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The difficulty of attaching any blame to his friend seemed to have anything but a soothing effect on the Baron. You could almost fancy that you heard his tail lash the floor. “Zat vas not all,” he continued, after a short struggle with his wrath. “I valked on, and soon I see two of ze frients I made last night at supper.” “Which two?”
"Vas hall your money right, Mr Biggs?" inquired the purser's steward. "I didn't count," replied the boatswain magnificently. "No gentlemen are habove that," replied Easthupp; "but there are many light-fingered gentry about. The quantity of vatches and harticles of value vich were lost ven I valked Bond Street in former times is incredible."
"Did you walk all the way from Little Poland to see me?" "I valked," answered Kiska, simply, his face working. "I vould like to haf roon, Meester Shelby." "Oh, I wouldn't run much just yet," laughed Shelby, kindly, trying to head off the man's expression of gratitude. "Have another drink? Perhaps you'd prefer some whiskey?" Kiska declined, and harked back to his message.
“I vent to ze Park,” said the Baron, with a solemn deliberation that evidently came hardly to him. “I entered ze Park. I vas dressed, as you know, viz taste and appropriety. I vas sober, as you know. I valked under ze trees, and I looked agreeably at ze people. Goddam!” “My dear Baron!” expostulated Mr Bunker. The Baron resumed his intense composure with a great effort.
"Vas hall your money right, Mr Biggs?" inquired the purser's steward. "I didn't count," replied the boatswain magnificently. "No gentlemen are above that," replied Easthupp; "but there are many light-fingered gentry habout. The quantity of vatches and harticles of value vich were lost ven I valked Bond Street in former times is incredible."
"It vas goin round so, und it vas more lighter yet as dot man here, und hees face vas more lighter too, und he valked mit stick all time und he don' go long mit hees head up, red in hees face like dis man here und dark in hees face too. Craikmile's son go all time limpin' so." Nels took a step to illustrate the limp of Peter Junior when he had seen him last.
Plush will do her justice. * The letter-box of Mr. Punch, in whose columns these papers were first published. "Come all ye gents vot cleans the plate, Come all ye ladies maids so fair Vile I a story vill relate Of cruel Jeames of Buckley Square. A tighter lad, it is confest, Neer valked with powder in his air, Or vore a nosegay in his breast, Than andsum Jeames of Buckley Square.
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