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To Signor A then, the Italian Chargé d'Affaires and Manager of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company, Monsieur Haas went and, pledging him to secrecy, sought his assistance as interpreter. As Monsieur Haas had done, so did his Majesty the King. Two great minds were being guided by the same spirit. Theebaw could not read French, and he distrusted Monsieur Haas.
"And just think, Shila's mama, Mark Haas is going to get us letters and passports and " "My son my boy his father before him " "Mama mama, please don't let a spell come on! It's all right. Shila's going to fix it. Any day now, maybe " "You'm a good girl. You'm a good girl, Shila." Tears were coursing down to a mouth that was constantly wry with the taste of them. "And you're a good mother, mama.
Work awhile, dearie, and then we'll get Selene and Lester, and, after all the nice company goes away, we'll go home in the auto." "I begged he should keep in his hate his feet in the " "I know! The papers. That's what little mamma wants. Mr. Haas, that's what she likes better than anything the evening papers." "I'll go down and send 'em right up with a boy, and telephone for the car.
You we can't expect Mark Haas and all the relations the Sinsheimers and all to come out here. I'd rather not have any." "But, Selene, everybody knows we ain't millionaires, and that you got in with that crowd through being friends at school with Amy Rosen.
"If they fit me," I said, "what is the use of buying?" About four in the afternoon the village of Lauterbach appeared at the end of the valley, and very proud I felt as I surveyed the tall and handsome house of the late Christian Hâas, my future abode, the centre of my property, real and speculative.
"They are shouting 'Fire!" exclaimed Arthur Meyer. "That's all the same to me," I said, shrugging my shoulders. "It is not midnight yet, and I am expecting my own misfortune." Charles Haas had opened the drawing-room window to see where the shouts were coming from. He stepped out on to the balcony, and then came quickly in again. "The fire is here!" he exclaimed. "Look!"
"Why, just to show you how a woman don't know many real friends she has got, why even Mark Haas, of the Mound City Silk Company, a firm I don't do two hundred dollars' worth of business with a year, I wish you could have heard him the other night at the Y. M. H. A., a man you know for yourself just comes here to be sociable with the trade." "Fine fellow, Mark Haas!" "'When the time comes, Mrs.
Haas's brow, had not so much as whitened, or the slight paunchiness enhanced even the moving-over of a button. When Mr. Haas smiled, his mustache, which ended in a slight but not waxed flourish, lifted to reveal a white-and-gold smile of the artistry of careful dentistry, and when, upon occasion, he threw back his head to laugh, the roof of his mouth was his own.
"And a man like Haas don't talk that way if he don't mean it." "Mind you, not a hundred dollars a year business with him. I haven't got the demands for silks." "That wash silk I'm telling you about though, Mrs. C., does up like a " "There's ma thumping with the poker on the upstairs floor. When it's closing-time, she begins to get restless. I I wish Selene would come in.
Do., p. 872. Doddridge, 235. See Mag. of Am. Hist., XV., 256. De Haas, p. 161. He is a very fair and trustworthy writer; in particular, as regards Logan's speech and Cresap's conduct. It is to be regretted that Brantz Mayer, in dealing with these latter subjects, could not have approached them with the same desire to be absolutely impartial, instead of appearing to act solely as an advocate.
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