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"Id's stealing from our freunds, Yacob. Besides, if der oder heirs should go before der government mit der story. Vat den?" "Der oder heirs vill never get der chance, boys. Dey vill die mit der plague ha, ha! Sure! Dere von't be no oder heirs. Rasula says it must be so. Ve can'd vait, boys. It vill be years before der business is settled.
She ought to be ashamed." "Well, what about you, you danged old stiff?" inquired Denver with ill-concealed scorn. "If Old Bunk had seen you he'd have killed you." "Ah him?" scoffed the Professor, "no, he von't hurt nobody. Lemme tell you something now dis is a fact. When he married his vife and she's an awful fine lady all she asked vas dat he'd stop his tammed fighting. You see?
"But vere'll be the use o' vinnin'? you von't live to pay me." "Never fear," replied Ben, gravely; "dead or alive I'll pay you, if I lose. There's my thumb upon it. Come along, master." "I tell 'ee what, landlord," observed the old sailor, quietly replenishing his pipe from a huge pewter tobacco-box, as the waterman and Wood quitted the house, "you've said good-b'ye to your friend."
But Vanslyperken argued in his mind that his grounds of complaint would be weakened, if he partook of the refreshment which he had been forced to pay for, so he resolutely denied. "Von't you listen to my harguments, Mr Vanslyperken?" continued the woman. "Well, then, I must resort to the last, which I never knew fail yet."
We began to talk about Sam Kimper; and I want you to promise me that you won't talk to anybody else about his needing liquor, and about his breaking down in the course of time unless he gets it." "Of course I von't talk about it, deacon. Do you s'pose I'm a fool? Do you s'pose I vant to see people get drunk? No, sir; people dat gets drunk don't come to my shop.
I declare you Northerns seem to think all the world are asleep except yourselves; howsomever, I von't quarrel with you you're a goodish sort of chap in your way, and so long as I keep the swag, we carn't get far wrong.
"Yes, but you stole another two pounds," said Becky. "How do you know?" said Sugarman startled. Becky winked and shook her head sapiently. "Never you mind." The published list of the winning numbers was so complex in construction that Sugarman had ample opportunities of bewildering his clients. "I von't sell you no more tickets," said Sugarman with righteous indignation.
The man, aware of the purpose of the constable, exclaimed with great vehemence, "I vill give this to my lord the judge, blow me if I von't!" and as he spoke he raised high above his head a soiled scrap of paper folded awkwardly in the shape of a letter.
Otto at the moment was in tow of a stout lady in furs, who had changed her mind half a dozen times in the hour and would change it again, Otto thought, when, as she said, she would "return with her husband." "Vich she von't do," he chuckled, addressing his remark to the newcomer, "and I bet you she never come back.
"Yah, Ay tank Ay kin; but Ay von't not yat." "What do you mean?" cried the exasperated girl, as she flung herself into a chair. But without deigning to answer, Big Lena turned heavily into the kitchen, and closed the door with a bang that impoverished invective for volumes may be spoken in the banging of a door. The moment was inauspicious for the entrance of Harriet Penny.
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