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"Not in my boat, John Drillot," cried Peter. "Not in my boat. I've had enough of him, pardi!" and he set off at speed for the boat. "Don't be a fool, Peter. You, Evan Morgan, run down and stop him going. Come on, John Trevna," and after peering cautiously down to make sure the dead man had not moved, they dropped into the well again. The shrivelled figure was very light, as Trevna had found.
Why shouldn't he " But Nance shook her head at that. "Why then?" demanded Mrs. Tom, with visions of some one besides Tom to talk to of an evening a good-looking, sensible one too. "Why?" "He and Tom don't get on well together " "Pardi, I'm not surprised at that. It would need an angel out of heaven to get on with him sometimes. What induced me ever to marry such a grumbler I don't know.
The man's vulgarity stifles me. He wafts me whiffs of gin. Tobacco and onions are in his great coarse laugh, which choke me, pardi; and I don't think much better of the other fellow the Scots' gallipot purveyor Peregrine Clinker, Humphrey Random how did the fellow call his rubbish? Neither of these men had the bel air, the bon ton, the je ne scais quoy. Pah!
"You have really made me impatient to see her," said Lady Delacour: "but I am not able to go out, you know, yet; and with a new acquaintance, one must go through the ceremony of a morning visit. Now, en conscience, is it worth while?" "Very well worth while," cried Belinda and Clarence Hervey, eagerly. "Ah, pardi! as M. le Comte exclaims continually, Ah, pardi!
The porter who showed it was exceedingly proud of the performance, and when I expressed my astonishment at Buonaparte's numerous plans and the difficulty he must have been at to procure money, looking cautiously about him, he said, "Oh, mais il avoit le don d'un Dieu," and then grasping my arm with one hand and tapping me on the shoulder with the other, and again looking round to see if then the coast was clear, he added, "Mais il n'y est plus, ah, vous comprenez cela n'est-ce pas," and then casting a look at his Elephant he concluded with a sigh and a mutter, "Superbe, ah, pardi, que c'est superbe!"
"And from the wise, M. le Comte," replied I, making him a bow, "is enough." The Count de Faineant embraced me with more ardor than ever I was embraced by mortal man. For three weeks together I was of every man's opinion I met. "Pardi! ce M. Yorick a autant d'esprit que nous autres." "Il raisonne bien," said another. "C'est un bon enfant," said a third.
What a devil of an apothecary! to take so much blood give such a vile purge puke poultice plaister night-draught clyster blister? And why so many grains of calomel? santa Maria! and such a dose of opium! peri-clitating, pardi! the whole family of ye, from head to tail By my great-aunt Dinah's old black velvet mask! I think there is no occasion for it.
Did not always his guests, those strange blonde people with the clothes like blankets, pay his prices without question? Did they not drink bad wine and never add the bill? Pardi! if he could have only English as patrons, madame and himself could purchase that wine-shop in the Bou' Mich', and never worry again.
"Excellently answered!" cried he; "you have exactly defined my own feelings, though in a manner I should never have arrived at. But I was certain your taste was too well formed, to be pleased at the expense of your understanding." "Pardi," cried Madame Duval, "I hope you two is difficult enough!
"Pardi, yes, mon gars! Shoot straight, and the Island will thank you," asserted John Drillot. "Ant for Heaven's sake, John Trevna, see you ton't shoot me behint by mistake," urged Evan Morgan; and they disappeared slowly into the tunnel, while the other two stood waiting expectantly in the well.
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