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The shouting and swearing subsided, all save the howling from the inside of the shop, and the tumult settled down in a moment to mutterings and gnashings and a broken and irregular silence. Then somebody said, "It's nothink, sir." And somebody else said, "'Es on'y drunk, and wantin' to pench 'is mother."
There were wild encounters. "Wot tcher, myte? Wot's yer amoosemint now?" "Silence, you evil liver, you gambler, you son of Belial!" "Stou thet now d'ye want a kepple er black eyes or a pench on the nowze?" At nine o'clock the police of Westminster, being unable to disperse the crowd, seat to Scotland Yard for the mounted constabulary.
An English envoy arrived in Cabul, and negotiations were entered into, which we contrived to spin out sufficiently to gain time for the erection of small forts in the Pamirs. Finally an arrangement was arrived at in London to the effect that the Pench should be the boundary between Russia and Afghanistan in the Pamir territory.
Sister Mariechen vas sitting on a pench, and she ask me what I want. In ze conversation Papa says, 'You know, perhaps, yong man, where stants our army? and I say, 'I myself am come from ze army, ant it stants now at Wien. 'Our son, says Papa, 'is a Soldat, ant now is it nine years since he wrote never one wort, and we know not whether he is alive or dead.
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