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The "Thisbe" was by far the most advanced of the two, still the bravest on board would rather have avoided than sought a fight just then. On came the stranger. "Well, Morton, just say what you think of her?" said Dicky Glover, handing a telescope to Ronald; "there's a mighty Frenchified look about those topsails."
"It would be a very ticklish business to launch a boat in this sea." "We must get near enough, if possible, to effect the exchange without the aid of a boat," returned I. "With care on both sides I think it might be safely managed. What does the stranger look like by this time?" I continued to the lookout. "Seems to me that he has a very Frenchified look about him, sir," replied he. "Phew!
On this sultry day of late July the garbage-tainted air of the old market offended him, and Soho seemed more than ever the disenchanted home of rapscallionism. Alone, the Restaurant Bretagne, neat, daintily painted, with its blue tubs and the dwarf trees therein, retained an aloof and Frenchified self-respect.
"I am different to you!" she continued, with Frenchified grammar; "I like things as new as ever I can have them!" "I like new things well enough, Chrissy you know I do! It is natural. The earth herself has new clothes once a year. It is but once a year, I grant!" "Often enough for an old granny like her!" "Look what a pretty cottage! down there, half-way to the burn! It's like an English cottage!
"Chick or child," says he, "she's all I have a wee Frenchified, Laird, but she'll learn the wie o' the Scots yet." And as Margaret entered, a little startled, and us at her heels, "Come ben, my dear," he cries, "I've a new friend for ye," and beside the mistress I saw Helen Stockdale.
"Frenchified Arabs" like Si Maïeddine, he said, were passionately fond of dancing with European women, and very likely Maïeddine was anxious to secure a waltz with some Frenchwomen of his acquaintance.
Our men filled the little passage, and suddenly we found ourselves in a low-ceiled room in front of a great four-poster bed. And in it, upright, blinking at the light, were two odd Frenchified figures in tasselled nightcaps. Astonishment and anger and fear struggled in the faces of Monsieur de Rocheblave and his lady.
"What dew they call that air tune box?" inquired Israel Goodrich. "I've hearn tell but I kinder fergit. It's some Frenchified soundin name." "It's a pianner," said Obadiah. "I guess peeanner's nigher right," observed Peleg critically. "My gal hearn the Edwards gal call it peeanner." "They ain't nuther of ye in a mile o' right.
The shopman, a sprightly little Frenchified figure with rounded belly and white waistcoat, displayed the revolvers, and smiling respectfully and scraping with his little feet observed: ". . . I would advise you, M'sieur, to take this superb revolver, the Smith and Wesson pattern, the last word in the science of firearms: triple-action, with ejector, kills at six hundred paces, central sight.
"I met a man who knew you this morning." The other's eyes leapt. "Chap with a beak on a chestnut! handsome young scoundrel! Frenchified, theatrical, bit o red riband stuck on his stomach." "That's the man, sir." "Well, what of him? Quick!" Kit repeated the tale of Egypt, as the Gentleman had told it. The other listened with rapt interest. "It's all true," he said, "true as the Bible."
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