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They retired to the remote "Allee of the Acacias," and solemnly took their airing away from the bustle of the new world, incidentally setting a fashion that has held good to this day; the lakeside being now deserted, and the "Acacias" crowded of an afternoon, by all that Paris holds of elegant and inelegant. Where the brilliant Second Empire failed, the Republic had little chance of success.
Bimeby whitepeller yabber like-it, 'Chinaman berry good'-yabber likeit, 'Comenavadrink, John' yabber like-it, 'Chinaman brother b'long-a whitepeller. You savvy, John?" "Lak-hi-lo-hen-slung!" carolled a third Chow disdainfully. "You go hellee shut up! Eulopean allee sem plully whool! Lum-la-no-sunhi-me!"
He's the chap as come aboard yesterday." "Yes," I panted as I sat up, breathing painfully, "it's Ching. He's our friend." "Yes, flend, evelibody fiend," cried Ching. "Wantee go shore. Fancee shop." "Go ashore?" said the officer. "Yes, walkee shore." "But if I set you ashore amongst that howling mob, they'll cut you to pieces." "Ching 'flaid so. Allee bad man. Wantee kill young offlicer."
He owned a fine four-storied house in the Fürsten allee, with his open shop in front on the sign of which peaceful lions were painted in gold holding rolls and cakes between their teeth. Mr. Fromm himself was waiting for us outside his shop door, and hastened to open the carriage door himself.
Don't they look fine? One choc'late loaf, two caramel layers, and one white square one. Looks like a graveyard with them all set even in a row, doesn't it? There ought to be three frosting pans to lick." "I don't see a single any," remarked Allee, poking into every nook and cranny in hope of finding their treat. "I guess she licked them all herself."
She and Allee would have more than enough fire-crackers for the whole family, even if grandpa did not buy a single bunch himself, and of course he would do his part to make the day a grand success.
There certainly was Colonel Pendleton, in spotless evening dress; erect, flashing, and indignant; his aquiline nose lifted like a hawk's beak over his quarry, his iron-gray moustache, now white and waxed, parted like a swallow's tail over his handsome mouth, and between him and the astounded "Direction" stood the apparition of the Allee George! There was no mistaking him now.
A white gown shot out of the door opposite them, and terrified Peace threw herself into the woman's arms, demanding again, "What is Allee? Is she dead?" "No, dear," he hastily assured her, provoked to think he had frightened the child so badly; "only ill quarantined for scarlet fever." "Scarlet fever!" gasped the girl. "That's what killed Myrtle Perry. Oh, will Allee die, too?
Roland was waiting for them and listened to what had taken place. "What did I tell you?" he asked. They requested him to name the time and place. He selected seven o'clock in the evening in the Allee de la Muette. No one had spoken of the pistols. The young men proposed to get them at an armorer's. "No," said Roland, "Sir John has an excellent pair of duelling pistols which I have already used.
"Of course we have watchful eyes in our boat, but I don't see anything yet worth watching." "He means that very likely there are friends of the pirates in one of these boats, and that we had better begin shooting, so as to take off attention from our real purpose." "Yes, allee same; p'laps pilate fliend in lit' boat go and tell Queen Victolia foleign devil sailor boy come catchee."
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