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At the house of the principal of the high school I eat tchibureks, and saddle of lamb with boiled grain; in various estimable families I eat green soup; at the confectioner's I eat in my hotel also. I go to bed at ten and I get up at ten, and after dinner I lie down and rest, and yet I am bored, dear Lika.
"Most verra big," she warned again. "All right. Fire away." "Well, den " She drew a big breath like a child, as she voiced to the uttermost all she cared to demand of life. "I lika da have one milka ranch good milka ranch. Plenty cow, plenty land, plenty grass. I lika da have near San Le-an; my sister liva dere. I sella da milk in Oakland. I maka da plentee mon. Joe an' Nick no runna da cow.
He looked eminently handsome in his Henry III. costume, and was disposed to be as luxurious as his original. He had brought Count Lika, Secretary of Legation to the Austrian Embassy, dressed as an Albanian, with him. The two were stretched on couches, and discoursing of my father's reintroduction of the sedan chair to society.
The old man sat before some twenty wide-eyed children, one of whom stood slouch-shouldered, book in hand, in the center of the room, and at regular intervals of not more than twenty seconds he shouted high above all other noises of the neighborhood: "Yo calls dat Eng-leesh! How eber yo gon' l'arn talk proper lika dat, yo tell me?"
"Bread-butter. Pietro lika heem." "That Arlo Weeks Junior!" cried Janice suddenly. "Oh, Daddy, there he is outside." There was a loud explosion of laughter back of the bear and his trainer, on the dark porch, and then the clatter of running feet. Junior's proclivity for practical jokes was too well known for the Days to doubt his connivance in this most surprising happening.
"Oh, signor, eef all de police were lika you we be not afraid." Just then he dropped his eyes, and Burke noticed that his hand trembled as he suddenly reached for a big orange and held it up. The man spoke with a surprising constraint, still holding his look upon the fruit. "Signor, here's a fine orange. You wanta buy heem?"
I letta dissa missiolary man ca'y me jusso far he can. So missiolary man stag' long tem 'long load, an' kep' sweat, sweat semma lika glass ice-wadder; an' Chan Tow kep' gloan semma like ole barn daw." "Chan Tow kept groaning like an old barn door, and the missionary man kept perspiring like a glass of ice-water?" "Oh, no! Missiolary man sweat.
'In his opinion, Lika accepted the invitation to pursue, 'Prince Ernest will not let that announcement stand uncontradicted. My father's eyes dwelt on him. 'Are we accused of it? Lika slipped from the question. 'Who is accused of a newspaper's doings? It is but the denial of a statement. 'I dare them to deny it! and, Lika, my dear fellow, light me a cigarette, said my father.
Yesterday's adventure did not astonish or greatly disappoint me, for I was prepared for it by the rehearsals and I don't feel particularly bad. When you come to Melihovo bring Lika with you. PETERSBURG, October 18, 1896. The play has fallen flat, and come down with a crash. There was an oppressive strained feeling of disgrace and bewilderment in the theatre. The actors played abominably stupidly.
There were four about half as many as there were in some of the other flats when the item of house rent was lessened for economic reasons; but it covered the ground: the flat was too small for the Gios. The appeal of the signora was unavailing. "You got-a three bambino," she said to the housekeeper, "all four, lika me," counting the number on her fingers.
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