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"I find heem on ze Lunch R-rock, where I step. Eet ees half to you an' lettl' Marian half to ma femme an' ze bébé. You weel find heem?" "Ore?" repeated Ike, doubtingly. "You talking French or English?" "Or! Oui! Een Englees eet ees gol', you say! I find heem back zere by ze Lunch R-rock. Zen some one shoot I no see heem! I not know w'y. One 'bang! I hear an' zat ees all.
"You've not much chance of him now," remarked the hermit, as they all stood in a group gazing up into the tree-top. "I have often seen the mias act thus when severely wounded. He is making a nest to lie down and die in." "Zen ve must shoot again," said the professor, moving round the tree and looking out for a sign of the animal.
There was a fire which burned up the valley of the South Y.D. Fires don't start themselves usually. This one started among the Landson stacks, so it was natural enough to suspec' Y.D. or some of his sympathizers. Well it wasn't Y.D., an' I reckon it wasn't Zen, an' it wasn't Transley nor Linder an' every one of the gang's accounted for excep' Drazk.
The Zen sect, according to its professions and early history, ought to be indifferent to worldly honors and emoluments, and indeed many of its devotees are. Its history, however, shows how poorly mortals live up to their principles and practise what they preach.
Zen could have laughed, or she could have cried, but she did neither. She sensed in some way the fact that to her father this experience was a positive ordeal. So she just slipped her arm through his and whispered, "Of course you'll do, you silly old duffer," and tripped down the stairs by the side of his ponderous steps.
Zen if only, like this road, they could run side by side to the sunset Oh! Zen, if they could?" "I know," she said, and as she raised her face he saw that her eyes were wet. "I know if only they could!" There was a little sob in her voice, and in her beauty and distress she was altogether irresistible.
His friend translated Smith's words. Schwankmacher grunted. "The fact is," continued Smith, "we've run short of petrol, and I had to come down. I hoped to make Apia; that is it, yonder, I suppose?" "Zat is so. You vant petrol. Zen I introduce you to excellent firma vat supply ze Commandant.
"I vill shot zat tiger! I am resolved. Vill you ask zee chief to show me zee place ant zen tell his people, on pain of def, not to go near it all night, for if zey do I vill certainly shot zem by accident of course!" The hermit did as he was bid, but advised his sanguine friend against exposing himself recklessly. The chief willingly fell in with his wishes.
"You might have said next veek." "By next week Miss Maddison may be snapped up by some one else." "Zen vould Tollyvoddle be more lucky! I have nearly got for him ze most charming girl, mit as moch money as he vants. Ach, you do interfere! You should gonsider ze happiness of Tollyvoddle." "That is the only consideration that affects yourself, Baron?" "Of course! I cannot marry more zan vonce."
Zanovitch had refused to make one of Lord Lincoln's bills of exchange payable to Zen, because he did not wish to make himself liable in case the Englishman refused to pay. He wanted to go to England, and told Zen he was at liberty to do the same.
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