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"Adieu, Monsieur," returned François, bowing with a politeness that had become too familiar to be forgotten. "If we do not meet but in de sea, we shall not meet, nevair. Ah, ha, ha! Monsieur le Marin n'aime pas
I's bin wakin' a good while, larfin fit to bu'st my sides. De purfesser's been agoin' on like a mad renoceros for more 'n an hour. He's arter suthin, which he can't ketch. Listen! You hear 'im goin' round an' round on his tip-toes. Dere goes anoder chair. I only hope he won't smash de lamp an' set de house a-fire." "Veil, veil; I've missed him zee tence time. Nevair mind.
"Wedlock and blinkers! it is we gâssons, as you call us, who ought to know. Your hen-pecked husband has no time to generalize among the sex, in order to understand the real quality of the article. Now, here is Van Staats of Kinderhook, faithful François; what think you of such a youth for a husband for Alida?" "Pourtant, Mam'selle like de vivacité; Monsieur le Patroon be nevair trop vif."
"Ach!" cried Madame de Riedesel. "Nevair think. I speak ze Anglais parfaitement. Continuez." "I was passing," explained Janice, mightily relieved, "and hearing what your little girl was saying, I made bold to intrude, in the hope that you will let me share my milk and eggs with the children."
"What can't be?" inquired Dick, looking at Joe, who was gazing with an expression of wonder, not unmixed with concern, at the southern sky. "Dunno, boy. I've bin more in the woods than in the clearin' in my day, but I niver heerd the likes o' that." "It am like t'ondre," said Henri; "mais it nevair do stop." This was true. The sound was similar to continuous, uninterrupted thunder.
"Your father is so good," she said gratefully to Mariquita. "Yes," she smiled. "My Pápa ees of a deeferent good; he ees glad-good, an' my Madrecita ees sad-good. Me I am bad-good! You know, I mus' go to church wiz my mawther, but my Pápa, he weel not go. He nevair say 'No' to my mawther; he ees too kind. Jus' always on the church day he is seek. So seek ees my poor Pápa on the church day!"
"Enough," said young Merton, "I am satisfied. Come, father, let us retire our presence here is only a burden. O, Julia!" he added, in a tone of deep feeling, "little did I expect this at your hands. I have looked forward to this meeting with the fondest hope. It is past farewell may you be happy." "I shall be very happy to see you again nevair!" said the count.
"I nevair do put pertinent questions, sir," said Nita, turning her black eyes sharply, though with something of a twinkle in them, on the mad artist. Poor Slingsby began to explain, but Nita cut him short by turning to Lewis and again demanding, "How you knows w'at I mean?"
Surely this is not my nice boy Jack's Miss Meredith?" The girl reddened and then paled. "I beg, Lady Washington " she began; but the baroness, who had noted her change of colour, cut her off. "You haf a lofer," she cried, "and nevair one word to me told? Ach, ingrate! And your lofe I zought it was mine. "Miss Meredith is very different, then, from a certain gentleman," remarked Mrs.
There remained only the alternative, therefore, of returning by the way they had come, or recrossing the river despite the strength of the current and the fact that there were several cascades just below them, to get into which would have involved canoe and men in certain destruction. "Ve can nevair do it.
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