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Escorted to bureau, where I am turned over to a very fat gendarme. "This is the American." The v-f-g eyed me, and I read my sins in his porklike orbs. "Hurry, we have to walk," he ventured sullenly and commandingly. Himself stooped puffingly to pick up the segregated sack.
Whereupon Barbemouche led the way back to the woods, followed by fat Antoine, who toiled puffingly, Jacques, who stepped daintily and seemed fearful of treading on stones and briars, and last of all Francois, who moved at a measured pace, with long strides, retaining his air of profound meditation.
"And we put three shots in the lobster pots, Three cheers for the witches three" Davy remembered only snatches of this song, but its hilarious tunefulness appealed to his state of feeling on the third landing. David chuckled, gurgled, and puffingly mounted higher.
"By all means," I answered, and kissing her good-bue I trolleyed to New Rochelle. Bunch was there ahead of me and so were Skinski and Ma'moiselle Dodo, all working like beavers. "I'm going to take the 11:40 to town," Skinski informed us after all was in readiness for the performance. "I have a very important date, haven't I, Dodey?" "You betcher sweet!" she puffingly replied.
With a lot of anxious, troubled, houseless women and querulous, distraught, frightened children, and difficult half-grown boys, and the commandant's general orders to quarter them all to their satisfaction and to furnish whatever was necessary, the strain might have proved too great for the old bustling sergeant, and like undue pressure on the boiler of one of our modern locomotives, which he much resembled, as he went back and forth puffingly, might have exploded his valuable faculties, but for Odalie's well-meant hints.
It was evident that Bilby's money felt warm in the deputy sheriff's pocket, and he was determined to give the little fat man full weight for his cash. "This here business is something that can be settled without any row, Mr. Hammond if that's your name," said the officer, puffingly. "It is my name, all right," returned the president of the Alectrion Corporation. "And I don't expect any row.
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