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"He was honest when he cabled. But the jewel, the great, big, beautiful jewel itself corrupted him. He looked at it, and looked at it, till the love of it filled his heart and he could not part with it. Himmel, I have felt it all. I know what happened as well as if I had been at his side all the voyage." "Look here, you foul slanderer," cried Jack. "I'll prove you a liar out and out. Listen to me.
"Zank ze goodness SHE is not here!" exclaimed the Baron. "Whisht! whisht!" he could hear Dugald expostulate. With a violent start he turned to the fellow-passenger who had followed him in. "Are you not Dugald?" he demanded hoarsely. "No it's it's me! I dursn't wait for my dog-cart!" "Eva!" he murmured. "Oh, Himmel! Vat shall I do?"
Binswanger, placing a hand with a loud pat on each knee. "So!" "Oh, papa!" "A fine come-off! A fine come-off! Eh, mamma? To Europe we go to take our daughter, and just so soon as we go no daughter we 'ain't got to take!" "Gott in Himmel! Gott in Himmel!" "Ray, haven't you got nothing to say to Irving and me Ray!" With a quick, fluid movement the younger sister slid close and her arms wound tight.
"If you not satisfy, den I gif you six shilling more; wot you say, eh? Dat make ten pound and six shilling, English. It not worth one penny more, I tell you." "Mike it ten guineas," urged Kinlay. "What! ten guineas? Himmel, mine child, you make me ruined!" exclaimed the Jew. "Give the lad the ten guineas and be done with it, Isaac," said a young seaman who appeared to know him.
"Gott in himmel!" they all cried, and, to my surprise, the old woman burst into tears. "It is bad to dream of a dog," she wailed. "It means evil to all of us. Evil to " "Come!" said I, grabbing the keys from the old man's unresisting hand. "And, Schmick, if that dog bites me, I'll hold you personally responsible. Do you understand?"
A million dollars my child asks for just like it was five dollars!" "I'm not asking that, ma, I'm not. Five hundred thousand of it is mine by rights. I'm only asking for half a million." "Gott in Himmel, child, much more as a million dollars I 'ain't got left altogether. With my five sons married and their shares drawn, I tell you, Becky, a million dollars to you now would leave me so low that "
"Well, you see, sir," began Markley, but Geisler interrupted him furiously. "Ach Himmel! Vot are you, a man or a Strassbourg pie? Donnervetter! Go! Raus! gedt oudt! Vamoose!" "Sir," began Markley, turning to Mr. Merrill from this furious storm of abuse. But his employer had taken out his check-book and fountain pen, and seemed intent upon making out the pink slips.
Then her thoughts were interrupted by a solemn undergraduate with a hurt look and an air of strained formality who presented himself before her and bowed unusually low. It was the man she had come with, Peter Himmel. He was tall and humorous, with horned-rimmed glasses and an air of attractive whimsicality. She suddenly rather disliked him probably because he had not succeeded in kissing her.
Is it not a joke? Ach, Himmel, how our officers have laughed over that in Belgium! With their booted feet on the mantelpiece as they read and with bottles of appropriated champagne beside them as they laugh." "You are right, General," I said, "you will forgive my not laughing out loud, but you are a great humorist." "Am I not?
Beverly could hardly repress a smile as his eyes fell on the slim figure of the poor, grey-headed, homely old artist. Was this the noble young foreigner, the handsome German music master he had pictured to himself? Was this Hélène's romance? "Gott in Himmel, what a squeeze he gives the hand!" thought Von Barwig, as he tried to release his injured digits from the vice that held them.
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