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"What is it!" he asked, pausing in his paddling. "If you saas a rid gintleman do yez jist rist till I takes aim and shoots him." "Why so blood-thirsty?" "Not blood-thirsty, but tobaccy thirsty. The haythen deal in the article, and if we saas one he must yield."
"Ah, you stupid creature; maybe you're not the real steward. What's your name?" "Smith, ma'am." "Ah, I thought so; go away, man, go away." This injunction, given in a diminuendo cadence, was quickly obeyed, and all was silence for a moment or two. Once more was I dropping asleep, when the same voice as before burst out with "Am I to die here like a haythen, and nobody to come near me?
Holy Mother! but ye ought to be 'shamed to be a Swade, ye miserable, slab-sided haythen." "My name ban Swanson; it ban all right, hey?" "Swanson! Swanson! Oh, ye poor benighted, ignorant foreigner!" and Mike straightened up, slapping his chest proudly. "Jist ye look at me, now! Oi'm an O'Brien, do ye moind that? An O'Brien!
"Do you think I'd tell him what the party was for? What does the poor man know about christenings? and him, God help him, a haythen of a Jew. Make your mind easy, Miss; it'll just be a party to him. No more than that." "But he all of them will see Father Burke," Miss Bailey urged. "And who could they see that would do them more good?" demanded Mrs. Diamantstein belligerently. "Cock them up then.
He sat on his bench in the Kitchen, a sunny idol in a shrine, indifferent to the effect his background gave him. His mouth puckered. He put up his leather stained hand coyly, and motioned her unmoving figure back. "Ah, go 'way! Wasn't it to escape you and the likes of you that I made me retrate to the shore? Nayther white, full haythen, half, nor quarther nade apply.
"A haythen Chinee under this respected roof where there's been none but Christian Ransoms for generations back!" "There, there!" said her master soothingly. "Your motherly heart would never turn away a poor orphan from our door!" But Mrs. Barbara sniffed herself out of the room, and it was weeks before she reconciled herself to the new and disagreeable prospect.
A white bearskin and walrus tusk told of an early venture into the frozen North, when bold men were first drawn to its darkness and mystery; while the Buddha from an Eastern temple, squatting shut-eyed on a shelf, roused good old Brother Bart into holy horror. "I never thought to be under the same roof with a haythen idol.
I was going to obsarve that ye had been mighty lucky to send in your two pistol-shots just where they settled the business, though I s'pose the haythen was so close on ye whin ye fired that ye almost shoved the weapon into his carcass." "I shot him, Mickey, before I fairly started to run, but he didn't mind it any more than if I spit in his face. It was your own shot that did the business."
Our two friends started at once after them. On reaching the edge of the Clearing Teddy asked, abruptly: "If the haythen comes back to the cabin while we's be gone?" "Impossible! he cannot." "Spowsen he hides his track in that manner, he may take a notion to gobble up the little boy." "He would not dare " Nevertheless, the remark of his servant alarmed the missionary, and he hesitated.
O'Shaughnessy made him at home and fixed such a tempting supper for him that I am sure he was glad of the chance to stay. He was very decidedly English, and powerfully proud of it. He asked Mrs. O'Shaughnessy if she was Irish and she said, "No, ye haythen, it's Chinese Oi am. Can't yez tell it be me Cockney accint?" Mr. Boutwell looked very much surprised.
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