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However that night a fisherman named Karim, happening to pass by and seeing the garden gate open, said to himself, "This is a time of negligence; and I will take advantage of it to do a bit of fishing." So he took his net and cast it, but he had hardly done so when behold, the Caliph come up single-handed and, standing hard by, knew him and called aloud to him, "Ho, Karim!"
"Ho! varlet, take this purse and hie thee hence to tell thy mistress I await her coming." And so, notwithstanding their marvellous courage, and although their trade was quite lucrative, the Delobelles often found themselves in straitened circumstances, especially in the dull season of the 'Articles de Paris. Luckily the excellent Risler was at hand, always ready to accommodate his friends.
But as it was, I went back to my place, where Mercer was seated, with his hands clasped and thrust down between his knees, his back up, and his head down over his book, apparently grinding up his Euclid, upon which he kept his eyes fixed. "Oh ho!" he whispered; "here you are. Without exception, sir, the stupidest boy I ever taught."
The kid you brought in to-day was a baby then alone with her mother. Ho, ho! deuced easy deuced easy! But he was a darn' fool!" He drank with incredible slowness, it seemed to David. It was torture to watch him, with the fear, every instant, that Hauck would come. "What happened?" he urged. "Bucky my friend in love with that woman, O'Doone's wife," resumed Brokaw. "Dead crazy, Mac.
"Ho! ho!" he thought, "if that was a ghost which groaned, he has got a light to light himself about with anyhow; and he must be stowed away in some hollow hereabouts, under the floor or in the wall, and there he shall remain till morning light if he doesn't want a broken head or an ounce of lead sent through his body."
"You can come, too, if you like," ses Emma. "Father said I was to bring you. Don't 'ave none of your nonsense there, that's all." Charlie thanked 'er, and they was all walking along, him and Mrs. Jennings behind, when Emma looked over 'er shoulder. "Sophy's young man is coming," she ses. "Ho!" ses Charlie.
OLD-man is a big eater, but he couldn't eat all of the Squirrels at once, and while eating he fell asleep with the great plate in his lap. "Nobody knows how long it was that he slept, but when he waked his plate of Squirrels was gone gone completely. He looked behind him; he looked about him; but the plate was surely gone. Ho! But he was angry.
"Yes, a bit pinched here and there, as you say," said the Governor. "Withal it is an exceeding corpulent nose, thus, and so, all in one place, at the end," proceeded Yi Chin Ho. "Your excellency would seek far and wide and many a day for that nose and find it not." "An unusual nose," admitted the Governor. "There is a wart upon it," said Yi Chin Ho. "A most unusual nose," said the Governor.
After silence had been called and the place cleared, a huge, wry-shouldered devil, placed a back-load of fresh prisoners before the bar. Therefore show us the way, or, by the Pope's toe, we will cause him to punish you." Ha! ha! ha! ho! ho! ho! said eight hundred devils; and Lucifer himself, parted his jaws half a yard in a kind of bitter laugh.
They begged, further, that ho would promise by a new and authentic act, that the provinces of Holland and Zealand, would not suffer the said exercise to be impugned, or any new worship to be introduced, in the other provinces of the Netherlands. This letter might almost be regarded as a trap, set by the Catholic nobles.
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