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"Ha-ow!" grunted the Sioux, reverting in his excitement to his ancient utterance. There was a lightning sweep of King's paw, a shout from Hansen, a wah of surprise and pain from the bear. King leaped back to the top of the stand to avoid the expected counter-stroke. But not against him did the bear's rage turn. The maddened beast seemed to conclude that his master had betrayed him.
How are all the folks up country?" replied the spruce clerk, with a rude grin. "How are they?" repeated Bobby, the color flying to his cheek. "Yes, ha-ow do they dew?" "They behave themselves better than they do here." "Eh, greeny?" "Eh, sappy?" repeated Bobby, mimicking the soft, silky tones of the young city gentleman. "What do you mean by sappy?" asked the clerk, indignantly.
'Ha-ow pahltry it all is! 'Which? 'Everything. Babies, Diphtheria, Mrs. Bent and The Dancing Master, I whooping in a chair, and The Dowd dropping in from the clouds. I wonder what the motive was all the motives. 'Um! 'What do you think? 'Don't ask me. Go to sleep.
The doors of the two rooms stood open. 'Polly, said a voice from the darkness, 'what did that American-heiress-globe-trotter girl say last season when she was tipped out of her 'rickshaw turning a corner? Some absurd adjective that made the man who picked her up explode. "'Paltry," said Mrs. Mallowe. 'Through her nose like this "Ha-ow pahltry!" 'Exactly, said the voice.
The dinner was interminably long, over-elaborate, and slowly served. They were all sent in with the wrong people. The conversation all but died again and again. Sir Robert was afflicted by a deaf man, who shrieked, "Ha-ow?" and "What say?" at him with brief intervals all during the meal. Mabel shrank into herself, and only ventured on a few trite remarks. Mr.
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