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If he got any wrinkles in his face, they were stopped up vith the dirt, for both the dirty face and the brown coat wos just the same at the end o' that time as they wos at the beginnin'. He wos a wery peaceful, inoffendin' little creetur, and wos alvays a-bustlin' about for somebody, or playin' rackets and never vinnin'; till at last the turnkeys they got quite fond on him, and he wos in the lodge ev'ry night, a-chattering vith 'em, and tellin' stories, and all that 'ere.
'E ate so much that he became too fat to see to eat his vittels. It was thus that Herr Croll analysed the character of his late master. 'But Ma'me'selle, ah, she is different. She vill never eat too moch, but vill see to eat alvays. Thus too he analysed the character of his young mistress. At first things did not arrange themselves pleasantly between Madame Melmotte and Marie.
Car-roll," she said, in English, "Baron von Sternburg has brought news that compels me to leave Oakwood soon yes, to-morrow. I hope you know how gr-rateful I am to you for your hospitality. Your kindness alvays vill be a br-right spot in my life!" She looked charmingly young and very lovely as she stooped and kissed the old lady's cheek. "To-morrow?
One day I told Magnus Thorkelson about Mrs. Mobley's coming and taking Gowdy away from the little cabin of the Fewkes family. "She do dat," said he, "a dozen times ven Ay bane dar. She alvays bane chasing Buck Gowdy." "Well," I said, "who be you chasing, coming over here a dozen times when I didn't know it? That's why you bought that mustang pony, eh?"
B-O-O-H! The filly makes a sudden jump and ker-flop comes down Mynheer. He jumps up and says, "Hans, I alvays knowed dot you vas a vool. You make too pig a booh; vy, you said booh loud enuff to scare der ole horse. Hans, go pring out der ole horse. Der tam Repel vill be here pefore Mackferson gits pack from der dinner time.
It was all immensely interesting and refreshing after the dark anxieties of the shop. Edna wore a brown straw hat with poppies, that suited her admirably, and sat in the trailer like a queen, and the eight-year-old motor-bicycle ran like a thing of yesterday. Little it seemed to matter to Mr. This sort of thing was alvays going on, and on holidays one disregarded it as a matter of course.
On the wall, near the small looking-glass, hung a round cap with hanging fox's tail such a cap as the half-bloods of our north-western forests wear, and the peasants of the European North as well. Jan smiled as he saw my puzzled look. "It iss vy I say I vill tell it all," he went on in his grave, steady voice. "Ven I see dat it iss to see de North. For, see, it vas not alvays I am in de city. No.
'Them things as is always a-goin' up and down, in the city. 'Omnibuses? suggested Sam. 'Nonsense, replied Mr. Weller. 'Them things as is alvays a-fluctooatin', and gettin' theirselves inwolved somehow or another vith the national debt, and the chequers bill; and all that. 'Oh! the funds, said Sam. 'Ah! rejoined Mr.
He could be princely with it all in his own way. 'You haf learned your pusiness, young Armstrong, he said to Paul when the rush was over. 'I gan deach anypoty his pusiness if he is not a vool. I am Cheorge Dargo. You haf done your work gabidally, and you are vorth fife dimes vot I am baying you. But I alvays like the shady site of a pargain, and I shall only gif you four dimes.
Here shall I not have to be alvays ze Baron von Blitzenberg, oldest noble in Bavaria, hereditary carpet-beater to ze Court! I vill disguise and go mit old Bonker for a frolic!" "You touch my tenderest chord, Baron!" "Goot, goot, my friend!" cried the Baron, warming to his work of confession like a penitent whose absolution is promised in advance; "you speak ze vords I love to hear!
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