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"It does seem so, boys, as I've told the neighbours, all along. But I'll tell this Dutchman all about it. Some folks want the State to look a'ter the title of young Littlepage, pretending he has no title." "But der State wilt do dat widout asking for it particularly, vill it not?" "I never heard that it would." "If anybody hast a claim to der broperty, vilt not der courts try it?"
Is that to be borne in a free country? They'd hardly stand that in Jarmany, I'm thinkin'. A man that is such an aristocrat us to refuse to sell anything, I despise." "Veil, dey stand to der laws in Charmany, and broperty is respected in most coontries. You vouldn't do away wid der rights of broperty, if you mights, I hopes?"
Hugh Littlepage is rich, and his money gives him advantages that other men can't enj'y. Now, that sticks in some folks' crops." "Oh! den it ist meant to divite broperty in dis coontry; und to say no man might haf more ast anudder?" "Folks don't go quite as far as that, yet; though some of their talk does squint that-a-way, I must own.
My uncle, somewhat indiscreetly, I fancied, but by merely following the chain of thought then uppermost in his mind, detained him in conversation. "Dis broperty," he said, inquiringly, "is de broperty of one Yeneral Littlepage, I hears say?" "Not of the General, who was Madam Littlepage's husband, and who has long been dead, but of his grandson, Mr. Hugh." "Und vhere might he be, dis Mr.
I do wish Hugh were at home; I am certain he would contrive to get it, and make it a present to me!" "Nein, nein, young lady," put in the pedlar, who, a little unceremoniously, had followed the girls into the room, though he knew, of course, precisely where he was coming; "dat might not be. Dat chain is der broperty of my son, t'ere, und I haf sworn it shalt only be gifen to his wife."
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