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He had turned round to them all, with his hands outstretched, appealing: "But it's not true!" he cried between his sobs, "it's not true! I did all I could to stop them I did not know that they would do things not really until now, this morning, when it was too late. It is the others, Sergius, Paslov, Odinsky zey were always wild, desperate. But we, the rest of us, with us it was only tall words."
"How zey feroce like ze volf, eh? How zey are very mosh hunger. Eat you, my young vrens. Eat you, my young son of ze Jonas Ugglee-stone. I know you fader. He is mon ami. Aha! I drink your helse all of you varey." He poured himself out a little dram of the spirit and tossed it off.
It's getting late." They went up stairs, leaving the buzz of much talk behind them, for many of the hotel guests were speaking of the news concerning our friends. As Cora was entering her apartment, Inez came out into the corridor in front of her room. "Zey are gone, Senorita!" she gasped. "Gone!"
"By Jove," lamented the duke, water running down his neck in floods. "What a luxury a home is, be it ever so humble, on a night like this." "Mon Dieu! Mon Dieu!" groaned the count. "How comfortab' zey look. And here? Eh bien! Qui fait trembler la terre! I am seeck! I die!" "Penelope is out in all this," moaned his lordship. "I am not so sure of that.
Ven I come to my own country and go to ze town I ask, 'Where live Kustaf Mayer who was farmer to ze Count von Zomerblat? ant zey answer me, 'Graf Zomerblat is deat, ant Kustaf Mayer live now in ze pig street, ant keep a public-house. So I tress in my new waistcoat and one noble coat which ze manufacturist presented me, arranged my hairs nice, ant go to ze public-house of my Papa.
But you do not know. We are how you say persecute all ze time. Zey own Alsace, but zey do not love Alsace. It is like it is like ze stepfather you see?" she added, her voice breaking. "So zey have always treat us." For a few seconds Tom stood, awkward and uncomfortable; then clumsily he reached out his hand and took hers.
'Mais, it would be ze madness! exclaimed an elderly Frenchman, with a gray imperial and a blood-stained bandage around his head. 'Zey would sink us. 'So they would under ordinary circumstances, agreed the captain. 'But the night and more than that the fog are in our favour. Besides this launch is Turkish, and we have several people aboard who can speak the language.
"Inspector Nettings," Hewitt said ceremoniously, "allow me to introduce Mr. César Rameau!" Netting's gasped. "What!" he at length ejaculated. "What! You you're Rameau?" The negro looked round nervously, and shrank farther from the door. "Yes," he said; "but please not so loud please not loud. Zey may be near, and I'm 'fraid."
"And so was my father he belong to ze reform party but the others zey of ze old regime zey like not reform in Sea Horse Island," chattered Inez. "Zey lose too much money zereby. So my father he is in prison, and I am here!" she finished, softly. "Well, it's all dreadfully mixed up," sighed Cora, "and I believe it will take your father, Belle, to straighten out some of the tangle.
I dare say after they have thought a little longer over it, zey will agree with you that it is foolish to be so enthusiastic about this fellow Percivail, and the whole project will dissolve into thin air." Her hand was on the latch. She met Ruth's harassed, unhappy gaze with her indolent, almost insolent, smile.
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