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"But his comrade is a traitor and a villain!" objected the Fiend, at the top of his harsh voice "Comprenez-vous; votre ami est UN SALOP!" he snarled at me. He seems afraid that I don't get his idea, I said to myself. "I understand what you say," I assured him. "And you don't believe it?" he screamed, showing his fangs and otherwise looking like an exceedingly dangerous maniac.
"Mais mais " he puffed and panted like a very old and fat person trying to persuade a bicycle to climb a hill "mais vous avez de la chance!" "I suppose I have," I said without enthusiasm. "Mais mais parfaitement vous avez de la chance uh-ah uh-ah parceque comprenez-vous votre camarade ah-ah a attrape prison!" "Uh-ah!" I said wearily. "Whereas," continued Monsieur, "you haven't.
"Mais non," he retorted, annoyed at my dullness to comprehend. "We were saved comprenez-vous? for there, to starboard, lay Su-Tum-Tum as plain as a sheep's nose." "England? Impossible!" I returned. "Mais parfaitement!" he declared, with a hopeless gesture. "Su-Tum-Tum," he reiterated slowly for my benefit. "Never heard of it," I replied.
Ah, my good Captain of Hussars, I have made you my honorary aide-de-camp and a member of my family so that I may keep an eye on you. Comprenez-vous?" He said it with a laugh and another hearty hand-clap on my shoulder, and I would fain take it for a jest.
Tom essayed his explanation again, but whether the youthful female in the window could or would not understand, she kept repeating in the midst of his every sentence "Je ne parle pas anglais," till Tom lost his temper. "Bien, my fine girl," he exclaimed at last; "I am going to enter this house. If you won't open the door, I will batter it down. Understand? Comprenez-vous?"
If I want to I can make him turn a somersault, believe me.” He shoved his fat hand a little farther along, as if it were some dangerous engine and his solitaire a signal lamp. “I can make the whole pack of you dance whenever I want to. Can’t I, sweetheart? Capito? Comprenez-vous?” Eleanore looked into Alfons Diruf’s smeary eyes with unspeakable amazement.
"Well, turn the thing over in this new light," continued his brother, pleasantly. "And one thing more a little suggestion: you have some notion of the man who comes before Monsieur X; give a bit of attention, now, to the man who comes after. He could be of the greatest service to us permanent service. Comprenez-vous? Find him; find Monsieur Y and arrange it that he shall be the last!"
But even as she watched her the woman placed the candles, all seven of them, in a sort of a branched candlestick on the wall above her head. "Non! Non!" cried Patty; "they are MINE, MINE! comprenez-vous? Mine!" "Oui, oui, oui," exclaimed the Frenchwoman, nodding her head complacently, and taking Patty's money, which she put in a box on the table before her. "But I want them!" cried Patty.
The under-dress was a very pale blue satin, brocaded with silver, of which my sleeves were likewise made; the fashion of the costume was copied from sundry pictures of Titian and Paul Veronese the pointed body, cut square over the bosom and shoulders, with a full white muslin shirt drawn round my neck, and wide white sleeves within the large blue and silver brocade ones. Comprenez-vous all this?
"Who the devil are you?" demanded Marble, kicking harder than ever." Open the cabin-doors, or I'll kick them down, and yourself overboard." "Monsieur sair," rejoined another voice, "tenez you air prisonnier. Comprenez-vous prisonair, eh?" "These are Frenchmen, Captain Marble," I exclaimed, "and we are in the hands of the enemy."
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