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"Captain Kenealy, I am not one of your garrison ladies; I am a young person who has been educated; your extra civility will never be known to a soul: and you shall not join the army but as a volunteer." "Then, dem me, Miss Fountain, if I wouldn't be cut in pieces to oblaige you. Just you tray me, and you'll faind, if I am not very braight, I am a man of honah.
So Ay sez to mayself, 'John, Ay sez, 'you are a d d fool. You're killing your mother with your foolish swears. Pull up short, sez Ay, 'and tray and faind some other word that'll do. So Ay fixed upon 'tarnished, and Ay'm dashed if may mother wasn't perfectly satisfayed. It's a grand word! Puts you in mind of tar and 'tarnal and tarpauling, and lots of shippy things.
we requested the Chief to Send a horseman after our old guide to come back and recive his pay &c. which he advised us not to do as his nation would take his things from him before he passed their camps The Indians and our party were very mery this after noon a woman faind madness &c. &c.
Dese ere not schouts, as you faind, but jonkers on a vrolyk; and if dey'd chanshed to keel de vrow Sheppard's pet lamb, dey'd have done her a servish, by shaving it from dat unpleasant complaint, de hempen fever, with which its laatter days are threatened, and of which its poor vader died. Myn Got! haanging runs in some families, Muntmeester.
Misthress Sharp says she's almost beautifuller nor my ledy was when she was yoong; an' I think ye'll noot faind man i' the counthry as'll coom up to that. 'Yes, Miss Assher is very handsome, said Caterina, rather faintly, feeling the sense of her own insignificance returning at this picture of the impression Miss Assher made on others.
She spoke to Haggarty in broad Irish: she addressed me in that most odious of all languages Irish-English, endeavouring to the utmost to disguise her brogue, and to speak with the true dawdling distingue English air. "Are you long in I-a-land?" said the poor creature in this accent. "You must faind it a sad ba'ba'ous place, Mr Fitz-Boodle, I'm shu-ah!
Verdict: as translated by the ferocious interpreter: "Ze Court faind you Geeltee. You are condemned to Dess, and you will be shot on Monday." In the prison of Saint-Gilles as I believe elsewhere in Belgium though there might be a military governor in control who was a German, the general direction remained in the hands of the Belgian staff which was there when the German occupation began.
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