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How should she pe seeing with all ta earth apove her and ta cravestone too tat I know my poy Malcolm will pe laying on ta top of his old cranfather to keep him waarm, and let peoples pe know tat ta plind piper will be lying town pelow wite awake and fery uncomfortable?" "Excuse me, Mr MacPhail, but that's all a mistake," said Mr Graham positively.
As for Fraser, he looked before him on the table. "He is here to bear a little testimony in my favour, my lord, which I think it very needful you should hear," said I, and turned to Duncansby. "I have only to say this," said the lieutenant, "that I stood up this day with Palfour in the Hunter's Pog, which I am now fery sorry for, and he behaved himself as pretty as a shentlemans could ask it.
"It looks bad, I confess," answered Dechamp, as they paced to and fro in a retired part of the camp; "but you must remember that your two eyes are not your two ears, and that you heard nothing that you could understand." "Fery true, Dechamp. But the language of the eye is sometimes as clear and understandable as the language of the ear.
On this being translated, Nazinred seemed content, and began to examine his hurt, which by good fortune was a slight one. "It might have been worse," remarked Mowat gravely; "I've seen many a man in this country with a short allowance of finger-joints from the same cause." "What you observe is fery true, Tonal'," said the trader, with a serious air, "it might have been worse.
"He's not a bit queer," said Hughie, stoutly. "He is the best, best, best boy in all the world." "Indeed! how extraordinary!" said Maimie; "you wouldn't think so to look at him." "I think he is just splendid," said Hughie; "don't you, mother?" "Indeed, he is fery brown whatever," mocked Maimie, mimicking Ranald's Highland tongue, a trick at which she was very clever, "and not just fery clean."
Our ot'er customers haf followed heem like sheep! Eet iss as t'ough we had lost our star!" "Your star?" "In t'e guide-book off Monsieur Karl," Pelletan explained. "Is that such a tragedy?" "I haf always t'ought it t'e fery worst t'at could happen," said Pelletan, "but t'is iss as pad." It was only by a supreme effort that Rushford managed to choke back the chuckle which rose in his throat.
"But what has it all to do with your name? I declare I don't know what to call you." "Call her your own pard, old Tuncan MacPhail, my sweet laty, and haf ta patience with her, and she'll pe telling you aall apout eferyting, only you must gif her olt prams time to tumple temselfs apout. Her head grows fery stupid.
"It vill do me fery well. Dere iss nod much to see out here." "I know," said Wampus. "But Herr Gabert. What happen to him?" Again there was a pause. Then the German said slowly: "I am nod rich; but efery year I send a leetle money to Stuttgart to put some flowers on Herr Gabert's grave." The chauffeur's face brightened. He got up from his chair and solemnly shook Dan'l's hand.
"But to refuse a Prince!" murmured Pelletan. "Eet iss somet'ing unheard of!" "It will make you famous! It's a big ad for the house! 'The Grand Hôtel Royal refuses to receive the Prince of Zeit-Zeit. Think what a stir that will make! Besides, you have no choice I require it!" "Fery well, monsieur," agreed Pelletan, with a gesture of despairing obedience. "T'ere iss one t'ing more I haf an idea."
"Thirty pieces of silver wass a fery small reward for such a dirty deed, and him one of the Chief's tail too; it wass a mistake to be trusting to fisher folk instead of Glen's men. "There iss something I hef wished," concluded Janet, who seemed to have given her mind to the whole incident, "that Peter or some other man had drawn his skean-dhu and slippit it quietly into Judas.
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