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Joost had given her the bulb because he loved her; he had made no conditions because he believed in her; he had even professed himself content that she should sell it because, in his humbleness and generosity, he wanted only that she should get what ease she could.
Julia fetched the right one and carried it out for the old lady; also an umbrella with a bow on the handle, a mackintosh, a shawl, and a large basket. Mijnheer came from the office with his spectacles pushed up on his forehead, and a minute later Joost also came to say good-bye; even the maidservant came from the kitchen to see them start.
Swein Poulsson had become a hero, nor was he willing to lose any of the glamour which was a hero's right. "You did not see me safe James, no? I vill tell you Joost how." It never leaked out that Swein was first of all under the bed, for Polly Ann and Bill Cowan and myself swore to keep the secret.
I watch, and I say to myself also, this boy haf goot joodgement. And when you look at your pistol so quick, I tell you quick I don't send you to kill men when they are so scarce already! My boy, it is ever the moral, the say-noding strength what gets there mit always the liddle pistol behind, in case joost in case. Haf you understand? I ask you to shoot. I see you know how, as Brock told me.
"And for that reason to be welcomed? Really you deserve to succeed in whatever it is you are attempting; you do not neglect details." "Details are often important," she said; "stopping at home and doing crochet work while Joost is in Germany, for instance, may help me a good deal."
"What glorious bayonet work we shall have presently," whispered Villiers to Cranstoun, as they were brought together by their stations at the adjacent extremities of their respective division. "Only mark how the fellows sleep." "The deevil a beet," responded Cranstoun, "a joost noo heerd Coolonel St Julian propoose and even enseest upoon it.
Then young Greatorex's voice was heard again, and in its softness there was the furtive note of shame. "I joost looked in to Vicarage to leave woord with Paason." The noise of the wheels and hoofs began again, the iron shoes clanked together and struck out the rhythm that the sisters knew.
Munsberg jerked himself upright irascibly, and broke forth in the accent of the New York German Jew. "If you comin' in here to try to sell somedings, young man, joost you let that same vind vat blew you in blow you right out pretty quick. I'm not buyin' nodings. I'm busy." "I'm not selling a darned thing," answered Tembarom, with undismayed cheer. "You vant someding?" jerked out Munsberg.
"I not ask you to buy," rejoined the tempter, holding the spirits a little nearer to his victim's nose. "Joost take von leetle glass for goot vellowship." It seemed rude to decline a proposal so liberally made, and with such a smiling countenance. Lockley took the glass, drank it off and went hurriedly on deck, followed by the Dutchman, with the case-bottle in one hand and the glass in the other.
"To judge from the weight and hardness of this fruit, I should think a blow on one's head from it would be fatal." "Sometimes, not alvays. I suppose zat Dyak skulls are strong. But zee wound is terrible, for zee spikes tear zee flesh dreadfully. Zee Dyak chief, Rajah, vith whom I dwell joost now, was floored once by one, and he expected to die but he did not.
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