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His expression was so generous, so pleasant, that Tom could not help saying, "I like France, too." "Listen, I will tell you," said Frenchy, laughing. "It is ze old saying, 'Ever' man hass two countries; hees own and France! You see?" In the warmth of Frenchy's generous admiration Tom opened up and said more than he had meant to say more than he ever had said to anyone.
If Ian or his father had got as near as that, it would not have been an ear that would have been missing." "Perhaps his head," suggested Carmichael. "He would not have been putting his nose into honest people's business again, at any rate," and Janet nodded her head as one who could see a downright blow that left no regrets; "it hass always made me ashamed to read about that ear.
"And what about a kirk, Donald? Aren't you Free like Janet?" "Oh, yes, I am Free; but it iss not to that kirk I will be going most here, and I am telling Janet that she will be caring more about a man that hass a pleasant way with him than about the truth." "What's wrong with things, Donald, since we lay in Edinburgh twenty years ago, and you used to give me bits of the Free Kirk sermons?"
Many years ziss veenyard is owned by my people my anceestors. Even ze village is name for my family Lateur. You know ze Franco-Prussian War when Zhermany take Alsace-Lorraine yess?" "Yes," said Tom. "My pappa fight for France. Hees arm he lose. When it is over and Alsace is lost, he haf' lost more than hees arm. Hees spirit! Where can he go? Away from ze veenyard? Here he hass lived always."
"It iss not so alvay," he said. "She hass made it all so good, and now she dinks of Brita, dat vill not see it, and she say still, 'God iss hard to take her avay." "How is it, Jan? Did work come all at once?" "No, and yet yes. Shall I say it all, my lady?" "Surely, Jan, if you have time."
"Vell, you see," continued the boy, "ven I'd made myself so disagreeable that the old gen'l'man would 'ave nothin' to do with me, I came straight away, an' 'ere I am; but it was a trial, let me tell you, specially ven 'e come to mention wages an sitch a 'eavenly smell o' roasted wittles come up from the kitchen too at the moment, but I 'ad only to look at Miss Di, to make me as stubborn as a nox or a hass. `Wot! thinks I to myself, `betray that hangel no, never! yet if I was to go into that 'ouse I know I'd do it, for daddy's got sitch a wheedlin' way with 'im w'en 'e likes, that I couldn't 'old hout long so I giv' old Swallowed-the-poker sitch a lot o' cheek that I thought 'e'd kick me right through the winder.
But although he had seen Ted Flaggan frequently under the aspect of a British seaman, he had never before seen him in the character of a half-boiled Moor. Besides, having been thoroughly engrossed and lost in the enjoyment of his own bath, he had paid no attention to those around him. "Turn yoos face well to de wall," whispered Rais Ali. "He great hass; hims no see yoo."
"Never a fear," quoth Rowley. "W'y, Mr. Anne, sir, if he 'ad, you wouldn't have seen me any more! I ain't a hass, sir!" "Well, my boy, you can put that receipt in your pocket. You'll have no more use for it till you're quite clear of me. Don't lose it, though; it's your share of the Christmas-box: fifteen hundred pounds all for yourself." "Begging your pardon, Mr.
Wass he not here shoost now?" "Here? What fur?" The landlord was by this time beginning to feel a little disgusted at the man's boorish incivility. "Will you pe so coot as to tell me," he asked, "if Mister Safareen hass peen here?" "Not as I know of. Hain't seen him." Lapierre was astounded.
Then he ordered a huge repast, of which they ate bountifully, and upon which he made heavy inroads himself. When the demands of hospitality were somewhat satisfied, he put aside knife and fork, and said to Mr. Hardy: "And now, old friend, it iss no impertinence on my part to ask what hass brought you to Albany."