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"O! chief," asked the puzzled Sir Robert, "this is a strange palaver you make who gave you these ideas?" "Lord, none gave me this idea save my own bright mind," said Bosambo. "Yes, many nights have I laid thinking of these things for I am just and I have faith." His Excellency kept his unwavering eye upon the other.
And chanting this, after thanking me, he departed, gratified with his gratuity, rejoiced at his reception, and most undoubtedly benefited by the beer with which I had encouraged his palaver a word, by the way, which is not inappropriate, since it contains in itself the very word of words, the lav, which means a word, and is most antiquely and excellently Gipsy.
"He has," interrupted Joseph; "but I don't want to make any palaver about that. He's like the rest of the world, and he thinks if a man wears a shabby coat, he must be a scoundrel; that's all. I forgive him." The languid youth, very much in the background, and quite sheltered, by his master, might have been heard murmuring faintly "Oh, indeed! Forgive, indeed! Do you really, now?
The town was entirely deserted; for the warriors had gone forth to fight, if a fight there was to be; and the women and children were sent for security into the "bush." In the central square stood the Palaver House, beneath the shadow of a magnificent wide-spreading tree, which had perhaps mingled the murmur of its leaves with the eloquence of the native orators, for at least a century.
"And he shall return to that foolish palaver," said Bosambo grimly, "and if he goes away unsatisfied, behold I will come, and I will take your old men, and I will hang them by hooks into a tree and roast their feet. For if there is no Sandi and no law, behold I am Sandi and I law, doing the will of a certain bearded king, Togi-tani."
If her hands had been loose, and she had possessed a knife just then we are afraid to think of the dreadful use to which she would have put it! The natives spent a considerable time in securely binding their three captives, after which they bore them into the cavern. Here they kindled a torch and held a long palaver as to what was to be done with the prisoners.
To ascertain this fact was the point at issue, and the learned advocates contrived to puzzle the cause in such a manner that, after a hearing of three days, the court broke up without coming to any determination upon it; and a second palaver was, I suppose, thought necessary. The Mandingoes, generally speaking, are of a mild, sociable, and obliging disposition.
"And a little after that I took her slippers home from the Charity Ball at the Grand Palaver. Archie Jones took her home herself in his car, but I took her slippers. She'd forgotten them. I thought that a pretty good sign, wasn't it? You wouldn't let a chap carry round your slippers unless you knew him pretty well, would you, Miss Philippa?" "Oh no, nobody would," said Philippa.
Fine arms, but legs no good below the knee. Couldn't make cavalry men of them." And after glancing down complacently at his own shanks, he always concluded: "Pah! Don't they stink! You, Makola! I'd rather see it full of bone than full of rags." Kayerts approved. "Yes, yes! Go and finish that palaver over there, Mr. Makola. I will come round when you are ready, to weigh the tusk.
"I think a better plan would be to get Aboh and his brother to ferry Tom across the lake while we march round and find our way to his village." On explaining our proposal to Aboh, he had a long palaver with his brother. The result was not satisfactory. "Bad man dere," he said, pointing to the eastern end of the lake. "What do you advise, then?" asked Charley.
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