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Excusing himself to his host, Ulwin, and to some of the officers with whom he had been chatting, the leader of the submarine boys went quickly to the coat-room for his hat, then descended in the elevator. "Vairee strange place, zis, for a lady to follow a zhentleman to hees club," drawled a French captain.
The dark young man puts another query. "What's it all about?" says Mrs. Steele; "you promised to interpret." "Oh, yes, if I must. Dthis zhentleman ask if dthis young lady ees my wife and if she like roses." "Oh, let us see the roses," says Mrs. Steele, calmly ignoring the wretch's prevarication, for I know to the first question he said "Yes."
The Peruvian's brows contract he looks ferocious in the extreme and I am a little sorry I mentioned the Captain. "Dthat Capitan ees von fool! He know not how to treat a zhentleman. I tell him I make a procès to dthe company and get him reprimand for how he spik to me." "Why, what did he say?" asks Mrs. Steele.
"How dare you; you are no gentleman!" "No, I am a loaver, Blanca, not von cold Nordthern zhentleman, who haf so leedle heart it can be hush, and zo dthin, poor blood it nefer rush fire at a voman's touch. Blanca, I haf been still for days, vaiting for dthis hour. I loaf you, darling, till all my life is nodthing but von longing I loaf you till I haf no conscience, no religion but my loaf.
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