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"Two hun-rade an' fifty dollahs or not'in'!" said the indignant Creole, clenching one fist, and with the other hand lifting his hat by the front corner and slapping it down upon the counter. "Ha, ha, ha! a pase of waint a wase of paint! 'Sieur Frowenfel', you don' know not'in' 'bout it! You har a jedge of painting?" he added cautiously. "No, sir." "Eh, bien! foudre tonnerre! look yeh! you know?
The old man leapt down the stairs, and seized Downes. "You're the tyrant as has locked my barn up here!" And a thrashing commenced, which it made my bones ache only to look at. Downes had no chance; the old man felled him on his face in a couple of blows, and taking both hands to his stick, hewed away at him as if he had been a log. "I waint hit a's head! I waint hit a's head!" whack, whack.
It was pathetic, and yet disgusting, to see the abject joy of the poor creature. 'Well, thought Lancelot, 'if he deserves to be wretched, so do I why, therefore, if we are one as bad as the other, should I not make his wretchedness a little less for the time being? 'I waint come a-near the water.
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