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"My child, my daughter, who is not a pauper, but the offspring of a most respecterble woman and respecterbly connected. I'm amazed, I'm dumfoundered, I'm " "Ye're a bit daft, hi'm a-thinkin'." Then to Jane, "Vy don't ye go an' hearn yer salt?" "Jane, I forbid " But it had not taken Jane half a minute to decide between the now jarring domestic powers, and henceforth she would be at Mrs.
"Vy, much of one and not a little of the other!" said the euphonious confidant. "How! speak plain, man; what do you mean?" "Vy, I means, your 'oner, that I can't say vhere he is." "And this," said Brandon, with a muttered oath, "this is your boasted news, is it? Dog! damned, damned dog! if you trifle with me or play me false, I will hang you, by the living God, I will!"
"Noa, noa! not exactly; but I thinks as 'ow " "Pish, you fool!" cried the woman, interrupting him peevishly. "Vy, it is no use desaving me. You knows you has only stepped from my boosing-ken to another, and you has not been arter the book at all. So there's the poor cretur a, raving and a dying, and you " "Let I speak!" interrupted Dummie in his turn.
"Six kinds of paths! Vy I ton't vos " "And then at meals the cook serves only five kinds of dessert pie, fruit, iced cabbage, vinegar sherbit, and hot lardalumpabus. Of course I know you don't like pie and fruit and things like that, but you'll fall dead in love with the lardalumpabus," went on the fun-loving Rover. "Vot is dot lardapusalump ennahow?" queried Hans, scratching his head gravely.
Den she take heem hees head in her hands und she asket heem vat for is it dat blud he got it on hees head, und so he say it is by fightin' he is got it, und she say vy for is he fightin', und he say mit hees cousin he fight, und hees cousin he hit heem so, und she asket heem vy for is hees cousin hit heem, und vy for iss he fightin' mit hees cousin any vay, und den dey bot is cryin'. So I seen dot und den she go by der kitchen und bring vater und vash heem hees head und tie clots round it so nice, und dere dey is talkin', und he tol' her he done it."
"I'm Mart Haney you remember Mart Haney." Siegel grasped the situation. "Sure! Vy, how you vass dis dime, eh! Vell, vell you gome pack in style, ain't it? Your daughter yes?" "My wife," said Haney. Siegel raised a fat arm, which a dirty blue undershirt imperfectly draped, and Bertha shook hands with curt politeness. "Vell, vell, Mart, you must haff struck a cold-mine by now, hah?" "That's what."
It looked like a place that some rubbish had bin flung into in the days before Adam an' Eve was born, an' 'ad been forgotten tee-totally from that time to this. Oh, it was awful! Used to make my marrow screw up into lumps w'en I was used to go there." "But why did you go there at all if you disliked it so much?" I asked. "Vy? because I 'adn't got no better place to go to.
"Ve vill hont an' shot togezzer, mine frond," he said, on making this discovery, "ant I vill show you v'ere de best bootterflies are to be fount Oh! sooch a von as I saw to but, excuse me, Van der Kemp. Vy you come here joost now?" "To save you," said the hermit, with a scintillation of his half-pitiful smile.
"I say, Meester Pepper," said Dummie, clearing his throat, when he had obeyed the request, "can you tell I, if so be you 'as met in your travels our little Paul? Poor chap! You knows as 'ow and vy he was sent to quod by Justice Burnflat. Vel, ven he got out, he vent to the devil, or summut like it, and ve have not 'card a vord of him since.
Cibot told us that he was going out of his mind," resumed Jolivard. "Bons! out off his mind!" cried Schmucke, terror-stricken by the idea. "Nefer vas he so clear in der head... dat is chust der reason vy I am anxious for him." The little group of persons listened to the conversation with a very natural curiosity, which stamped the scene upon their memories.