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A young man who cannot riddles antworten, he is not so good by business for ein family to provide is not that hein? And he hands us a riddle a conundrum, some calls it and he chuckles interiorly and gives both of us till to-morrow morning to work out the answer to it. And he says whichever of us guesses the repartee end of it goes to his house o' Wednesday night to his daughter's birthday party.
With a shriek of terror the child threw herself back on the bed, covering her eyes with her hands, burying her face in the pillow. Jeanne-Marie went to the top of the stairs and called "Jacques Monnier!" "Hein?" said the man, coming slowly to the door below, and standing with his broad figure framed in it.
"Now listen, Eugenie; you must give me back your gold. You won't refuse your father, my little girl, hein?" The two women were dumb. "I have no gold myself. I had some, but it is all gone. I'll give you in return six thousand francs in livres, and you are to put them just where I tell you. Now attend to me, little girl.
"Why, Gaston, it bored me to the very verge of yawning in my lover's countenance. I, too, had no idea but that it would bore you equally " "Hein?" said the Duke. " to hear what d'Humieres " "He squints!" cried the Duc de Puysange. " or de Crequy " "That red-haired ape!" he muttered. " or d'Arlanges, or or any of them, was pleased to say.
It is a fine name you have there, Endymion! You should be a person of poetry, with this and your love for shells, hein? You love, without doubt, to gaze on the moon, Sir Scraper? You feel with her a connection, yes?" "What the dickens are you talking about?" asked the old gentleman, testily. "How much do you want to swindle me out of for this Junonia, hey? not that I shall buy it, mind ye!"
"'So we now seek the abode of these English ladies, hein? he said. "'Yes, said I; and we left the restaurant and strode through the village by the way we'd taken the evening before.... "That vigneron's smile became more and more irritating to me.... 'It is then the next village? he said presently, as we left the last house and came out into the open plain. "We went back....
The work was going on. Much of Sutro's time was spent in Virginia City, superintending the work on his tunnel. But he fell into the habit of finding Benito whenever he came to town dragging him from home with awkward but sincere apologies to Alice. "You will lend me your husband, Hein?" he would say. "I like to tell him of my fancies, for he understands ... the others laugh at me."
Yes, you saw some boots lying about in the fender here the other day, and that is the identical pair, and this gentleman was hiding in my dressing-room at the time, waiting for them; and he had passed the night here. That was what you were thinking, hein? Think so; I would rather you did. It is the simple truth. I am deceiving you. And if I am? I do it to please myself." She sat down.
'Aha! said he, 'I am that sort of fool myself. He laughed uneasily, being evidently sorry he had spoken, and continued: "'And you can get all this when you want it, hein? But where is it now? "I smiled slyly. 'It is in a sort of private museum; but where that museum is I am not going to say, or perhaps I may find it empty when I call. "Piragoff looked at me earnestly.
Hein sailed on May 21 for the West Indies, where he learnt that Hendrikszoon was dead and that the remnant of his expedition had returned after a fruitless voyage of misadventure. Hein however was not the man to turn back. He determined to try what he could effect at Bahia by a surprise attack.
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