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"I wish to speak wiz you on some beezness, Meester Burnit," she told him abruptly, and with an imperatively beckoning hand stepped back with a bow for him to enter. With just a moment of surprised hesitation he stepped into the room, whereupon the Villenauve promptly closed the door.
It is a good sign, you know, if a man has been with a house a long time. "'How's beezness this season? said he. "'Oh, it's holding up to the usual mark, I said like an old timer. "'Who do you sell in Denver? said he. "That was a knocker.
"Afraid? no, no what I can do I can do there is no Pandiani to scold me if they not satisfied that is my own beezness is it right? oh, I say to you, Leo, if you hear Pandiani when I refuse to go to Malta you think you know the Neapolitan deealet dialect? no, it is not good for you to know all the wicked words of Naples and he is old and evil-tempered it is no matter.
The anxiety of Señora Blanco was evidently excessive. She rejected such commonplace reasons as that her husband might have lost his way, or that some unlooked-for business matters had claimed his attention. "No, no!" she repeated, almost hysterically; "no beezness. Ah, Dios! El está muerte."
"More beezness?" she said, with a smile that showed a gleam of her pretty teeth; the sound of the word had tickled her ear, somehow; more than once, as the cab rolled away down Kensingtonwards, he could hear her repeat to herself "beezness! beezness!"
"Oh, yes, I have time," said he, "but you must not say booziness, Nina? it is bizness." "Beezness! beezness!" she said, smiling. "It is enough of beezness. You go for a walk with me yes?
Hey, dere, you, Tonita, how goes you' beezness? "Pralines, pralines! Holy Father, you give me dat blessin' sho'? Tak' one, I know you lak dat w'ite one. It tas' good, I know, bien. "Pralines, madame? I lak' you' face. What fo' you wear black? You' lil' boy daid? You tak' one, jes' see how it tas'. I had one lil' boy once, he jes' grow 'twell he's big lak' dis, den one day he tak' sick an' die.
'How long haf you been in deese beezness? 'Five years, said I. 'Always mit de same house? 'Yes, said I, 'I don't believe in changing. The old man had let his cigar go out and he lit a match and let it burn his finger. I was sure that he was after me then. "I didn't tell him that I had been a stock boy for nearly four years and on the road a little over one.
"Nutting, sare!" replied an alien tongue, a gleam of good teeth in the shadow of his great soft hat. "I been see Mistare Le-vie in ze 'ouse, on ze beezness, shentlemen." "Seen him, have you? Then if I were you I should make a decent departure," said Raffles, "by the gate " to which he pointed with increased severity of tone and bearing.
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