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The female of his kind came with him a pale girl, shoddy and a little rouged; and they communicated in a nasal argot, mainly insolences and elisions.
The children had gone to school, the butler was otherwise engaged, and there was nobody but a waitress present. Hilbrough's face was of that sunny, sanguine sort which always seems to indicate that things are booming, to borrow a phrase from our modern argot.
And this one was of a type more unique and distinctive than any other a fellow who, with the blood of Saxon kings and Norman nobles in his veins, had known nothing but the street life of the crudest city in the world, who spoke a sort of argot, who knew no parallels of the things which surrounded him in the ancient home he had inherited and in which he stood apart, a sort of semi-sophisticated savage.
"I forgot that you lived in a world unsullied by such argot. You know what a lunger is?" That she did know. It is a term familiar enough in the mountains to which come refugees from the white plague, seeking in the tonic air a healing for their sickened lungs.
They were too busy to do more than nod at Scott and Martyn, and stare curiously at William, who could do nothing except make tea, and watch how her men staved off the rush of wailing, walking skeletons, putting them down three at a time in heaps, with their own hands uncoupling the marked trucks, or taking receipts from the hollow-eyed, weary white men, who spoke another argot than theirs.
No sensible man can envy Asylas, to whom the language of birds was as familiar as French argot to our young décadents. Think how terrible it would be if Nature could all of a sudden learn English! That exquisite mirror of all our shifting moods would be broken for ever. No longer might we coin the woodland into metaphors of our own joys and sorrows.
We're six of one and half a dozen of the other." When this self-proclaimed adventurer was really aroused he dropped the rough argot of the plains. His diction showed even some measure of culture. Meiklejohn walked unsteadily to the door. He opened it. There was no one in the passage without. "I'm sorry," he said in a strangely subdued voice. "What do you want? What do you suggest?"
"And, oh, yes!" she continued happily, "Jim, he lifted a leather from a bull who was standing in the hallway there at Headquarters! Jim sure does love excitement." Mary lifted her dark eyebrows in half-amused inquiry. "It's no use, Agnes," she declared, though without entire sincerity; "I can't quite keep up with your thieves' argot your slang, you know. Just what did this brother of yours do?"
Just as they got to the end of this tunnel, for it could be called nothing else, the light suddenly went out, and they were left in complete darkness. "Light that," cried the detective in a peremptory tone of voice. "What do you mean by dowsing the glim?" Thieves' argot was, evidently, well understood here, for there was a shuffle in the dark, a muttered voice, and someone lit a candle.
It is the slang or argot of music, hot off the griddle for the average man's taste, without complexities or stir to musing and melancholy. The musicians had drunk much wine and rum, and now wanted only beer. That was the order of their carouse. Beer was expensive at two francs a bottle, and so a conscientious native had been delegated to give it out slowly.
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