so pale in colour that they were almost silver. He came into the room with an air of importance. "Aha!" said Hanaud, with a malicious smile. "You went to bed late last night, my friend. Yet you were up early enough to read the newspaper. Well, I am to have the honour of being associated with you in this case."
"Aye," said Beltane grimly; "at moonrise!" and scowling he turned away. "Aha!" quoth Giles, nudging Roger with roguish elbow, "it worketh, Roger, it worketh!" "Aye, Giles, it worketh so well that an my master get his hands on this singing fellow then woe betide this singing fellow, say I."
Christopher laughed: "Aha!" said he, "then am I some faraway cousin of Dr. Knowall when the whole tale is told: forsooth I can lead thee thither; but tell me, what shall I do of valiant deeds at the Long Pools? for there is no fire-drake nor effit, nay, nor no giant, nor guileful dwarf, nought save mallard and coot, heron and bittern; yea, and ague-shivers to boot."
Aha! you want to increase the sale of your Journal, do you, my boy? The rogue!" With which, and a light slap over Carlo's shoulder, Agostino left him. The aspect of his own futile proposals stared the young man in the face too forcibly for him to nurse the spark of resentment which was struck out in the turmoil of his bosom.
"Aha!" he said to himself, "I think I see my dinner!" and with a great swoop down he pounced. You could hardly think how anything which looked so lazy and quiet could dart so like a flash of lightning. But a gull is an air-ship that can sink whenever it chooses. And when he gives a fish a sudden invitation to step in for dinner, the fish is hardly able to refuse.
Hugo and Humphrey were also early astir, the serving-man performing his morning tasks with such a particularly cheerful air that Hugo smiled and inquired, "Hadst thou a dream last night?" "Ay," answered Humphrey, in triumph. "I say not with that little spy, 'Aha, Fortune! thou art with me, and then go out to meet a hedgehog.
Then the little man said, "As I see you have a good heart I grant you three wishes, one for each farthing, they shall all be fulfilled." "Aha?" said the servant, "you are one of those who can work wonders!
Yefim's cheeks are rosy and his eyes are shining, and there is a peculiar keenness in his glance, as though he were seeing right through the hut and the doctor. "Come, what is it? What are you thinking about?" says the doctor, bending down to him. "Aha! have you had this long?" "What? Dying, your honour, my hour has come. . . . I am not to stay among the living." "Don't talk nonsense!
"Give me back the papers, then!" "Aha! Will you wait and discuss them with the guard, or go at once?" The Armenian clerk didn't answer, but got up and slunk away. "Why did you let that fool go?" demanded Yussuf Dakmar. "Now he will awaken some officer and start hue and cry with a story that we robbed him. Listen! There comes the guard! We had better both run!" "Not so fast!" Grim answered.
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