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"Pooh!" "Yes, she is the only heir to the old bill-discounter Gobseck. Derville will verify the facts. If your mistress' mother was the handsome Dutch woman, la Belle Hollandaise, as they called her, she comes in for " "I know dat she is," cried the banker. "She tolt me all her life. I shall write ein vort to Derville."
I will give you sell you a piece of advice?" "Is it vort one tousand crowns your atvice?" asked Nucingen. "I am not to be caught, Monsieur le Baron," answered Louchard. "You are in love, you want to discover the object of your passion; you are getting as yellow as a lettuce without water.
It ees ver apropos of saircumstance, said the French-. man ver judgment but it is in the catholique country dat dey build dc vat you call ah a ah-ha la grande cathédrale de big church. St. Paul, Londre, is ver fine; ver belle; ver grand vat you call beeg; but, Monsieur Ben, pardonnez-moi, it is no vort so much as Notre Dame. Ha! mounsheer, what is that you say? cried Benjamin; St.
"'Ja, dat is droo, said the Jewess; 'but dey might let me bring my dings mit me. Do-morrow is Ky-fox-tay. Now I lose my money. "'How is that, Mrs. Kosminsky? I asked. "'Pecause I shall sell dem not, de dings vot I buy for Ky-fox-tay; de fireworks, de gragers, de masgs and oder dings vor de chiltrens. Dvendy-vaive shillings vort I buy. Dey are in my room on ze zecond floor.
Oh! let me up!" "Hole your mout, and shpeak ven you is shpoken mit," said Johnny. "Tony, shpeak an' tell me. How vas it? You is cut off Matty's head; you is got de monish, five tollars, vat I tells you he is vort; now tell me what for you gifs dis five tollars to dis pad poy, a poy so vorse as I do not know. I vill haf you tell me; if no, I calls de police."
"Is that man really the Baron de Nucingen?" asked Europe to Louchard, giving weight to the doubt by a gesture which Mademoiselle Dupont, the low comedy servant of the Francais, might have envied. "Yes, mademoiselle," said Louchard. "Yes," replied Contenson. "I shall be answerable," said the Baron, piqued in his honor by Europe's doubt. "You shall 'llow me to say ein vort to her."
"Ask for it for me; get the Comte de Gondreville to interest himself in the matter with some degree of warmth and you will thus repay me for the service I am about to do you. I ask your word only; for, if you fail me, sooner or later you will curse the day you were born you have Peyrade's word for that." "I gif you mein vort of honor to do vat is possible."
Talk to me 'bout zis t'mor', Woffski. Subjec's too 'mportant to be d'scussed unner present conditions." "Nein! nein! You can safe der vorlt uf you vill. Von vort from you vill mean peace. Midoutdt dot vort oceans of plood vill be spill." "Woffski, you ev'dently zhink I zhrunker'n I am. I'm some zhrunk, Woffski, I know, some zhrunk, but 'taint 's bad's you zhink." "I vill sbeak more blain."
Lindau threw back his great old head and laughed, showing a want of teeth under his mustache. He put his hand on March's back. "This poy he was a poy den wars so gracy to pekin reading Heine that he gommence with the tictionary bevore he knows any Grammar, and ve bick it out vort by vort togeder."
Oh, just because I tink you have got someting vort a great lot of money. Dot little black stone you showed me; long time ago, you know." Here Captain Flett interposed, speaking with Isaac in Dutch. A long conversation followed in that language, during which Flett asked me for my viking's stone. The old Jew took the talisman in his long fingers.
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