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'Oh, you did, did you? and here you've bin talking alone with him this morning for the last hour. What d'y mean by disgracing me? 'Disgracing you! scoffed Bell. 'Your character needs a lot of disgracing, doesn't it? Now, be sensible, father, she added, advancing towards him, 'and I'll tell you the truth. I didn't intend to, but as you are so unreasonable I may as well set your mind at rest.

A few mornings later I was up at the Admiralty House when he came into the waiting-room, let himself carefully down into a mahogany chair, dropped his new soft gray hat into his lap, and looked around. "A solemn place, ain't it? Would they 'ang a chap, d'y' think, if he was to 'ave a bit of a smoke for 'imself while waitin'?"

"Ho! ho! who stole the donkey?" cried a shrill voice at the door, and from behind the hawker was poked a touzelled curly head, and a grinning face which sadly needed washing. "You leave this cove alone, won't y? He's a pal o' mine. D'y see?" "You git along with your pal then," cried Bart, indignantly. "If he don't understand King's English, you do, Tray."

"Jack," said one of the others, "did Paddy, d'y remimber, happen to have an odd twenty pound in his breeches pocket? becase av so, he might jist put it down genteel, and walk out afore thim all." "Well, then, Corney," answered Jack, with Pat Brady's pipe in his mouth, "av Paddy had sich a thrifle about then, I disremember it entirely; but shure, why wouldn't he?

No, hi 'appened to be ashore that d'y, sir. A mistike, sir, you see. But such a turn of wit as you 'ave, sir!" The head clerk suddenly shed his smile. "Never mind about my wit. What then? You deserted?" "Not hexactly, sir. I was hofficially dead, sir. Ought to 'ave been at the bottom, sir. O yes, sir.

I mustn't be touched." "Then I'll sit over here," said she. "Yes, there. No, get out. Leave me alone, d'y' hear?" His voice pitched up high and imperative, but as suddenly dropped again. "I beg your pardon. I'm not much of a man to talk to a woman jus' now." "I think you're a very fine man, Tony." "Ha! Yes. A devil of a fellow!" "But so stubborn," she whispered. "There you go," he cried.

"It's a bloomin' lot o' difference," said the sailor, "whether you're civilian or not, I can jolly well tell you! It's a short course in Wittenberg there and Slopsgotten, or wotever they calls it. And the Spanish Ambassador, 'e calls to inquire arfter yer 'ealth every d'y. Hi there, Fritzie, 'ave we long to wite, old pal?"

We hadn't time to see the many interesting things in the churches and in the town, as it was getting late and we wanted some tea before we started back. We found our way to the pâtissier's quite easily, but certainly couldn't have had any tea if d'Y had not told us to use his name and ask for the club-room.

The only way of keeping up the big places is by making a rich marriage the daughter of a rich banker or industrial, or an American. Our cousins, Comte and Comtesse d'Y , have a pretty little old place not very far from Villers-sur-Mer, where we went sometimes for sea-bathing.

La ville possède un caravanserai nous allâmes loger. Déja il y avoit des Turcs, et nous fûmes obligés d'y mettre tous nos chevaux pêle-mêle, selon l'usage; mais le lendemain matin, au moment j'apprêtois le mien pour partir, je m'aperçus qu'on m'avoit pris l'une des courroies qui me servoit