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"The trees and the creepers marked him, Little Brother, and made him the striped thing that we see. Never again would he eat their fruit; but from that day he revenged himself upon the deer, and the others, the Eaters of Grass," said Baloo. "Then THOU knowest the tale. Heh? Why have I never heard?" "Because the Jungle is full of such tales.
"Merciful Heaven! she must have been upset, and has gone down in the squall," said Mynheer Barentz. "I thought as much, carrying such a press of sail. There never was a ship that could carry more than the Vrow Katerina. It was madness on the part of the captain of that vessel; but I suppose he wished to keep up with us. Heh, Mynheer Vanderdecken?"
"Yes," replied the corporal, grinding his teeth at this insult to his betrothed, "yes, Mynheer, I will recollect that. Mein Gott! I shall not forget it." "Kill my dog, heh!" continued Vanslyperken, talking to himself aloud. "Yes, yes, Frau Vandersloosh, you shall fret to some purpose. I'll worry down your fat for you. Yes, yes, Madam Vandersloosh, you shall bite your nails to the quick yet.
Nevertheless I went on, "You smiled to see your spite succeed. You smiled to see that poor child driven hence by your contriving; you smiled to see your broken snares avenged. And you were following after her no doubt to tell her all this and to smile again. This is all so, it is not?" "Heh! By Bacchus!" said he for the third time, and at that my patience gave out utterly.
"Well, sir," replied I, nettled at his answer, "at all events you will have the goodness to pay us our fare. We have lost our wherry, and our liberty, perhaps, through you; we may as well have our two guineas." "Two guineas! It's two guineas you want, heh." "Yes, sir, that was the fare we agreed upon."
Jeanrenaud exerts over M. d'Espard, who, indeed, sees her very seldom; nor account for his strange affection for the said Baron Jeanrenaud, Major with whom he has but little intercourse. And yet their power is so considerable, that whenever they need money, if only to gratify a mere whim, this lady, or her son Heh, heh! No reason even such as morality and the law concur in disapproving!
"I was never more comfortable in my life," said John. "Mrs. Bixbee has been kindness itself, and even permits me to smoke in the room. Let me give you a cigar." "Heh! You got putty well 'round Polly, I reckon," said David, looking around the room as he lighted the cigar, "an' I'm glad you're comf'table I reckon 't is a shade better 'n the Eagle," he remarked, with his characteristic chuckle.
Tillie alone went on with her work, no sign in her white, still face of the passion of terror in her heart at her own unspeakable boldness. Suddenly two resounding slaps on the ears of Sammy and Sally, followed by their sharp screams of pain and fright, broke the tense stillness. "Who tole you to stop workin', heh?" demanded their father, fiercely. "Leave me see you at it, do you hear?
"No," returned Patches easily, "I am certainly not going not just at present and," he added thoughtfully, "if I were you, I wouldn't try to start anything." Something in the extraordinary self-possession of this soft-spoken stranger made the big man hesitate. "Oh, you wouldn't, heh?" he returned. "You mean, I s'pose, that you propose to interfere with my business."
The consequence was, as the evening was clear, that there was a very numerous assemblage upon the forecastle of the cutter Yungfrau. "Flog Jemmy!" said Bill Spurey. "Why, Jemmy's a hofficer." "To be sure he is," observed another: "and quite as good a one as Vanslyperken himself, though he don't wear brass on his hat." "Damn it what next heh, Coble?" Coble hitched up his trousers.
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