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These situations and these postures, so widely disproportioned, plead of themselves with all the force of evidence, the cause of those who are really and truly 'laterales regis' against this 'vas electum' of the third estate.
"It's a long story, or I'd tell you how; but he has not a pair in the world till he gets back to Brussels, unless you can lend him one." "Lost hees br-?" and he opened his eyes wide, and looked at me with astonishment. "Yes, yes, exactly so," said I, interrupting him. "Most astonishing thing, isn't it? But it's quite true." "Vas hees money in de pocket?" asked my auspicious landlord. "No, no, no.
But Monsieur Froissart, he vas von ver big vat you call fool he vas von ver great big donce like yourself for he lef la belle France for come to dis stupide Amerique and ven he get here he went and ave von ver stupide, von ver, ver stupide sonn, so I hear, dough I not yet av ad de plaisir to meet vid him neither me nor my companion, de Madame Stephanie Lalande.
I vas a rag-merchant. So now I 'solved, since the secret vas all in my hown keeping, to keep it as tight as vinkey; for first, you sees as 'ow I vas afeard I should be hanged if I vent for to tell, 'cause vy?
"By what marks do you know him? Why is he not the man he claims to be, the son of the plaintiff?" "Oh, I know heem all right. Meester Craikmile's son, he vos more white in de face. Hees hair vas more more I don' know how you call dot crooked on hees head yet." Nels put his hand to his head and caught one of his straight, pale gold locks, and twisted it about.
'Ah, he will say, 'yah ochen rrad vasveedyat, kak vui pazhavaetye? which in the United States means 'How do you do? to which she will reply, 'Blogadaru vas, yah ochen korosho, or 'very well, thank you. It is the knockout. A fellow has to shake hands so much that some of them are getting the habit around the company.
You not all ofer de vorl. Dey vas bot' coom back, dot's all," and so they parted. Every one was glad and rejoiced over the return of the young men, with a sense of relief that resulted in hilarity, and no one would leave until he had had a chance to grasp the hands of the "boys."
All the accounts I received concurred in assuring me that their situation vas dreadful: However; without counting the wreck which escaped from the disasters of Leipsic, and the ravages of disease; without including the 280,000 men which had been raised by a 'Senatus-consulte, on the application of Maria Louisa, the Emperor still possessed 120,000 good troops; but they were in the rear, scattered along the Elbe, shut up in fortresses such as Dantzic, Hamburg, Torgau, and Spandau.
"Vel," and the fellow filled his glass deliberately, "It vas sold me six months before by a fellow vat had a black beard " "Dupont?" "Dat vos de name ov de fellar, yes. Now I know it. I saw him here again soon. You know him?" "By sight only; he is not the original owner, nor the man I am trying to trace. You know nothing of where he got the bag, I presume?"
It vas a dark night, the night I found 'im, vith vind and rain, and there vos me and 'im a-grappling on the edge of a vharf leastvays I vere a-holding onto 'is leg, d'ye see ah, and a mortal 'ard struggle it vere too, and in the end I didn't save 'im arter all." "What do you mean?"
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