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'Well, but what did they mean by hoping Mr. Sponge was fond of walking? at length asked he. 'Oh, vy, replied Mr.
"Vell, if mens iss madt dere, vy dondt you go pelow?" "Good for you, Dutch!" cried Frank. "Hit him again. He's too fresh, anyway." "Where did you get it, Ned?" asked Jimmie. "You'll have to bake it when we get back to New York." "Better look out, lad," Ned replied, "this boy has the kick of a mule in his left. Let him alone."
"Perhaps leaving us to fight our way out of the room was not a serious matter in your estimation, but we think differently," I replied. "Vy, I left on purpose to save ye; and if I hadn't have gone, vere vould you have been now? Dead as a sheep, and no mistake. It ain't the one vot fights the most is the bravest, and hany military man vill tell you that.
After thrusting his hand into the silent and shrunken bosom, he presently looked up and fixed his penetrating eyes upon our hero's countenance, who, benumbed and bedazed with his despair, still stood like one enchained in the bonds of a nightmare. "He vas dead!" said the stranger, and Jonathan nodded his head in reply. "Vy you keel ze man?" inquired his interlocutor.
I 'as a call vithout; but mayhap you'll be a getting it at the butcher's hover the vay, -'cause vy? The butcher 'll be damned! So I goes hover the vay, and the butcher says, says he, 'I 'as not a Bible, but I 'as a book of plays bound for all the vorld just like 'un, and mayhap the poor cretur may n't see the difference. So I takes the plays, Mrs. Margery, and here they be surely!
It is true all marriages depend on money," he added bitterly, "only it is the fashion of police court reporters to pretend the custom is limited to the Jews." "Vell, I did go to Reb Shemuel," said Sugarman "I dought he'd be the very man to arbitrate." "Why?" asked Daniel. "Vy? Hasn't he been a Shadchan himself? From who else shall we look for sympaty?" "I see," said Daniel smiling a little.
"If the firm has hard luck " said Heinzman. "Exactly," finished Newmark. "Vy you come to me?" demanded Heinzman at length. "Well, I'm offering you a chance to get even with Orde. I don't imagine you love him?" "Vat's de matter mit my gettin' efen with you, too?" cried Heinzman. "Ain't you beat me out at Lansing?" Newmark smiled coldly under his clipped moustache.
"Sure!" replied the other. "I will do it myself. Vy did I go through the Commune?" And so the whole family adjourned to the attic, and the little printing outfit was dragged out from under the piles of rubbish. "I used it myself," said the old carpet designer. "But vhen I come here they give me a varning, and I haf not dared. For two years I haf not even been to the meetings of the local."
"Let me out!" came at that moment from what appeared to be the bowels of the earth, causing every one to stand aghast gazing in wonder around and on each other. "Zounds! vy don't you let me out?" shouted the voice again. There was an indication of a tendency to flight on the part of the natives, but Nigel's asking "Where are you?" had the effect of inducing them to delay for the answer.
Like a flash of powder, the girl of the hot-blooded South burst into fresh flame of passion, her foot stamping the floor, her black eyes glowing with unrestrained anger. "Dios de Dios! Eet ees as I thought. He lofe you, not Mercedes. Vy I not kill you? hey?" Miss Norvell met her fiercely threatening look, her single step of advance, without tremor or lowering of the eyes.
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