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Chok' it all why, the father of that nobleman that you call chap in the gaiters used to be hand in glove with half the Queen's court. 'What d'ye tell o'? 'That man's father was one of the mayor and corporation of Sandbourne, and was that familiar with men of money, that he'd slap 'em upon the shoulder as you or I or any other poor fool would the clerk of the parish.
The kavass smiled; his look was agreeably mysterious, his manner humbly confidential, his tongue officially deliberate. "Efendina chok yasha May the great lord live for ever! I bring good news." "Leave of absence, eh?" rejoined Dimsdale feebly, yet ironically; for that was the thing he expected now of the Minister, who had played him like a ball on a racquet these three years past.
The clutching figure, bolt upright in the soaked remnant of prison rags, had in that leap and fall shown himself for Chok Chung, the Christian. He had sunk in mystery, to become at one forever with the drunken cormorant-fisher. Obscene delight raged in the crowded boat, with yells and laughter, and flourish of bamboo poles.
The trial of Chok Chung, your our Christian merchant I saw him 'cross the hall. They kept asking, 'Do you follow the foreign dogs and goats? But he would only answer, 'I follow the Lord Jesus. So then they beat out his teeth with a heavy shoe, and cast him into prison. Now they wait, to see if his padre will interfere with the law. It is a trap.
'Afore I went to church for a pike to defend my native country from Boney, I pulled out the spigots of all the barrels, maister; for, thinks I damn him! since we can't drink it ourselves, he shan't have it, nor none of his men. 'But you shouldn't have done it till you was sure he'd come! said the miller, aghast. 'Chok' it all, I was sure! said David.
"Your turnip-hoeing were in the summer and your malting in the winter of the same years, and ye don't ought to count-both halves, father." "Chok' it all! I lived through the summers, didn't I? That's my question. I suppose ye'll say next I be no age at all to speak of?" "Sure we shan't," said Gabriel, soothingly. "Ye be a very old aged person, malter," attested Jan Coggan, also soothingly.
He's at school now. 'Somewhere handy, I suppose? I see there's lots on 'em along this road. 'O no! Not in one of these wretched holes! At a public school one of the most distinguished in England. 'Chok' it all! of course! I forget, ma'am, that you've been a lady for so many years. 'No, I am not a lady, she said sadly. 'I never shall be.
Spoke highly of your hospital work, padre, but said, 'Even good deeds may be misconstrued. In short, gentlemen, without saying a word, he tells us honestly in plain terms, 'Sorry, but look out for yourselves." A beggar rattled his bowl of cash in the road, below; from up the river sounded wailing cries. "Did he mention," said the big padre, presently, "the case against my man, Chok Chung?"
It was Chok Chung, the plump Christian merchant, slowly trudging toward the darkest of human courts, to answer for the death of the cormorant-fisher. The squad passed by. Rudolph saw again the lighted shop, the tumbled figure retching on the floor; and with these came a memory of that cold and scornful face, thinking so cruelly among the unthinking rabble.
This business being satisfactorily concluded, I asked my friend the caimakam if there was any big game to be had. His answer was, 'Chok au Va, which meant there was plenty: and he undertook to beat the neighbouring woods that very day with his men. We were stationed on the outskirts of a splendid oak wood that looked like holding any mortal thing in the way of game.
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