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"Yer honour, it's bad news I bring!" he exclaimed, panting for breath, though he did not forget to touch his hat to his commander; "the spalpeens of Arabs have been and taken Mr Desmond, and our 'terpreter Hamed, and they'll be after cutting their throats if we don't look sharp and carry them help.
The chap would not sell it to un; Lord Screw wanted to beat him down, and the chap took huff, said he wouldn't sell it to him at no price, and accepted the offer of the foreigneering man, or of Jack, who was his 'terpreter, and who scorned to higgle about such a hanimal, because Jack is a gentleman, though bred a dickey-boy, whilst t'other, though bred a lord, is a screw and a whitefeather.
I used to go 60 miles out on de Gulf o' Mexico, as 'terpreter on dem big ships dat come from France. Dat was 'fore I done forgot my French talk what I was raised to speak. "De white folks is mighty good to me. De riches' man in Picayune, he recognizes me an' gives me two bits or fo' bits. I sho' has plenty o' good frien's.
"And," said the Brazilian, with a look of great dignity, "I hab de honour for be de 'terpreter." "Ah!" exclaimed Martin, "then I am in good fortune, for I shall have a friend at court." The interpreter smiled slightly and bowed, after which they proceeded for some time in silence.
But in my own land I was a chief, and friend of the great and good Gordon, so I is friend to all Englishmin. Once I was 'terpreter to Gordon, but the Mahdi came. I fell into his hands, and now I do run befront his horse, an' hold de stirrup! I comes to you from the Mahdi wid bad news." "Indeed! But I need not wonder. You could scarcely come from him with good news. What have you to tell?"
"And," said the Brazilian, with a look of great dignity, "I hab de honour for be de 'terpreter." "Ah!" exclaimed Martin, "then I am in good fortune, for I shall have a friend at court." The interpreter smiled slightly and bowed, after which they proceeded for some time in silence.
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