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"If they could all be put to some steady work it would be the best thing for them," said Judith. "Idleness is the mother of mischief. Blasi is not an ill-meaning fellow, but he is lazy, greatly to his own injury. Long Jost is the worst of the two; a sly-boots, and a rare one too. It is to be hoped that he will break his own leg, when he's trying to trip some one else up with it."
Ah don't want to go round feelin' like a sheet of papah half the time." "You could rattle on, just the same," suggested Alma. "Oh, now! Jost listen to that, Mr. Fulkerson. Do you call that any way to toak to people?"
I am noble, and most be so accordingly." "What steps do you propose to take?" inquired Bunker with perfect gravity. The Baron stared at the picture. "Last night I had a dream. It vas zat man at least, probably it vas, for I cannot remember eggsactly. He did pursue me mit a kilt." "With what did you defend yourself?" "I know not: I jost remember zat it should be a warning.
I ran out after them, and I heard Jost advising Dietrich to make off as fast as he could, and send him word where he hid himself. When I came up to them, Jost pushed me back; I couldn't get a word with Dietrich, who ran right off, and Jost pulled me into the house.
"Are you aware," he asked at last, "that Jost, to save his 'press' prestige, has turned informer against you?" Perousse sprang up, white with fury. "By Heaven, if he has dared! "There is no 'if' in the case" said Lutera very coldly "He has, as he himself says, 'done his duty. You must be pretty well cognisant of what a Jew's notions of 'duty' are!
A particularly hilarious evening in the drawing-room completed the triumph of mind over what he was now able to term "jost nonsense," and he slept that night as soundly as the Count was simultaneously slumbering in Sir Justin's bed-room. And there was no unpleasant awakening in the Baron's case. On the contrary, all nature seemed in a conspiracy to make the last day of his adventure pleasant.
I would tell him myself, but I will never speak to him again. Will you come for me tomorrow or not, Blasi?" she had turned to leave him. "Why of course, if that's the way it is about Jost, I'll come. You may count on me," he replied gleefully. She held out her hand to him, and was gone.
If he told the Chief of Police that this Pasquin Leroy was believed to have counterfeited the Prime Minister's signet, in order to obtain an interview with David Jost, why then the Chief of Police would be informed once and for all that the Prime Minister was in confidential communication with the Jew- proprietor of a stock-jobbing newspaper! And that would never do!
He had said these words standing on the outskirts of the crowd. He now grasped his cudgel and began to steal slowly towards Friesshardt, who had just given Werni the huntsman such a hit with his pike that the sound of it was still echoing in the mountains, and was now busily engaged in disposing of Jost Weiler.
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