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She finally addressed herself to Nevil. "I'm ever so sorry, Nevil," she said with a dejected sigh. "Of course, of course, it's all right, child," he answered hastily, "come and hear my short-comings. I'm in deep disgrace." She sat down obediently and the dachshund immediately shifted its quarters and wedged itself in between her feet.
Brian was with the O'Farrells, coming on behind, and of course the Red Cross taxi followed at our heels like a faithful dachshund. Our big car flew swiftly, and the little one did its jolting best to keep up the pace, for time wouldn't wait for us and these autumn days are cutting themselves short.
There it suddenly altered its tactics, and instead of keeping at my heels, became my conductor, forging slowly ahead with a gliding motion that both puzzled and fascinated me. I furthermore observed that notwithstanding the temperature it was not a whit less than ninety degrees in the shade the legs and stomach of the dachshund were covered with mud and dripping with water.
Of me the Courtiers took no notice whatever: but Sylvie and Bruno were the subject of many inquisitive looks, and many whispered remarks, of which I only distinctly caught one made by a sly-looking Dachshund to his friend "Bah wooh wahyah hoobah Oobooh, hah bah?"
Bernard and from the wolfhound to the half-breed dachshund, which is half German and half Bolshevik and looks the part. "The wind whistles across the Dvina River like the Twentieth Century Limited passing Podunk, and snowflakes are as numerous as retreating Germans were in France a few weeks ago. We have good quarters when we are here, thank fortune for that, and good food, when it comes up.
"They thought our marines would run too," laughed Frank, "but do you see what they're calling them now? Teufelhunden. They're devil-hounds, all right, and the dachshund yelps when he sees them coming." "What do you think the Germans will aim for when they do begin their drive?" queried Bart. "The Allied commanders would give a good deal to know that," smiled Dick.
'No, you would be ill advised, said Robert, looking with a bitter little smile at the sleek dachshund that sat blinking beside its mistress. 'But what is the agent about? Then Robert told her the story, not mincing his words.
Bridger stopped and disinterred for her a quarter from his holiday waistcoat. On the next corner a quarter of a ton of well-clothed man with a rice-powdered, fat, white jowl, stood holding the chain of a devil-born bulldog whose forelegs were strangers by the length of a dachshund.
In the morning he called Whitebrow, smacked him hard about the ears, and then showing him a stick, kept repeating to him: "Go in at the door! Go in at the door! Go in at the door!" Misbehaviour A YOUNG dog, a reddish mongrel, between a dachshund and a "yard-dog," very like a fox in face, was running up and down the pavement looking uneasily from side to side.
On Sunday mornings we have Pfannkuchen with currant jelly, and the Herr Professors come down to breakfast in fearful flappy German slippers. I'm the only creature in the place that isn't just over from Germany. Even the dog is a dachshund.
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