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"Ah! we not have need him," interrupted Gibault, wiping the perspiration from his forehead, "de Wild Man of de West hims come, an' oh! you should see what hims have bin do!" "The Wild Man again!" exclaimed March in dismay "an' me absent!" Gibault nodded and laughed. At that moment an exclamation from Redhand attracted the attention of the whole party.
Mine was hastily completed amongst them: each had a pin to draw from her bosom, in order to put something to rights about my throat or hands; and a chorus of "God bless hims!" was arising, when, from below, young Mephistopheles murmured an impatient groan, and perhaps the horses snorted.
"We can jump in the river and drowns mit, ourselves; won't dey be fooled!" "Perhaps they would be disappointed; but I don't see where we are likely to gain anything." "I doesn't see hims mineself," grinned Otto, whose whims led him to be amusing during the most trying moments, as well as grave when others were light-hearted.
At last they became sufficiently confidential to inform the stranger of their object in going to the Sawback Hills. "Ha! Vat is dat you say?" he exclaimed, with well-feigned surprise; "von yoong man carried avay by Ridskins. I saw'd dem! Did pass dem not longe ago. T'ree mans carry von man. I t'ink him a sick comrade, but now I reklect hims face vas vhitish."
"Boo!" said English Chief; regarding his countryman with a look of contempt; "hims no onerstan' Eengleesh." "He understands how to eat a rumpsteak of venison, however," said Mackenzie, with a laugh, as Coppernose at that moment coolly appropriated a mass of half-roasted meat, and began to devour it. "You'd better follow his example, lads." The men were not slow to take this advice.
Wery near declare war with England acause of that," said Ali, with an air of importance. "But the Breetish consul he interfere, goes down on hims knees, an' beg the Dey for to parding hims nation." "He must ha' bin a cowardly feller, that consul!" "No," said the interpreter sternly, "him's not coward.
"To be sure, to be sure," Dougal replied, with accents of profound submission; "her pleasure suld be done tat's but reason; but an it were tat is, an it could be thought the same to her to coup the ill-faured loon of ta red-coat Captain, and hims corporal Cramp, and twa three o' the red-coats, into the loch, herself wad do't wi' muckle mair great satisfaction than to hurt ta honest civil shentlemans as were friends to the Gregarach, and came up on the Chiefs assurance, and not to do no treason, as herself could testify."
She did it, didn't she?" "Yes, because he was one of those beastly 'hims, to be toadied and cajoled and fussed into a good humour before his wife dare ask for a carriage for the baby that belongs to both of them." "Oh, I see! I see! I say, I'm stupid, aren't I?" "I'll forgive you your stupidity if you promise me never to marry and make any woman miserable." Rokeby became slightly nettled.
What's hims little things all dancing in the fog, An-ina?" he enquired, his mind suddenly distracted, pointing at a gap between two low hills, where a thin vapour of fog was slowly rising. "Is them's debble-mens?" The keen eyes of the squaw followed the pointing finger. In a moment there leapt into them a light which required no words to interpret.
"Have 'ee heard that the Dey Omar has cut off the head of Sidi Hassan for nothin' worse than a touch of imperliteness?" "No, I not heers dat," answered Ali, with a look of interest. "I's werry glad." "Glad! why so?" "'Cos Sidi Hassan hims gib me reason to 'xpec' hims cut off my hid soonerer or laterer."
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