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Lala Roy read the receipt, and put it in his pocket. Then he rose and remarked, with a smile of supreme superiority: "It is a pleasure to give money to you, and to such as you, Mr. Chalker." "Is it?" he replied with a grin. "Give me some more, then." "You are one of those who, the richer they become, the less harm they do. Many Englishmen are of this disposition.
How then to ascertain whether anybody was expecting or looking for a girl to claim an inheritance? Then there was half a coat-of-arms, and lastly there was a certain customer of unknown name, who had been acquainted with Iris's father before his marriage. So far for Iris. As for the thief, Lala Roy had no doubt at all.
But it did me good, it really did, to hear all about the gentle blood. Come, Joe. Let us go away quietly." She took her husband's arm. Joe was standing sullen and desperate. Mr. Chalker was right. It wanted very little more to make him fall upon the whole party, and go off with a fight. "Young woman," said Lala Roy, "you had better not go outside the house with the man.
If any accident befall you, what is this promise of payment? Nothing." "At least, you will suffer me to make this voyage with my child." "I do not purpose to send her to Elche," returned the old man, calmly. "'Tis a risk I will not undertake. I have said that when I am paid three thousand ducats, I will give Lala Mollah freedom, and I will keep my word.
A small steamer, the Kia Ora, which made periodical visits to the island to collect the government taxes in copra, arrived one day in the bay. Ratu Lala thought this would be a good opportunity for us to make a fishing expedition to Vuna. We went on board the steamer while our large boat was towed behind.
I will come upon Marchetto by accident, and he will of course want to show me the Rhodes tapestry; then I will spend the whole morning over the bargain, and I shall not miss the Lala if he comes." Balsamides was evidently fully roused, and as we smoked a last cigarette in his rooms that night he talked enthusiastically of what he hoped to accomplish on the next day.
There was some justification for Kim he had kicked Lala Dinanath's boy off the trunnions since the English held the Punjab and Kim was English.
Ai lala lala! Ai lallu!" Jan Jacobus sat with his big jaw dropping. Stupid boor that he was, he could not have explained the terrifying effect which this wild music and those tense, uplifting faces had upon him, but he would have given anything to be back in his mother's kitchen, with the lamp lit and the dark, unfamiliar night shut out. As suddenly as the singing had begun, it stopped.
In the garden above Mesar Burnu you will see the heap of ashes, which is all that remains of the kiosk where I gave my unlucky tea-party; and if you will turn up the bridle-path at the left of the Belgrade road, a hundred yards before you reach the aqueduct, you will come upon the spot where Gregorios threatened to kill Selim, the wicked Lala, on that bitter March night.
Lala Roy spoke slowly, and with meaning. "Oh!" cried Arnold. "It is more than strange. Do you think is it possible " He could not for the moment clothe his thoughts in words. "Do you know if any one has brought this girl to England?" "Yes; she was brought over by a young American physician, one of the family who adopted and brought her up." "What is he like the young American physician?"
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