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After they have exhausted their enthusiasm pointing out to us and praising the beauties of some ancient bronze image or broken-legged statue, we look at it stupidly and in silence for five, ten, fifteen minutes as long as we can hold out, in fact and then ask: "Is is he dead?" That conquers the serenest of them. It is not what they are looking for especially a new guide.
Presently she righted, and then made a stern-board, and came so close to us that one of the hands not only heard our cries but saw us in the water. In an instant the captain called to us to cheer up, and said a boat was coming. 'The ship struck some wreckage, and is making water, he added. We were taken aboard in two trips, the poor, broken-legged sailor suffering terribly.
What summary reprisals were to be made upon old Isaac I did not know, but it was evident that Dodd did not approve of his philosophy, or of my attempt at consolation, so I desisted. You old, blind, broken-legged son of the Evil Spirit! Thwack? What a horse! You merzavitz! What did you run into that tree for? Ecca voron! Podletz! Slepoi takoi!
As soon as it gets dark, we set out the broken-legged table in the middle of the room, and lighting three or four skewers of candle-nuts, amuse or employ ourselves in a variety of ways.
The steps stopped by the fire, and I saw the broken-legged chair lean to the left, with a little jar as its short leg touched the floor. I sat still, frozen, motionless, staring at the vacancy that was filled with such terror for me; and as I looked, the seat of the chair creaked, and it came back to its upright position again.
The story, as he had often reflected since, was as old as lying a broken-legged horse, a wife dying forty miles away, and a horse all saddled which needed only to be mounted and ridden. These thoughts kept him company for a day and when he dismounted before Stevenson's "Hotel" in Hoyt's Corners he summed up his feelings for the enlightenment of his horse. "Damn it, bronc!
George gazed speechless upon the battered and grotesque nightmare before him for the space of thirty seconds, and then wilted to the floor and went into convulsions. John returned presently with a carriage, got the broken-hearted artist and the broken-legged statue aboard, and drove off, whistling low and tranquilly.
"Annybody'd think Fidy's fits was ketchin'," she complained indignantly to Uncle Jed. "That there front room of mine ain't doin' anybody no good," suggested Uncle Jed. "We might let Nance have that." So to Nance's great joy she was given a big room all to herself. The slat bed, the iron wash-stand, the broken-legged chair, and the wavy mirror were the only articles that Mrs.
I rather think the English have given really the more hospitable reception to the maimed Theseus, and his broken-nosed, broken-legged, headless companions, because flouting them with no gorgeous fittings up. We returned to the hotel, and it being too damp and raw to go to our Restaurant des Echelles, we dined at the hotel.
Not once or twice, but a hundred times during my cruising about in Belgium and Germany and France, I laboriously unloaded a string of crippled German nouns and broken-legged adjectives and unsocketed verbs on a hickory-looking sentry, only to have him reply to me in my own tongue.
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