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For a few moments the meester seemed lost in thought, then, arousing himself, he spoke in a new voice. "Forgive me, Raff Brinker, for this tumult. Do not feel distressed on my account. I leave your house today a happier man than I have been for many a long year. Shall I take the watch?" "Certainly, you must, mynheer. It was your son's wish."
"I I have not got it, Raff, I " She was going to tell him the whole truth when Hans lifted his finger warningly and whispered, "Remember what the meester told us. The father must not be worried." "Speak to him, child," she answered, trembling. Hans hurried to the bedside. "I am glad you are feeling better," he said, leaning over his father. "Another day will see you quite strong again."
Although pale, and still somewhat shaky as to legs, Jan had willingly enough shaken hands with his conqueror. It seemed quite right and natural that he and Jan should presently enter into a sort of Dual Alliance. Meester Fleent was to be Arbitrator Extraordinary. When he stipulated that thereafter Big Jan was only to tackle a man his own size, everybody cheered madly, and Mrs.
I sometimes think of this boy, and sometimes of that boy; I have even said to myself, Why do we look only in Meester Railsford's house? Why could it not be for I see boys of all the houses why could it not be perhaps one of Meester Beekaire's own boys? They hate him I wish Branscombe would come back. I think if he did, I would ask him."
"Leetle Poland ees ein beeg vote," Kiska eagerly assured him; "joost ein beeg vote for Meester Shelby. Whan you save me, Meester Heelyard he say eef anybody no want to vote for you, he can joost valk aus de qvarry." "Very kind of him," said Shelby. "Now, since you all know your own minds, I'd take it as a favor if you would get to the polls at the earliest possible moment.
"He PROMISED, mynheer, he promised me yesterday to come to the father in a week. But now that the change has come, we cannot wait. We think the poor father is dying. Oh, mynheer, you can plead with him to come quick. He will not wait a whole week and our father dying, the good meester is so kind." "SO KIND!" echoed Peter in astonishment. "Why, he is known as the crossest man in Holland!"
I go to tell Meester Rass," said the woman with a very marked foreign accent and in a frightened kind of voice and slipped out by the way she came. "Where have I met that woman before?" Barbara asked herself, as she crossed to tile stove to get warm. The woman's face seemed to be connected in her mind with something unpleasant, something she wanted to forget. Then a light dawned on her.
And the leetle god with the golden arrow, the rosy cheeks and the leetle dimple the dimple that we make heem for two hundred dollars a piece eh, Meester Rosythe? He breengs the ladies to us!" The critic turned. "Madame Planchet, permit me to introduce Mr. Carpenter. He is a man of wonder, he heals pain, and does it by means of love." "Oh, how eenteresting!
Monsieur slowly unfolded the paper and smoothed it out. "Meester Beekaire!" said he, with a twist of his moustache, as he recognised the writing. "You mean that I read it?" "Certainly, if you like." The Frenchman read the document through, and then pitched it back into the fire. "Well?" said Railsford. "Well, my good friend, it seems you do not know Meester Beekaire as well as others."
Meester Burke vas got hurt in the new level, an' I couldn't leeft him alone." He saw the two start promptly, dropping their picks, their heavy boots crunching along the floor, the flapping hat-brims hiding their eyes and shadowing their faces.
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