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"You must be aware, comrades," said the young soldier, addressing the crowd rather than his interrogator, "that Sidi Hamet now Dey of Algiers has given strict orders that the houses of the Jews are to be respected. I am here to see these orders carried out." "And who art thou? again I demand," said the bully, observing that his comrades showed a tendency to waver, "that dost presume to "
"Does the gentleman," persisted his interrogator, "understand the President to have violated the Democratic creed in offering to compromise on 49°?" Douglas replied that he did understand Mr. Polk in his inaugural address "as standing up erect to the pledge of the Baltimore Convention."
I dare say, had our sailors the least inkling that all this while they were listened to and understood, they would have reserved some of their more choice figures of speech. It was so, however; for suddenly somebody asked, in splendid English, "Do you require anything, gentlemen?" Our interrogator was a Russian military officer, with several ribbons and crosses on his broad breast.
"Did I hear you mention Marian Seaton's name?" she sharply inquired of Jane. "You did." Jane gazed levelly at the angry newcomer. "Which of these two girls is Miss Allen?" This question was rudely addressed to Judith, whose good-natured face showed evident disgust of the interrogator. "I am Jane Allen. Why do you ask?" Jane spoke with curt directness. "I supposed that you were."
Poor Sharkey, whose benefit-night was approaching, thought he might secure a friend for life, by imparting to him an important state secret; and when, therefore, pressed rather closely as to the 'savages' whereabout' resolved to try a bold stroke, and trust his unknown interrogator. 'And so you don't really know where they come from, nor can't guess? 'Maybe, Peru, said Mr. Burke, innocently.
Terrible awkward in the scrub he was, always fallin' down on his knees; and his neck was so short you could sit far back on him and pull his ears." Here that interrogator retired hurt; he gave Billy best. After a pause another took up the running. "How did your mate get on, Billy? I s'pose he was trampled to a mummy!" "No," said Billy, "he wasn't hurt a bit.
Promptly laying down the chicken leg, the chunk of salt-rising bread, and cucumber pickle with which he had been abundantly supplied by one of the dear old sisters, and assuming an appropriate oratorical pose, with his eyes intent upon his interrogator, he began: "My sainted grandfather was, during the later years of his long and useful life, a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church."
"Have you ever felt jealousy?" continued his undisturbed interrogator. "Would any love, that have not?" A gentle respiration was heard in the cabin, during the short pause that succeeded, though none could tell whence it came.
Having spoken, the missionary again paused, that his words might produce their effect. Bear's Meat now became his interrogator, rising respectfully, and standing during the colloquy that succeeded. "My brother has spoken a great tradition," said the Menominee. "Did he first hear it from his fathers?" "In part, only.
"Is it to the judge or to the husband?" stammered Madame de Villefort. "To the judge to the judge, madame!" It was terrible to behold the frightful pallor of that woman, the anguish of her look, the trembling of her whole frame. "Ah, sir," she muttered, "ah, sir," and this was all. "You do not answer, madame!" exclaimed the terrible interrogator.
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