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'Insulting a peaceful citizen! in his own house! a friend of your emperor! Gottlieb von Groschen! 'Groschen? We're cousins, then! You wouldn't shut out your nearest kin? Devil's lightning! Don't you know me? Pfennig? Von Pfennig! This here's Heller: that's Zwanziger: all of us Vons, every soul! You're not decided? This'll sharpen you, my jolly King Paunch!
"You know, now you belong to the Prince's household, and live in the King's Palace, you must forget all these boyish follies." "Oh dear!" sighed Frank. "We've got to support the dignity of the establishment as gentlemen in the Prince's train. It wants it badly enough, with all these sausage-eating Vans and Vons and Herrs. We must do it while things are in this state for the sake of old England."
The Yankee chaps vid their rifles 'ave gone vid the green vons, and now the colonel don't care an old button for the rest. An attack vill be made to-night at one o'clock, but don't tell that I said so." We did not promise a compliance with his request, and after a liberal drink of whiskey Steel Spring left us to plot mischief, and to steal whatever he could lay his hands on during the melee.
'Insulting a peaceful citizen! in his own house! a friend of your emperor! Gottlieb von Groschen! 'Groschen? We're cousins, then! You wouldn't shut out your nearest kin? Devil's lightning! Don't you know me? Pfennig? Von Pfennig! This here's Heller: that's Zwanziger: all of us Vons, every soul! You're not decided? This'll sharpen you, my jolly King Paunch!
"Mais oui; vons avez ete mon meilleur ami." "And what, Frances, are you to me?" "Votre devouee eleve, qui vous aime de tout son coeur." "Will my pupil consent to pass her life with me? Speak English now, Frances." Some moments were taken for reflection; the answer, pronounced slowly, ran thus:
"About la tete of de village near de house of Monsieur Gambart." "What like a place is it?" asked McLeod, becoming suddenly much more interested. "Oh! one place mos bootiful," replied Le Rue, with enthusiasm; "de house is superb, de grounds splendeed, et le prospect magnifique, wid plenty of duck perhaps sometimes goose, vild vons in von lac near cliff immense."
Bismarck, on the other hand, is the representative, or rather the business man, of the squirearchy and of the Vons much in the same way as Mr. Disraeli is of the Conservatives in England; and, like the latter, he despises his own friends, and scoffs at the prejudices, a pretended belief in which has served them as a stepping-stone to power.
'Denver is a hard town to do business in, said I. 'In cities, you know, the big people are hard to handle and the little ones you must look out for. That was another strong point; I wanted him to see that I didn't care to do business with shaky concerns. "'Vell, said he after a while, 'you shouldt haf a stronger line and den you could sell de beeg vons.
Be sure I vill take care of zee old vons. But dere is not much fear of anodor flood joost now." "What says he, Liz?" asked old Daddy, with a hand to his ear. "Speak oot." "Oh, he's jist haverin' aboot the flood. He says there's nae fear o' anither flood, an' I think he's aboot right." "I'm no sae sure o' that," returned Daddy, whose memory for the past was much stronger than for current events.
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