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The arms of Slabberts soared as the tongue of Slabberts wagged in explanation. "This is assault and battery, Meister, upon a peaceful burgher. You shall answer to your officer for it, I tell you slap. Voor den donder! Is not a young man to light his pipe as he talks to a young woman without being called spy by a verdoemte sentry! Tell him, Jannje, that is all I did do!"
Mariners who paid this courtesy to the Heer of the Donder Berg were never molested by his imps, though skipper Ouselsticker, of Fishkill, for all he had a parson on board, was once beset by a heavy squall, and the goblin came out of the mist and sat astraddle of his bowsprit, seeming to guide his schooner straight toward the rocks.
His head clerk awaited, as usual, for any orders which might arise from their contents; and was not a little surprised to observe the brow of his wealthy employer suddenly clouded; again and again he perused the letter he held, at last audibly giving vent to his feelings "Donder and blitzen!" he burst forth, "but this is a shock, who would have thought it?
Mariners who paid this courtesy to the Heer of the Donder Berg were never molested by his imps, though skipper Ouselsticker, of Fishkill, for all he had a parson on board, was once beset by a heavy squall, and the goblin came out of the mist and sat astraddle of his bowsprit, seeming to guide his schooner straight toward the rocks.
Human fingers couldn't control all the keys and stops! 'I know it, said Handel coolly, 'and for that reason, I was forced to strike some notes with the end of my nose. Donder! just think how the old organist must have stared!" "Hey! What?" exclaimed Jacob, startled when Peter's animated voice suddenly became silent. "Haven't you heard me, you rascal?" was the indignant rejoinder. "Oh, yes no.
He was already upon the canal with Carl and Jacob. Were they thinking about sisters or kisses? Not a bit of it. They were so happy to be on skates once more, so impatient to dart at once into the very heart of Broek, that they spun and wheeled about like crazy fellows, relieving themselves, meantime, by muttering something about "Peter and donder" not worth translating.
He mopped his brimming eyes with a handful of cotton waste, not innocent of lubricating fluid. "Tower av Ivory! 'twas grand to see the contimpt av thim when the cowards widin did not reply. 'Donder! says the gaffer in the tay-thray hat and the beard like the grandfather av all the billygoats. 'Is this, he says, 'the British pluck they talk about?
Just at this moment the chrysalis upon the bed stirred and sat erect. "What's the matter?" he asked, without opening his eyes. "Matter!" echoed Ludwig, half trembling, half laughing. "Get up, Jacob. Here's work for you. Come sit on this fellow's back while we get into our clothes, we're half perished." "What fellow? Donder!"
In the process of time, he acquired something of the Dutch language, that is to say, he learnt all its vocabulary of oaths and maledictions, with just words sufficient to string them together. "Donder en blicksen!" For years he kept about the Wild Goose, more like one of those familiar spirits, or household goblins, that we read of, than like a human being.
"On hearing this, Gretchen, the landlady, the apothecary, the hostler, and the stable-boy not the cobbler, you may be sure burst forth with cries of: 'Hip! Hip! Hock! Donder und Blitzen! or whatever they do yell when they are mad with joy. "Then the landlady broke out in a fresh place: 'No public-house for you! This is my treat! All of you come inside.
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