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'If dat is soup, growled he, 'den I's sailed forty tousand mile trough soup, which is the number of miles he was supposed to have sailed in his various voyages. "But no matter for the soup. The days wore on none the less that the soup was thin, and still we kept going on and on, getting farther and farther north, and into more and more ice.
Dhere is not von instance recorded in dhe whole historia of Denmark. ANSWER. And since then, Sir ? THE DANE. I was sent ofer to dhe Vest Indies to our Island, and dhere I had no more to do vid books. No! no! I put my genius anodher way and I haf made ten tousand pound a year. Is not dhat ghenius, my dear friend? But vat is money? I dhink dhe poorest man alive my equal.
He opened and closed his fingers of both hands four times, meaning that the hostile post consisted of five Germans and forty native troops. "They saw you?" asked the subaltern. "Dem no look," replied the sergeant. "Too much busy make eat." "How far away?" "One tousand yards, sah," declared Bela Moshi.
You too mush gentleman not to help a poor old man, ven he ish in distress." "Rather say, Mr Emmanuel, that you have heard that I have not ten thousand pounds per annum, and that you are afraid that you have lost your money." "Loshe my monish! no loshe my tousand pound! Did you not say, dat you would pay it back to me, and give me hundred pounds for my trouble; dat vash de last arrangement."
Do I not speak like Socrates, and Plato, and Cato they were all philosophers, my dear philosophe! all very great men! and so was Homer and Virgil but they were poets. Yes, yes! I know all about it! But what can anybody say more than this? We are all equal, all Got's children. I haf ten tousand a year, but I am no more dhan de meanest man alive. I haf no pride; and yet, my dear friend!
No shoddy upstarts dem, but born to purple, lady, born to purple. Old Gen'ral Cresswell had niggers and acres no end back dere in Carolina. He brung a part of dem here and here his son, de father of dis Colonel Cresswell, was born. De son I knowed him well he had a tousand niggers and ten tousand acres afore de war." "Were they kind to their slaves?"
"You leave your farm, sir? Why, they pay you ten shillings a claim, and that must make a large return; the pan is fifteen acres." "Yes, mine vriend," said the poor Hollander, "they pay; but deir money it cost too dear. Vere is mine peace? Dis farm is six tousand acres. If de cursed diamonds was farther off, den it vas vell. But dey are too near. Once I could smoke in peace, and zleep.
"You can't put me in prison for an agreement," replied I. "No; but I can prosecute you for a swindler." "No, you confounded old rascal, you cannot; try, and do your worst," cried I, enraged at the word swindler. "Veil, Mr Newland, if you have not de ten tousand a year, you have de house and de monish; you vill not cheat a poor man like me." "I have sold my house."
"Der liddle fool he haf bit me," says Reingelder. 'Dese things was before we know apout der permanganat-potash injection. I was discomfordable. "Die oop der arm, Reingelder," said I, "und trink whisky ontil you can no more trink." "Trink ten tousand tevils! I will go to dinner," said Reingelder, und he put her afay und it vas very red mit emotion.
So here she was, inviting the party to share her box at the theatre; and here was T-S explaining that it couldn't be done, he had got to see his French revolution pictures took, dey had five tousand men hired to make a mob. I noted that Mrs. Stebbins received the "advertising" figures on the production!
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