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Moritz, and the little German, on a very fraternal footing, was still talking as the party descended from the intérieur. He spoke of the butterflies the day before in Pontresina, and he laughed with delight as he recounted. "Vorty maybe der vas, vifty der vas, mit der diligence vlying along; und der brittiest of all I catch; he vill come at my nose"
But such is the world. And thus the people at Stiffelkind's used to tease me, until they drove me almost mad. At last he came home one day more merry and abusive than ever. "Gaptain," says he, "I have goot news for you a goot place. Your lordship vill not be able to geep your garridge, but you vill be gomfortable, and serve his Majesty." "Serve his Majesty?" says I. "Dearest Mr.
"Gad's life, Mr. Carvel, I'm deuced sorry this should have happened. Will you come with me?" "Exguse me, your honour!" cried the other visitor. "Now, what the plague, Aaron!" says he; "you wear out the stairs. Come to-morrow, or the day after." "Ay, 'tis always 'to-morrow' with you fine gentlemen. But I vill bring the bailiffs, so help me "
"Stand avay, man!" he added to the constable, who now laid hand on his collar. "You'll see vot the judge says to that 'ere bit of paper; and so vill the prisoner, poor fellow!"
Then I vill not only print your paper, I vill get you large profits from extra printing. Vith a man of great business talent at the head of it " De Haan made a threatening movement, and Pinchas edged away from the proximity of the coal-scuttle. "Gluck's our printer!" said De Haan peremptorily. "He has Hebrew type. We shall want a lot of that.
I think, also, my dear fellow, that our friend Iago is too communicative, not only to such a noodle-pate as Roderigo, but to the many-headed monster the Pit. He comes forward, and exactly in the same way as M. Philippe informs his audience "Now I vill show you a ver' vonderful trick.
"I hope, my vriends," said Von Baumser, "dat you vill allow me the honour of going first, for ven I vas in the Swabian Jager I vas always counted a very good spion." "That is my place," said Tom with decision. "You have the best claim," the major answered. "What a train this is! Ged, it's as slow as the one which Jimmy Travers, of the Commissariat, travelled in in America.
It ish against my rules, and if I proke tem for you I vill have to do so for every body." Mrs. Wentworth's heart sank within her at the determined manner in which he expressed his refusal. Without replying she moved towards the door, and was about to leave the room when she thought of the bedstead, on the sale of which she now depended.
It not being Herman's way to bother with greetings, she had passed him on the porch without a word, and that night, winding a clock before closing the house, he spoke to her for the first time. "There is a performance at the Turnverein Hall to-morrow night. Rudolph vill take you." "I don't like Rudolph." "Rudolph viii take you," he had repeated, stolidly. And she had gone.
"Now are ve named!" cried the Baron, his courage rising the higher for the shock it had sustained. "And you vunce more vill be Bonker? Goot!" "That satisfies you?" The Baron hesitated. "My dear friend, I have a splendid idea! Do you know I did disgover zere used to be a nobleman in Austria really called Count Bonker? He vas a famous man; you need not be ashamed to take his name.
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