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"From de Sawbuk Hills," answered the botanist, filling his mouth with an enormous mass of dried meat. "Ay, indeed! That's just where we are goin' to," returned Bevan. "An' vere may you be come from?" asked the stranger. "From Simpson's Gully," said Fred. "Ha! how cooriouse! Dat be joost vere I be go to."
"No, no, Madame," broke in Buck, while Blaine furtively grinned. "We are doing finely-finely ouch!" "Ees zat anew pain?" The elderly nurse was at once by his side. "We must rest quiet, mon enfant. Quiet for joost one day more. Then you will be moved to our nearest base " "Say, Madame!" Buck was interrupting eagerly, "what has become of the girls that were here yesterday?" "Ah-h! Yes, yes!
"Yis, Sorr if th' yoong lady says so beg pardon, Sorr, Miss Landis is driving." "Oh h! I see. Is Miss Landis a guest at Shotover House?" "Yis, Sorr. An' if ye would joost ask her the phayton do be coming now, Sorr!" The phaeton was coming; the horse, a showy animal, executed side-steps; blue ribbons fluttered from the glittering head-stall; a young girl in white was driving.
"Mijnheer Joost?" she repeated. "Yes," the father answered. "It is his, not mine; to him belongs the honour. It is he who has produced this marvel. How? That is a secret; perhaps even I could not tell you if I would; Nature is wonderful in her ways; we can only help her, we cannot create. Yes, yes, it is Joost who has done this. He seemed to you a retiring youth?
She is better as a hundert ladies she is joost a plain vomans who keeps a express office over dere Cleary's Express. You don't know it? Vell, dot's your fault. Dot's her boy Bobby outside de door. He has been up vid his fadder to de Grand Central for some sideboards and sofas I been buyin'. You vant to look at 'em ven dey git unloaded.
But she made no impression on Joost and apparently did not alter the case; the laws of the bulb growers were not only like those of the "Medes and Persians which alter not," but also refused to be bent or evaded even by a Polkington. "It is yours," Joost said, as he took a last look at the flower before he rose from his knees; "the great honour is yours, and I am glad of it."
Do you know the tune 'Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself?" "Yes; but I play second to nobody." "Very well, I'll beat you at any air you try." "Done!" said Joost. And then began a contest that lasted until daybreak.
"Noa," Jack said, "that's aboot roight, though I be sorry I said it; I joost reckoned it in my head." "But how didst do that, Jack?" his questioner asked, astonished, while the boys standing round stared in silent wonder. "Oh! in my head," Jack said carelessly; "it be easy enough to reckon in your head if you practise a little." "And canst do any sum in thy head, Jack, as quick as that?"
Gillat, a very old friend of mine," Julia explained, and Joost bowed deeply, offering his hand and saying, "I hope that you are well, sir." Whereupon Mr. Gillat impressed, imitated him as nearly as he could, and Julia looked away. They had dinner in the kitchen on Sundays as well as week days, they made no difference to-day.
On his way down the street he had taken the precaution to pick up a policeman and bring him along with him. The lights were switched on in the store and Mr. Joost lovingly abstracted the blue vase from the window. "What's the cursed thing worth?" Peck demanded. "Two thousand dollars," Mr. Joost replied without so much as the quiver of an eyelash. "Cash," he added, apparently as an afterthought.
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