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Updated: May 8, 2025
Agricola swore a heathen oath, set his knees apart and grasped his staff by the middle. "Sir, we will liberate him if we have to overturn the government!" Frowenfeld shook his head. "You have got to overturn something stronger than government." "And pray what " "A conventionality," said Frowenfeld, holding the old man's eye. "Ha, ha! my b-hoy, h-you are right. But we will overturn eh?"
"H-you young kitten!" said the old man in a growling voice, and with the teased, half laugh of aged vanity as he bent a baffled scrutiny at the back-turned face of an ideal Indian Queen. It was not merely the tutoiement that struck him as saucy, but the further familiarity of using the slave dialect. His French was unprovincial.
Three or four persons lingered carelessly near by with ears wide open. Frowenfeld felt that he must bring this to an end, and, like any young person who has learned neither deceit nor disrespect to seniors, he attempted to reason it down. "You do not think many of our public men are dishonest!" "Sir!" replied the rhetorician, with a patronizing smile, "h-you must be thinking of France!"
If you dilly-dally till those accursed Callenders get back, asking, for instance, for their ha, ha! their totally evaporated chest of plate gr-r-r! Take him! He has just shown me his uncle's will as he calls it: a staring forgery, but you, h-you won't mind that, and the 'ladies' man' ah, the 'ladies' man, once you are his cousin, he'll never let on.
What? and h-walked out into the stre-heet with them, arm in arm! It implies in his case an act two separate and distinct acts so base that that I simply do not understand them! H-you know, Professor Frowenfeld, what he has done!
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