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"Oh, ho!" cried the little lady, with supreme disdain; "they don't twist cocks' throats and skin rabbits they have thieved, perhaps, like yours; but they would wring your neck before breakfast to get an appetite, if they could touch such canaille." "Canaille?" thundered the insulted Barbe-Grise. "If you were but a man!" "What would you do to me, brigand?" screamed Cigarette, in fits of laughter.
"I wasn't really frightened so long as I knew you were behind me. Carlo couldn't catch me until he nabbed you." "Carlo! Who's Carlo!" demanded the Sewer Rat, pretending ignorance. "Oh! Ho!" laughed Bumper. "Don't pretend that Carlo, the dog, wasn't after you. Didn't I see him chase you in the hole? And how frightened you looked! Why, it nearly made me die with laughter." Mr.
'E's earned 'is class. It don't come to a chap in the night. 'E's got to slave f'r it slave 'ard. Ho, yuss! Your neffy can ride, an' 'e can s'y wot 'e likes, but if 'e ain't modeled on Billy Garrison 'isself, then I'm a bloomin' bean-eating Dutchman! 'E's th' top spit of Garrison th' top spit of 'im, or may I never drink agyn!"
Our people are hungry, and we must kill many in order to feed them!" "Ho, ho, ho!" agreed all the hunters. "And it is here that we can use our companion hunters best, for the shunkas will intimidate and bewilder the buffalo women," said an old man. "Ugh, he is always right! Our dogs must help us here. The meat will be theirs as well as ours," another added. "Tosh, kola!
The defensive is my line. I shall play no more. I attack no one. Who will accuse Lord Lilburne? Still, Robert is a fool. I must not leave him to himself. Ho! there! Dykeman! the carriage! I shall go to London." Fortunate, no doubt, it was for Philip that Mr. Beaufort was not Lord Lilburne.
"My lord," said D'Artagnan, no longer able to contain himself, "allow me to introduce to you the Chevalier d'Herblay, who wishes as you may have heard to offer his congratulations to your eminence." And he retired, discovering Mazarin, who was in great confusion, to the astonished gaze of Aramis. "Ho! ho!" exclaimed the latter, "the cardinal! a glorious prize!
At this the King rejoiced and went up to the gate and knocked lightly, but heard no answer. So he knocked a second time and a third time, with the same result. Then he knocked loudly, but still no one answered; and he said to himself, 'It must be deserted. So he took courage and entering the vestibule, cried out, 'Ho, people of the palace! I am a stranger and a wayfarer and hungry.
There are many other varieties, at least fifty-seven, and I've sampled fifty-six different sorts in nine hours. Do you realize that it is just nine hours since I walked into the Central Hotel, and the orchestra struck up? Good Lord! Nine hours! And do you remember, Curtis, I said as we came up the harbor that you would have a hell of a good time in New York? Ha, ha! likewise ho, ho! A good time!
If there is any one of the Boston specialists at a hundred a visit who can yank a man out of a serious sickness and put him on his feet quicker than I can, why trot him along, that's all! I want to see him! I've been throwing bouquets at myself for the last ten hours. Ho! ho! Say, Ros, you'll think my head is swelled pretty bad, won't you! Ho! ho!" I asked how the patient was getting on. "Fine!
They all spoke sensibly and well; and when one finished, the others all intimated their approval by crying "Ho!" as a kind of chorus. After a while Shah-co-pee rose; his manner said "I am Sir Oracle." He shook hands with the commanding officer, with the agent and interpreter, and then with some strangers who were visiting the fort. His attitude was perfectly erect as he addressed the officer.
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