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Mein brain vorks in a manner most vonderful ven I looks down the barrel of a big pistol." "This pistol is a marvelous stimulant to a good education." "How did you know mein name vas Schneider?" "Intuition, Herr Schneider! Intuition! We Southern people have wonderful intuitive faculties." "Vell, it vas not Schneider. My name vas Jacob Onderdonk." Harry laughed and Dalton reddened.
"Mees Dorotee," he began ponderously, "de trood is dot I vas goming to see you to dell you I vas ferry mooch in loaf mid you, und to ask you to be mein vifes; but now dot you do veep so mooch, I " "Say no more if you please, Mr. Portveldt," said Dolly, hastily drying her eyes.
Steele, "I regret we did not omit something else, and take time to get photographs." "It's not too late," our hostess says. "Oh, no," the Baron interposes. "I go now to get dthem. I vas dthinking if Madame vould like Señorita to choose them." "No; Blanche does seem a little tired. I couldn't let her go.
This is old Spode," he continued, pointing to the cipher on the bottom of each cup. "Vell, I didn't tink dot ven I bought it." There was no greeting, no reference to their having met before. One might have supposed that their last talk had been uninterrupted. "It vas all in a lump, and der vas a soup tureen in de lot I don't know vot I did vid it. I tink dat's up-stairs.
Dere iss no reason ve should nod produce diamonds." "But look here, Schultze," Mr. Latham expostulated, "it's it's unheard of." "So vas der Mizzizzippi River until id was discovered," the German argued complacently. "You are a diamond dealer, Laadham, bud you don'd know much aboud dem from whey dey come at. Iss Czenki here? Send for him. He knows more aboud diamonds as any man vat ever lived."
The boy is an ungracious cub; but he is sound at the core, and I honestly think he is fond of you in his dumb way." After he had left them alone, Cicely dropped down on the floor at Theodora's feet. "Life isn't a straight line; it's horribly squirmy," she said, and her voice vas unusually grave. Theodora drew the brown head against her knee. "What is it, dear?" she asked. "It's only Allyn.
"You see?" leered the Professor jerking his thumb towards the door, "dot man vas trying to do you. He don't like to haf me show you dis golt. He vants you to believe dat here is only silver; but I am a cheologist I know!" "Yes, this is gold," admitted Denver, wetting the thin strip of quartz, "but it don't look like much of a vein. Whereabouts did you get these specimens?"
Sometime ven mine fader und mutter die mit me, und dere vas nopody to gif leetle Johnny notings, vat should he do, if did not come some goot peoples vat take und eat him und sleep him? I don' forget; und how I vas done py, I do mit der oders. Mine wife she vas so goot as a mutter for dem."
"Wait a moment; your rascality will do you no good, and may get you into trouble. I have very little money left." "Den you can leave your vatch till you brings de money." "Ah, thank Heaven! that is safe, and beyond your clutches." "In a pawnshop? or vas he stolen, like de tousand dollar, and you been made give him up?"
His voice grew deep as he proceeded, marking the intense interest with which they followed his recital. Then he unfolded briefly the plan adopted for relief. It was the impulsive Mexican who broke the silence that followed his conclusion. "Si, I see dat!" she exclaimed, leaning eagerly forward, her head between her hands. "Eet vas ver' good vay. But you tink dar be fight soon? You tink so?
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