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'People grow to be friends by liking, Madame, and liking comes of itself, not by bargain; I like every one who is kind to me. 'And so I. You are like me in so many things, my dear Maud! Are you quaite well to-day? I think you look fateague; so I feel, too, vary tire. I think we weel put off the lessons to to-morrow. Eh? and we will come to play la grace in the garden.
Being now thoroughly frightened, after an ineffectual struggle, during which I heard Madame say, 'You fool, Maud, weel you come with me? see wat you are doing, I began to scream, shriek after shriek, which the man attempted to drown with loud hooting, peals of laughter, forcing his handkerchief against my mouth, while Madame continued to bawl her exhortations to 'be quaite' in my ear.
I am very glad to leave Bartram-Haugh, at all events. 'But your uncle weel bring you back there, said Madame, drily. 'It is doubtful whether he will ever return to Bartram himself, I said. 'Ah! said Madame, with a long-drawn nasal intonation, 'you theenk I hate you. You are quaite wrong, my dear Maud. I am, on the contrary, very much interested for you I am, I assure you, dear a cheaile.
On his part, he pinned his faith to the statement of Strachey, a man who had lived in James Towne and who had said that the isthmus was no broader than "a man will quaite a tileshard." But this Nautica refused to accept as satisfactory because we did not know what a "tileshard" was nor how far a man would "quaite" one. So we were naturally anxious to see which of us was right.
So, the width across the isthmus could very well be ten of Mrs. Cotton's paces, no matter what sort of a woman she was; and it could just as well be the distance that "a man will quaite a tileshard," be a tileshard what it may. Now, coasting along the end of the island, we had designs on the "Lone Cypress" for a sort of novel sensation.
'Be quaite, Maud, whispered Madame, with an awful adjuration, which I do not care to set down. 'They are teepsy; don't seem 'fraid. I was afraid terrified. The circle had now so narrowed that they might have placed their hands on my shoulders. 'Pray, gentlemen, wat you want? weel a you 'av the goodness to permit us to go on?
'Je sens des lassitudes in all the members but I am quaite 'appy, and though I suffer I am console and oblige des bontés, ma chère, que vous avez tous pour moi; and with these words she turned a languid glance of gratitude on me which dropped on the ground. 'Lady Knollys wishes very much to see you, only for a few minutes, if you could admit her.
Isn't he pretty, Miss? and I'm Sir Simon Sugarstick so called after old Sir Simon, ma'am; and I'm so tall and straight, Miss, and slim ain't I? and ever so sweet, my honey, when you come to know me, just like a sugarstick; ain't I, Lolly, boy? 'I'm Miss Ruthyn, tell them, Madame, I said, stamping on the ground, and very much frightened. 'Be quaite, Maud.
"Glad to hear it; I hope you'll be quaite equally delaighted when you leave us." The mimicry was so perfect that all the boys broke into a roar of laughter, which was all the louder because Tracy immediately began to chafe and "smoke." "And, Jones," said Power, as the laugh against Tracy subsided, "I think I saw you throw a snowball and hit Smythe.
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