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Then, when we were alone, the Quaker turned to me. "Man, Andrew," he said, "it was a good thing that I had a Bible upbringing. I can manage the part fine, but I flounder among the 'thees' and 'thous. I would be the better of a drink to wash my mouth of the accursed pronouns. Will you be alone to-night about the darkening? Then I'll call in to see you, for I've much to tell you."
It is not from HER comes thees thing. She have make nothing believe me! I have come upon your assignation with Miss Essmith! I make but to pass you to fly to never come back! I have say to Chu Chu, 'Fly! We fly many miles. Sometimes together, sometimes not so mooch! Sometimes in the saddle, sometimes on the neck! Many things remain in the road; at the end, I myself remain!
"I have been track' thees mother lode," began old Bernique again, his feverish gaze again seeking out Bruce, "I think," he stopped and fell to musing, "What you gawn do, Mistaire Steering," he queried suddenly, with his weary old head twisted to one side, "what you gawn do about thees?" "Lord, Uncle Bernique, I can't do anything. You might do something for yourself.
"Thee mot'er of thees black fel'r you know, thot's thee mot'er she's gettin' old all time. She's soon dyin', thot caballo. Thees black horse he's makin' a fine one in thees wagon." Franke said nothing. Nor did Felipe speak again. And thus, in silence, they continued across the mesa and on up the canyon to the little adobe in the settlement.
She is the child of her grandmother! Even when you shall make saddle thees old Castilian stock, it will make large it will become a balloon! Eet is a trick eet is a leetle game believe me. For why?" I had not listened, as I was at that moment astonished to see the saddle slowly slide under Chu Chu's belly, and her figure resume, as if by magic, its former slim proportions.
All I ask is a chance to put my foot upon the first round of the ladder and if I do not get to the top, I shall not hold you responsible," David replied, dropping the "thees" of his Quaker life, in his determination to divest himself of all its customs as rapidly as he could. "Hi! hi! There's fire in the flint! Good thing! you don't want to split pennies! Well, if you d-d-don't, I don't.
Katy John said to her one day, in the soft, slurring accent that colored her English. "You wasn't cut out for a cook." "This isn't work," Stella retorted irritably. "It's simple drudgery. I don't wonder that men cooks take to drink." Katy laughed. "Why don't you be nice to Mr. Abbey," she suggested archly. "He'd like to give you a better job than thees for life.
"And I'm tellin' you thees, Franke," he went on, suddenly belligerent toward the other. "If you don' t'ink I'm gettin' thee right caballo, I have you arrested for stealin' thot seex dolars thot time! Money is money, too. But a horse is a horse. I know thees horse. Thot's enough!" Yet he relapsed into a moody silence, puffing thoughtfully on his cigarette.
There are ten, fifteen years that I work in thees place, and in four more weeks le patron will retire and I become the proprietor. Oh, it is bee-utiful," he continued, clasping his hands rapturously, "to think that in so leetle time I, who came to London a poor waiter, shall be patron of one of its finest restaurants." I offered him my warmest congratulations.
"Quien sabe?" he only said, dismissing the question with the national gesture. After a moment he added: "I shall tell you something that is strrange, so strrange that you shall say, like the banker say, 'Thees Enriquez, he ees off his head; he ees a crank, a lunatico; but it ees a FACT; believe me, I have said!" He rose, and, going to the end of the room, opened a door.
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