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It was limp, little, strong, and looked meaty. As he raised his eyes wonderingly from a certain sentence, he encountered the glance of the fat old German dealer. "Will this little book stand reading more than once, sir?" Bedient asked. "Ja but vat a little-boy question! Ven you haf read sefen times the year for sefen years you a man vill haf become."
I got ter keep my eyes open an' keep up wid w'at's happenin'. Ef dere's gwine ter be anudder flood 'roun' here, I wants ter git in de ark wid de w'ite folks, I may haf ter be anudder Ham, an' sta't de cullud race all over ag'in."
But old Hans hadn't any faculty for jokes. Dollars and cents and his big meerschaum made up the two elements of his life. The thought of losing zwei shillings or zwei cents by Dennis, or any one else, caused him anguish, and instead of laughing, his fun-loving assistant was aghast at seeing him fall into a passion. "You be von big fule. Vat for we keep mens here who haf no money?
I do wish Hugh were at home; I am certain he would contrive to get it, and make it a present to me!" "Nein, nein, young lady," put in the pedlar, who, a little unceremoniously, had followed the girls into the room, though he knew, of course, precisely where he was coming; "dat might not be. Dat chain is der broperty of my son, t'ere, und I haf sworn it shalt only be gifen to his wife."
"Oh, for me all you haf done " The outcast turned away, shaking his head sadly. Never did Heywood's fat water-jar glisten more welcome than when he gained the vaulted bath-room. He ripped off his blood-stained clothes, scrubbed the sacrificial clots from his hair, and splashed the cool water luxuriously over his exhausted body.
"I haf yet two off dem handle chranades," spoke up Iggy, meaning, thereby the serrated Mills bombs which were used in the trench raids. "Hold on to them!" advised Jimmy. "We'll need them if the Huns see us, and they're very likely to." They crawled to the end of the mill flume. The fire was now some distance from this wooden water carrier.
Evidently the spirit of the gambler was more deeply rooted in him than it was in Felipe, for, after gazing out in the trail a moment, then eying Felipe another moment, both speculatively, he extracted from his pockets two more silver dollars and tossed them down with the others. Then he fixed Felipe with a malignant stare. "I bet you t'ree dolars thot eet cooms what I haf say!" Felipe laughed.
"And the dinner I haf been keeping for you for an hour an' more." "You're a good angel, Mrs. Carré," said Graeme gratefully. "We are a bit late, aren't we? I hope you've put yesterday's dinner and to-day's together. We've had nothing to eat to speak of for a month. What did you think when we never turned up last night?" "Oh, but I knew you would be all right.
Would there be an opening in the circle an opening by which they could escape? "Ve must go to der right," cried Mr. Switzer. "Und I vill drive, Paul. I haf driven in der German army yet, und I know how." They were now tearing along in a lane bordered with fire on either side, with raging flames behind them. Their only hope lay in front.
I say to myself all zee way from Good Hope dat I weel her marry, an' I haf the price I pay her fader on zee sledge. I see her las' winter; but I not know den how it ees with me; but when I go away my heart cry out for her, an' my mind it ees make up.... An' now she ees dead! I never tink of dat! I tink only of zee happy years dat we weel haf togeder!"
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