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But the man was there in the flesh, grinning at them in a malicious, triumphant manner. Greg Carker smothered an exclamation of amazement. "Evidently you were mistaken in thinking the man drowned," said Frank quietly. "We've had all this trouble for nothing." "Oh, eet ees not so easee to keel Jose Murillo!" sneered the rascal. "Where he fall in the lake the water ees not so deep.
'Tis the Day of Judgment and you've gotten inside information!" jeered the Dago Duke. Dubois showed his yellowed teeth. "Mais oui, 'eet is ze Resurrection." "I swear, you look like Napoleon, Dubois!" gibed the Dago Duke, when he was fully arrayed. "Why not?" The Frenchman's face wore a complacent smirk. "Ze Little Corporal, he married a queen."
He waved his hands comprehensively. "I am pleased," he added, with true French courtesy, "to haf another pupil. Ees eet that you like the French, Mademoiselle Dean?" "It is a beautiful language, Professor Fontaine," Marjorie assured him. "I have only begun learning it, but I like it so much." "C'est vrai," murmured the delighted professor. "La Francais est une belle langue.
A second more and he drew something to his side and stared at it. "Oh, ho!" came at last. "M'sieu Houston, he will, what-you-say, fix the can on the sawyer." "Why?" "First," said Ba'tiste quietly, "he waste a six-inch board on each slab-side he take off. Un'stand? The first cut when the bark, eet is sliced off. He take too much. Eet is so easy. And then look."
"Nevvier, nevvier after I knew you loved me, Ephraim," she declared. "One time I theenk you do not care. Then I geet so very angry. Then I make eyes at ze handsome Señor Merriwell. I do eet to see how you like that. Eet make you geet to your job on. Eet make you set your tongue loose and say the word I want you to say. Señor Merriwell he not care one snap for me. I know eet.
"Ah, you have the sentiment, and YOU," she continued, taking Joan by the arms, "YOU have not. Eet ess good so. When a the wife," she continued boldly, hazarding an extended English abstraction, "he has the sentimente and the hoosband he has nothing, eet is not good for a-him ze wife," she concluded triumphantly.
Ma'm Maynard's words arose with a new significance, "I tell you, Miss Mary, it has halways been so, and it halways will. Everything that lives has its own natural enemy and a woman's natural enemy: eet is man!" But Mary could still smile at that. "Take Mr. MacPherson," she thought; "how is he my natural enemy? Or Judge Cutler? Or Archey Forbes? Or Wally Cabot?"
Mandeville indiscriminately distributed itself on piers, large and small, bath-house tops, trees, and craft of all kinds, from pirogue, dory, and pine-raft to pretentious cat-boat and shell-schooner. Mandeville cheered and strained its eyes after all the boats, but chiefly was its attention directed to "La Juanita." "Ah, voila, eet is ahead!" "Mais non, c'est un autre!" "La Juanita! La Juanita!"
But against this fear was the booming enthusiasm of Ba'tiste Renaud: "Nev' min'. Somehow we do eet. Ah, oui! Somehow. If we make the failure, then it shall be Ba'teese who will fin' the way to pay the bond. Now, Ba'teese, he go back." "Yes, and keep watch on that woman. She's out here for something' I feel sure of it something that has to do with Thayer.
What harm, señor? But maybe it's so because you no like me?" Startled by so unjust a suspicion, the eyes of the young giant instantly revealed a degree of interest which caused her own to light up suddenly, her red lips parting in a quick, appreciative smile which disclosed the white teeth. "Ah, I see it vas not dat. Eet make glad de heart make eet to sing like de birds.
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