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Updated: April 30, 2025
"Dear cousin in motley," grinned the beldame, "'twas for hatred of Tom Allonby and all his accursed race that I have kept the secret thus long. Now comes a braver revenge: and I settle my score with the black spawn of Allonby euh, how entirely! by setting you at their head." "Nay, I elect for a more flattering reason. I begin to suspect you, cousin, of some human compunction."
"Yes, sir, because you are the mouthpiece of those who cannot speak for themselves." "Euh! Euh! That may be true in a sense. But you mistake; my authority is most limited. I have but two votes in Council. I am as wholly convinced as you can be that some will suffer for the general good. The individual is crushed by the crowd in these days.
Christophe said without stopping, half turning his head: "Euh! It is not very good. Your piano!" The old man was very contrite. He begged pardon: "It is old," he said humbly. "It is like myself." Christophe turned round and looked at the old man, who seemed to be asking pardon for his age, took both his hands, and laughed.
He dropped little by little from the peculiar pinching of the broader vowels the indefinable "euh," that runs through the speech of the pundit caste and the elaborate choice of words, to freely- mouthed "ows" and "ois," and, for him at least, unfettered colloquialisms. He could not altogether understand the boys, who hung upon his words so reverently.
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