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Then the man gave some gruff order, and Ching replied again. The light died out, and there was silence once more. "What did he say?" whispered Mr Brooke. "Say what fo' sail about all in dark?" "Yes, and you?" "Tell him hollid big gleat lie! Say, go catchee fish when it glow light." "Yes." "And pilate say be off, or he come in boat and cuttee off my head."
The Reverend Melancthon Browning had just collected two dollars from Chung for the foreign missionary fund. Usually the cook was a cheerful giver, but this morning he was grumbling a little. He had been a loser at hop toy the night before. "Mister Blowning he keep busy asking for dollars. He tell me givee to the Lord. Gleat smoke, Lord allee timee bloke?" The girl laughed.
'I could cly before you, as I cly often and often ... in seclet ... for my childlen.... 'You cry in secret? This is news 'Yes, yes, I cly. Is not the burden of the world heavy upon me, too? and the work I have to do vely, vely gleat?
"Why not make lit' fire and bu'n junk, killee allee same?" "He has me there, Herrick," said Mr Brooke. "Takee plisoner to mandalin. Mandalin man put on heavy chain, kick flow in boat, put in plison, no give to eat, and then choppee off allee head. Makee hurt gleat deal mo'. Velly solly for plisoner. Bette' make big fi' and bu'n allee now." Mr Brooke smiled and looked at me, and I laughed.
"Blister's liable to be shot at daybreak. He's lessie-majesting the U.S. Army." Chung Lung shuffled to the door and peered through. Internal mirth struggled with his habitual gravity. "Gleat smoke, Blister spill cup cloffee on general." This fortunately turned out to be an exaggeration.
"His most noble excellency the big-buttoned mandalin has come on board the gleat fine ship with his genelals, and blavest of the blave, to fetch the most wicked and double-bad plisoners whom the gleat sea captain of the foleign devils " "Eh! what?" said Captain Thwaites. "Did he say that?" "Yes. Come fetch allee bad bad plisoners velly much all together."
Early in the afternoon they drove to Greyshot, stopping first of all at the toy shop. Raeburn, who was in excellent spirits, fully entered into the difficulties of Dolly's choice. At length a huge toy cat was produced. "Oh, I should like that one!" said Dolly, clapping her hands. "What a 'normous, gleat big cat it is!"
There was a quick movement, and a partly bald head appeared from beneath two loose sleeves, which had been folded over it like the wings of a flying fox, and Ching's familiar squeaky voice said "You wantee me. Go shore?" "No, no; not to-night," cried Smith. "We shall set you ashore when we come back." "You go velly far allee way Gleat Blitain?"
"Gleat big-button mandalin say he velly much 'blige captain big fine ship, and he allee light, no hurtee 'tall by killee badee bad men." "Bah!" ejaculated the captain, turning angrily away; and I saw Mr Reardon's face grow fixed, as if carved in wood, in his efforts to keep from smiling.
As the Coroner stopped reading, amid gasps of excitement, the Chinaman who had brought the notewith brown skin polished like a kettle, expressionless, save for the twinkling mystery of the brown eyesmade three motions of obeisance up and down with his hands clasped in the great sleeves, and then said: "He not come you; you come him. He gleat man. He speak all come. I show where."
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