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The opium-den was a sort of anteroom." "Weymouth's big Chinese case had similar features," said Inspector Dunbar, who re-entered at that moment carrying a leathern grip. "If you are kept waiting and you keep your ears open, doctor, that's when your knowledge of the lingo will come in useful.
I could mighty near furnish the replies sometimes. It was queer lingo about ships and ships' officers and gales and calms and fights and pearls and whales and islands and birds and skies. But it was all little stuff. I used to listen by the hour, but I never made out anything really important as to who the man was, or where he'd come from, or what he'd done.
'Ay, that's German lingo, William, and you ought to know it if you're a loyal sailor means "I serve." 'Mr.
"What was the charge at the garage?" inquired Cleek of Dollops just previously to alighting. "I dunno wot it runs to in this 'ere rum lingo of francs and sous, sir," said Dollops, "but the garage gent he said it would amount to two pounds ten in English money, so I'll have to leave you to work it out for yourself.
"Spritsail and rigging!" interrupted the Buccaneer, whose enraged spirit sought some outlet, "No conventicle lingo here you forget your company, Sir Willmott. What of the Jew?" "You know his highness has strangely favoured this man, and that he is much thought of.
Colonel Smith expressed what was in all our minds when, after listening to the reasoning of the Professor, he blurted out: "Thank God, she doesn't speak any of their blamed lingo! By Jove, it would soil her pretty lips." "But also that she speaks, too," said the man from Heidelberg, turning to Colonel Smith with a grin. "We shall both of them eventually learn."
Frightful, how the young years of the European Generations have been wasted, for ten centuries back; and the Thinkers of the world have become mere walking Sacks of Marine-stores, "GELEHRTEN, Learned," as they call themselves; and gone LOST to the world, in that manner, as a set of confiscated Pedants; babbling about said Heathens, and THEIR extinct lingo and fraction of sense and nonsense, for the thousand years last past!
Then as for the other he had heard not so long before the same identical lingo as he told Stephen how he simply but effectually silenced the offender. He took umbrage at something or other, that muchinjured but on the whole eventempered person declared, I let slip. He called me a jew and in a heated fashion offensively.
My wife put me up to getting that job, and a good job it is, mind you, when you know your way about. I'd never have had the cheek to try for it, if it hadn't been for the missis. She's a clever one she is. I did a good day's work when I married her. "You shave off that moustache of yours it ain't an ornament," she says to me, "and chance it. Don't get attempting the lingo.
When they were all set right, he bowed and scraped, and touched his hat to me, as if I'd been the biggest gentleman in the land; talkin, too, he was, all the time, though I couldn't make out a word of his lingo; and then he insisted on my takin' one o' the figurs. I wasn't agoin' to take it, for I didn't want it; but I happened to think little Gerty might like it."
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