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"But his friendliness disarmed me and I allowed him to draw near.... 'Li'l' ladee wantee see you quick; you cum foller me, he said, and turned back from where he came.... I followed him with beating heart.... On the dock at the landing where the gunboat was steaming up MARIA met me with moistened eyes....
"Ye-es, my lil ladee you are lil ladee of the Engleesh mandarin!" he heard the reply the reply of a Chinaman. "I now take my vengeance for my own child as I have each year promised. Give me the pretty jewels. You wanted to sell them, eh? But you will give them to me! I watched you take them from the table while they were all at the party.
"I brought the baby down from the room in the extension, and you took him from me and thanked me very much. You remember this? You said you would lose your place if the baby had been burned." "Ah, then you are the young gentleman so brave who save the babee from being burn? Ah, yes, that was very brave. The ladee give you the reward, yes? That was very good." "Yes, but what about the watch?
To-night I have bought one young ladee verree pretty so fina, gorda, blandita! To-morrow the chili will be ready. Ahora si! One thousand dollars I pay for thees young ladee. From an Americano I have bought a verree tip-top man el Capitan Peek que es, Señor?" For Tansey had sprung to his feet, upsetting the chair. The words of Katie reverberated in his ears: "They're going to eat me, Sam."
"Was anyone else present when you shaved him?" "An old Indian woman, Senor, that belonged with the casa, and one senorita a ladee of so much beautee! ah, Dios!" "All right, Esteban," said Goodwin. "It's very lucky that you happened along with your tonsorial information. The new administration will be likely to remember you for this."
Holding on with his hand to an imaginary small chain and at the same time baring his teeth, squatting like a monkey, winking his eyelids often, and scratching now his posteriors, now the hair on his head, he sang through his nose, in a monotonous and sad voice, distorting the words: "The i-young cissack to the war has went, The i-young ladee underneath the fence lies spraw-aw-ling.
Little Billie was playin' near us, for Mitch was makin' him a little onion bed, and Dick was ridin' Little Billie on his shoulder, and he was as gay as a jay-bird and singin'. One of his songs was: Oh, said a wood-pecker settin' on a tree, I once courted a fair ladee. She proved fickle and from me fled, And ever since then my head's been red.
Me like honorable garden and beautiful American ladee," answered O'Kami, speaking slowly and distinctly. English pronunciation never seemed to trouble the Japanese. It was only choice of words and construction. "What do you do all day, O'Kami San?" asked Elinor. "Much honorable work," answered the Japanese girl. "Cook-ing; sew-ing"; she pointed to her kimono; "mu-seek; book-stu-dee.
He play beeg museeck for you and ze ladee last night. So?" "He did and took us off our feet. Tell him, will you?" "He no un'erstand," laughed Louis, "eef I tell him 'off de feet." "That's so no American idioms yet for him, eh? Well, say he made us very happy with his wonderful music. I'll wager that will get over to him."
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