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When young Poons would thank Miss Husted for these attentions in the choicest German that lady would turn on him and tell him to mind his own business, and he would smile and bow deferentially to her, saying, "Ja, Frau Hooston." As the weeks went on, the struggle for Von Barwig to pay expenses became greater and greater.
Peter had opened his eyes and his mouth, and had got as far as 'Allemachtig', when I shut him up. 'Brandt, I said, 'Cornelis Brandt. That's my name now, and don't you forget it. Who is the captain here? Is it still old Sloggett? 'Ja, said Peter, pulling himself together. 'He was speaking about you yesterday. This was better and better.
"Ja," I said; and then perceiving it was the wrong word, hastily amended in English, "I mean nein." He looked at me for a moment more carefully. Then deciding that all was well he went on. "England," he said, "is our natural ally. She is of the same blood, the same faith, and the same colour. Behold the other races of the world, and they are either partly, chiefly, or altogether black.
He made room for Barry on his own blanket, and his deep rumbling voice droned in the skipper's ear, gradually soothing that harassed shipmaster until he subsided to the influence of the beneficent Goliath. "Soon I shall tell you, Captain," said Houten. "Yoost now I say all iss vell, ja.
Their vast stomachs beat together in a vain encounter. "Zu enge!" said one, and "Ja, zu enge!" said the other, and they laughed innocently in each other's' faces, with a joy in their recognition of the corridor's narrowness as great as if it had been a stroke of the finest wit. All the way the land was lovely, and as they drew near Nuremberg it grew enchanting, with a fairy quaintness.
"You hear, Simon: Moe Bergenthal, who sells shirtwaists for you right this minute, can afford to send his daughter to Europe." "Ja, I guess that's why he sells shirtwaists for me instead of for himself." "See, papa, she " "That's right, get him cornered, ma! Go to it, Miriam!" "Du, du good-for-nothings dude, du!" "Be a sport, pa!" "Ach, Simon " "Ach, you women make me sick!
The Pellucidarians themselves are rather punctilious about this same matter, so the Sagoth could understand that I might possibly be speaking the truth. But he could not understand why we should not kill them unless we meant to enslave them, which I had as much as denied already when I had promised to set them free. Ja couldn't exactly see the wisdom of my plan, either.
However, there was a certain smile on the lips of Reis Hamed, and he answered with a very hearty, 'Ja! ja! Madame. Upon my soul I will let no harm come to you or the pretty little ones, nor the young vrouwkins either, if they will keep close. You are safe by treaty.
He dropped into silence, and a little brook that ran over the stones near by babbled as it went. The boy raised his eyes. "And he had a lute," he prompted softly. "Ja, he had a lute and while the mill-wheel turned, he played the lute sweet, true notes and tunes he played in that old mill." The boy smiled contentedly. "And now we be a hundred Bachs. We make music for all Germany. Come!"
At last I heard Ja shouting to the survivors in the dugouts they were all quite close to us now offer-ing them their lives if they would surrender. Perry was standing close behind Ja, and I knew that this merciful action was prompted, perhaps commanded, by the old man; for no Pellucidarian would have thought of showing leniency to a defeated foe.
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