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It was when we got up to go that Vernabelle told me things about Cousin Egbert. She said he must have great reserve strength in his personality. She said he fairly frightened her, he was so superbly elemental. "It is not so much Mr. Floud that frightens me," says she, "as the inevitability of him just beautifully that! And such sang fraw!"
Alack-a-day! wha can ken, if it please your lordship, whether sic prayers as the Southron read out of their auld blethering black mess- book there, may not be as powerful to invite fiends, as a right red- het prayer warm fraw the heart, may be powerful to drive them away, even as the Evil Spirit was driven by he smell of the fish's liver from the bridal-chamber of Sara, the daughter of Raguel?
His comments ran on: "Bon soir, Monsieur," to the host: "Ein boesewicht, ganz sicher" "a scoundrel without doubt;" and then added, still lower, "Rob you here as soon as look at you." "Ah, postillion! comment va?" "much more like a brigand after all I know which I'd take you for." "Ver fluchte fraw" "how ugly the woman is."
Poor Egbert was where he had to overhear this, and I had never seen him less sang fraw if that's the word. He looked more like a case of nettle rash, especially when Vernabelle gripped his hand at parting and called him comrade! We finally groped our way through the smoke of the door and said what a lovely time we'd had, and Metta said we must make a practice of dropping in at this hour.
For all that I had become a Grave Merchant, there was yet somewhat of the Gentleman of the Sword and Adventurer on the High Seas about me; and a great hulking Cousin of the young Fraw, that was a Lieutenant in their High Mightinesses Land Forces, the Amphibious Grenadiers I call 'em, and more used to Salt-water than Salt-petre, must needs challenge me to the Duello.
His comments ran on: "Bon soir, Monsieur," to the host: "Ein boesewicht, ganz sicher" "a scoundrel without doubt;" and then added, still lower, "Rob you here as soon as look at you." "Ah, postillion! comment va?" "much more like a brigand after all I know which I'd take you for." "Ver fluchte fraw" "how ugly the woman is."
If it hadn't been for the obscurity of her eyes behind her glasses it would have seemed that he was penetrating her eyes with intimate familiarity. "Mrs. Sangfroid?" "Yes, something like that," she said. "That's not right?" "Miss, if you don't mind; and even though I am a disciple of Freud, as much as I can be a disciple of anything, the pronounciation is "fraw" and not "Freud." "Sorry."
We pulled ashore with two bales of silk by way of salvage, and sample of what warn't in her hold when she settled down. We landed; and the Frenchmen were dancing about with excitement. 'Captain, says one, 'you have much sang fraw. 'Insured, munseer, says I. 'Bone, says he. "Then there was the Antelope, lost in charge of a pilot off the Hooghly. I knew the water as well as he did.
But we'll no beat them by quarrelling amang oorselves, any more than we'd ever have beaten the Hun if France and Britain had stopped the war, every sae often, to hae oot an argument o' their own. We had differences with our gude friends the French, fraw time to time. Sae did the Americans, and whiles we British and our American cousins got upon ane anither's nerves.
Why did not I avail myself of the many Propitious Moments that offered, and demand the Hand of that most respectable Dutch Dame. The Melancholy Truth is, that she chose to be jealous of Betje, Mr. Vandepeereboom's comely Housekeeper, upon whom I declare that I had never cast any thing but innocently Paternal Glances, and utterly deny that I ever foregathered with that young Fraw.
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