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I have lent my monish a tousand times, and never once they did offer it me back. Vell, I will take it, sar." "But how much must I give you, Mr Emmanuel, for the ten days' loan?" "How moch vy you remember, you vill give de bond money de fifteen hundred." "What! five hundred pounds interest for ten days, Mr Emmanuel; no, no, that's rather too bad.
While Otto's face was away from his master, the latter stalked around in his front, where, taking the pipe from his dusky lips, he repeated his order, by means of gesture. "I vonder if he don't make a top mit me," muttered Otto; "vy don't he tie von string round me and spin me dot way?" But the boy was not in a situation to refuse, and, when ordered to walk, he did so.
Is it de dance of de Saint itusse dat you ave? If not like me, vat for vy buy de pig in the poke?" "You wretch!" said I, catching my breath "you you you villainous old hag!" "Ag? ole? me not so ver ole, after all! Me not one single day more dan de eighty-doo." "Eighty-two!" I ejaculated, staggering to the wall "eighty-two hundred thousand baboons!
Approaching Sergeant A. S. Horsley, he said, "Vy ish you got nodings mit your knapsack? Sir, you must have somedings mit your knapsack." Alf ran into his tent and came back with his knapsack in the right shape. Well, old Owleydousky thought he would be smart and make an example of Alf, and said, "I vish to inspect your clodings."
"Vy, you've on'y got to go and marry the young lady, w'en, of course, all her property becomes yours, Punch included, don't you see?" "True, Slidder; it had not occurred to me in that light," said I, laughing heartily, as much at the cool and quiet insolence of the waif's manner as at his suggestion. "But then, you see, there are difficulties in the way.
"But vy dis minute?" asked he. "Bless me, my sweetheart, you must give it to her in a little satin box wrapped round a fan. You must say, 'Here, madame, is a fan which I hope may be to your taste. You are supposed to be a Turcaret, and you will become a Beaujon." "Charming, charming!" cried the Baron. "I shall be so clever henceforth. Yes, I shall repeat your vorts."
But still Carpenter shook his head! "Vould you mind tellin' me vy, Mr. Carpenter?" "Not at all. You tell me that I may quell mobs for you. But there are mobs in your business that I could not quell." "Vot mobs?" "Among others, yourself." "Me?" "Yes you are a mob; a mob of money! You storm the souls of men, and of women too. It will take a stronger force than I to quell you."
"Well, perhaps not; but she will ruin me if she can." "Vat vash her name?" said Lazarus. "Moggy Salisbury." "Paah! is dat all? vy, my good friend, she is one of us. Dere, you may go vay you may go to bed, Mr Vanslyperken." "What do you mean?" "I mean dat she laughed at you, and frighten you dat she is one of us, and so is her husband, who vas in your chip.
While he stood with his finger to his lip, undecided and musing, but fully resolved at least on one thing, not to return to the Mug, little Dummie, who was a good-natured fellow at the bottom, peered up in his face, and said, "Vy, Paul, my kid, you looks down in the chops; cheer up, care killed a cat!"
"Vy, Lort Cornvallis to be sure a very fat yong nobeman, vid red hair: he squints a little, and svears dreadfully." "There's no Lord Cornvallis here," said one; and there was a pause. "Stop! I have it," says that odious Bunting. "IT MUST BE STUBBS!" And "Stubbs! Stubbs!" every one cried out, while I was so busy at my book as not to hear a word.
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