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Hoku now hurriedly turned to me. "You hully up, bling me one pair bellows pletty quick!" he commanded. I ran into his room and brought the bellows from his fireplace.
"'Can Ah Moy walk home with pletty lady? he asked in dove-like tones. "Now Miss Cragiemuir's fads were invariably carried through to the last extremity, and Ah Moy's request, instead of embarrassing her, afforded a thrill of gratification.
As he spoke a smiling Chinese, dressed just as the Bobbsey twins had seen them in pictures, with his shirt outside his trousers, came shuffling along, carrying big trays from which came delicious appetizing odors. "Dlinna all leddy!" said Sing Foo. "All leddy numbla one top side pletty quick."
"Well, never mind about it now, boys. I reckon we'll think about the supper. Hurry up, Wing. Just get a little move on you." "Allee light, Misler Wild," answered the cook, smilingly. "Me havee, um supper leady allee samee pletty quickee, so be." "Me helpee my blother," spoke up Hop, grinning. "He allee samee velly muchee slow." "Me no slow," retorted Wing; "me allee light."
"Li Ho find more plasel too. Pletty soon put um back. Honorable Boss indulge in fit if missing." "Which means that it belongs to father and that you have borrowed it?" suggested she, delicately. "No b'long him. B'long you," said Li Ho, thrusting the packet into her hand. And, as if fearful of being questioned further, he had taken the candle and departed.
And it is tlue, it seems tlue: they had learned to love Despair, to be even ploud of Despair. Yet all the time, I feel sure flom what I have lead, flom what I scent, that the individual man was stluggling to see, to live light, but without power, like one's leg when it is asleep: that is so pletty of them all! that they meant well everly one.
"Him lalee!" cried the Chinaman, overjoyed at the prospect of getting his money. "Pletty speak, I knowee him. Lalee want clo?" "Not to-night. The lady is sick; see, she can hardly stand."
Yen Sin, dear me, what's the matter of you?" "Mista Yen Sin fine," he said in a strengthless voice, smiling and nodding from the couch where he lay, half propped up by a gorgeous, faded cushion. "Mista Yen Sin go back China way pletty quick now, yes." "Honest?" He made no further answer, but took up the collar I had brought. "You been gone Gillypo't, yes? You take colla China boy, yes?" "Yessir!"
"He pletty nice man, Sam Low, yes?" "Oh, you know him, then? Oh, he's all right, Yen Sin." It was growing dark outside, and colder, with a rising wind from landward to seaward against the tide. A sense of something odd and wrong came over me; it was a moment before I could make it out. The fire was dead in the stove for the first time in memory and the Vestal irons were cold.
Allee time foolee me," he grinned facetiously. "You no see me the'? Me playum, too. Win ten dolla', you bet!" "Well, all right, Woo," said Rimrock. "Just give me something to eat we won't quarrel about who won." He leaned back in his chair and Woo Chong said no more till he appeared again with a T-bone steak. "You ketchum mine, pletty soon?" he questioned anxiously.
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