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If, as you say, there was gold in the jar and it is now gone, all I can say is, the stronger has overcome the weaker, and that in this case the gold has either been converted into olives or into oil. What can I do? The jar you gave me I returned to you." Hadji Hussein admitted this, and fully appreciated that he had no case against the Jew, so saying: 'Chok shai! he returned to his home.
"Well, then, you try and be a first-chop boy too, Chok, an' it'll be better for you. Now, you see, you've kep' us all waiting for full half an hour, though we was so anxious to try how the dress answers." In a few minutes the son of Erin and the Chinaman entered the half ruinous pagoda which was their habitation.
"Oh master!" reported Sali, in trembling tones, "Nature has reversed herself, for the heavens are now like the scowling face of your slave, and the earth is like yours, white, entirely white." "Chok shai! wonderful thing. Then I have lost not only that beautiful animal but my own horse as well. Oh pity! Oh pity!"
"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.
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.
"He favoreth his forebears; how can he help it?" kind people exclaimed, when they knew him. And the servants of the house excused themselves when condemned for putting up with him, "Yo know not what 'a is, yo that talk so. He maun get 's own gait, lestwise yo wud chok' un." Being too valuable to be choked, he got his own way always.
"Now then, Chok and Ram," said Rooney, sitting down on a stool and making the two men stand before him like a small awkward squad, "I'm goin' to taich you about pumps an' pumpin', so pay attintion av ye plaze. Hids up an' ears on full cock! Now then."
"Well," cried their guest when they entered, "I said to myself when I zeed ye coming so loving up to the door, 'They made up their minds at last, then!" They briefly hinted that they had not. "What and ha'n't ye really done it? Chok' it all, that I should have lived to see a good old saying like 'marry in haste and repent at leisure' spoiled like this by you two!
So bang he goes down the pole, gloriously drunk, marches into his enemy's shop, and uses that knife. The joke is now on the merchant, eh?" "Just a moment," begged the padre. "One thread I don't follow the religion. Who was Christian? The merchant?" "Well, rather! Thought I told you," said Heywood. "One of yours big, mild chap Chok Chung." The elder man sat musing.
"Hee's not fonny dat she bre'ks t'rough," he said. "I 'ave see dem bre'k t'rough two, t'ree tam in de day, but nevaire dat she get drown! W'en dose dam-fool can't t'ink wit' hees haid sacre Dieu! eet is so easy, to chok' dat cheval she make me cry wit' de eye!" "I suppose it was a good deal my fault," commented Radway, doubtfully shaking his head, after Laveque had left the office.
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