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"VOT!" And then, "Vy man, you're crazy!" He turned upon me, his eyes wide with dismay. "Billy! Dey got a report Carpenter is shoost now speakin' to a mob on de steps of de City Hall!" The magnate did not wait to see me jump out of my chair or to hear my exclamations, but turned again to the telephone. "My Gawd, man! Vot do I know about it?
"Why?" quickly asked the mother. "They cannot find him." "Vy don't they finds him?" asked Jacob Relstaub, banging his cane again and glaring fiercely at the youth, as though ready to spring upon him. Deerfoot looked calmly in the forbidding countenance, and asked, more directly than was his custom: "Are you the father of my brother, Otto?" "Yaw; of course I ish.
But there isn't much to do at Westminster while the ballot is going on; so I came up, just to look at the letters. The dinner went off pretty well yesterday, eh? 'Uncommon; nothing better. Vy did the Lord Mayor stay away, Melmotte? 'Because he's an ass and a cur, said Mr Melmotte with an assumed air of indignation. 'Alf and his people had got hold of him.
So saying, the tinker slid his panniers on the ground, gave a grunt of release and satisfaction, and seated himself with great composure on the stile from which Leonard had retreated. "But, dash my wig," resumed Mr. Sprott, as he once more surveyed Leonard, "vy, you bees a rale gentleman, now, surely! Vot's the dodge, eh?" "Dodge!" repeated Leonard, mechanically, "I don't understand you."
The prisoner put down the glass wearily and wiped his forehead with the back of his hand. Though the room was bitterly cold, the perspiration stood out in beads on his brow. "I have told the trewth, sir," he said hoarsely, "and it goes against me, don't it? Hafen't I not gif myself op to the policeman? Couldn't I not haf drop the svag and ron away? For sure! And vy didn't I not do it?
"Vy you not put more vatter on 'im?" shouted the foreigner. The stern countenance of the fireman relaxed, and a humorous smile lit up his countenance for one instant; but he took no other notice of the foreigner, who was quickly collared by two policemen as strong as himself, and thrust back into the crowd, where he was received with laughter, and presented with much good advice.
"It seems like a dream," remarked the young Kentuckian; "a few minutes ago, there was no escape for us, and now I cannot think we are in the least danger." "Who dinks dot de Shawanoes comes over der river after us?" asked Otto. "Nobody besides Deerfoot: there isn't anything that he doesn't think of that is worth thinking about." "Den vy he leaves us, when we leaves him?"
"Ach was! hardly at all... the tread, 'e vos so light like a woman's..." "Like a woman's, eh!", repeated the Chief, as if talking to himself, "Why do you think that?" "Because for vy it vos so gentle! The' staircase, she haf not sqveak as she haf sqveak when I haf creep away!" The Chief turned to the plain clothes man. "You can take him away now, officer," he said. Barney sprang up trembling.
De Lacy; "A says he has cultivated them in order to 'plant out' his ugliness." "But vy you no talk, Monsieur de Dauphin?" said the Linettini gently, turning to Percy; "you ver silent." "Unhappily, I have been so long out of town that these anecdotes of the day are caviare to me."
Vell, dey can have deir fun how de hell's a feller like me gonna git time to know about writers? Vy, only twelve years ago, Maw here and me vas carryin' pants in a push-cart fer a livin', and we didn't know if a book vas top-side up or bottom ain't it, Maw?" Maw certified that it was though I thought not quite so eagerly as her husband.
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