United States or Togo ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
The first thing in the morning, as he would be having the honour to friser his Countly Highness, he would take an opportunity of laying the whole matter before him, and would also take the liberty of begging him, as an uncle regardful of his niece's best interests, to represent to her that the Herr Baron's declaration of love was merely a species of "flourish" belonging to the "tour" which he happened to be executing at the time just as declarations of the kind generally were.
This was his great adventure, the thing that had gleamed in his eyes and had tapped that unguessed reservoir of strength. His voice crept back to me, harassed by the wind, "This velly funny countly, Mista Boy. Mista Yen Sin go back China way." His bow-line was fast to an iron ring on the wharf.
The new baked countess will be as well received at my court as Count Neal will at yours." He gave the queen his hand, she laid hers unwillingly within it, and whispered: "Ah, my son, you have cruelly overreached me." "Madame, we secure in this way three millions for Prussia, and they weigh more than a few countly ancestors.
"Soup has got, fish has got, loast tulkey has got, plan-puddy all bulning has got. All same English countly. Dlink, to-night, plenty can have, and no has to pay. Shelly can have, Boldeau can have, polt, bea, champagne, blandy, all can have, all flee!"
Besides, she added thoughtfully, reverting to his unlucky remark, 'haven't you a wife in China? "'I have two wifee in old countly, replied Ah Moy proudly, 'but I have none in 'Mellica not a single wifee no, not one! Ah Moy want 'Mellican wifee, so ba-ad, so ba-ad! he said plaintively. "Miss Cragiemuir was seized with a wild desire to shriek with laughter, but she wisely suppressed it.
Cochenille, sweetly smiling, with downcast eyes, stated that their Countly Excellencies were quite convinced that the most honoured Herr Baron had been attacked, during the 'seize, by a malady which bore a Latin name something like Raptus, and that he, Monsieur Cochenille, was come to make inquiries as to his present state of welfare. "Raptus! Raptus! Nothing of the kind."
Ching wear silk evely day in Queen Victolia countly. You no tink captain take Ching?" "I'm sure he would not," I said. "Ching velly good interpleter; velly useful man." "Very; you've been a splendid fellow, Ching!" He smiled, and a fresh idea struck him. "You tink Queen Victolia like Ching teach lit' plince and plincess talk Chinese?" Again I was obliged to damp his aspirations, and he sighed.
"It lookee like countly of mias lombi. Cappen Ledwad, if dat wild debbel lib in dem wood below, bettel we go all lound. We tly closs it, may be we get eat up. Singapo tiga not so dang'lous as mias he not common kind, but gleat mias lombi what Poltugee people callee `led golilla." "The red gorilla!" ejaculated Captain Redwood. "Is it the ourang-outang you mean?" "Same ting, Sahib cappen.
Word Of The Day