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"Yes, sar; all de folks to home; jes' gwine to lunch. I spects dey all wery glad to see Massa 'Ratio and Massa Christy. Walk in, sar; took a seat in de parlor; and I done reckon we call Massa Homer and de rest ob de folks afore you gits to sleep in yer char, thar," said Pedro, as he scurried out of the room where he had shown the visitors.
Then in another forty years or so another war will come and they will chop them all down again. On the whole I'm rather glad I don't live on this continent." The trains which were expected had not begun to arrive yet, so with two companions I sat on a bench at the back of the station, waiting. Facing us was a line of houses. One, the corner house, was a big black char.
It was a kind of sardine or Boston Elevated effect, and by the time we reached Rouen, twenty-four hours later, we had kinks in our legs and corns on our elbows. Also we were hungry, having had nothing but bully beef and biscuits. We made "char", which is trench slang for tea, in the station, and after two hours moved up the line again, this time in real coaches.
Several of the men, including myself, were squatted around a brazier cooking char and getting warm, for the nights were cold, when there was a terrific explosion. Investigation proved that an unexploded bomb had been buried under the brazier, and that it had gone off as the heat penetrated the ground.
Madame Tube was now so much recovered, that she wished to return to Dresden. Raphael longed to see his Jacot, which had been left in Master Teuzer's charge; and Madelaine felt anxious to return to school, and to her occupation of painting. Consequently, early in the following week was fixed for their departure. On the appointed day the char-
Had von Goss substitute the body of a dead Negress and char it after putting Lady Greystoke's rings on it Lady G will be of more value to the High Command alive than dead." "She lives!" cried Tarzan. "Thank God!" exclaimed Capell. "And now?" "I will return with you, of course. How terribly I have wronged Miss Canby, but how could I know?
The coachman, or rather the guide, for the man who was driving the char
I think they are, and I'll take care to keep 'em so; for I confess, Sir, I would fain have a Hero to my Grandson. Char. You never saw the Emperor of the Moon, Sir, the mighty Iredonozar? Doct. Never, Sir; his Court I have, but 'twas confusedly too. Char. Refine your Thoughts, Sir, by a Moment's Prayer, and try again. Char. claps the Glass with the Emperor on it, he looks in and sees it. Doct.
"Well, to drop that, what do you propose to do about this? You're a good chap, Tom, when you aren't making an ass of yourself; but I'm hanged if I'm going to have you interfering between me and Dolly." "Miss Burn." Another pause. "Look here," said Dick. "Cards on the table. I've loved her since last Commem." "So have I." "We went up the Char together in a Canader. Alone."
"The story! the story!" exclaimed several, who were amused by the incoherent chattering of the artist. "Here it is," said the latter, sitting upright in his char,; and paying no heed to his friend's warnings. "The scene takes place in a little court in Germany Eh!" said he, looking at Gerfaut and maliciously winking his eye "do you not think that is glossed over?"
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