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"Vat's the mattaire?" came a leering voice and, turning they beheld Klusky, the renegade. He had entered silently, as usual, and now darted shrewd inquiring glances at them. "George has the scurvy." "Oi! Oi! Oi! Vat a peety." He seemed about to say more but refrained, coming forward rubbing his hands nervously. "It ain't possible that a 'sour dough' shall have the scoivy."
'I wish to be high up, out of de dust and in de light, explained the Baroness. 'We have no suites on the third floor, madam. 'Never mind, no mattaire! Have you not two rooms that communicate? Nella consulted her books, rather awkwardly. 'Numbers 122 and 123 communicate. 'Or is it 121 and 122? the little old lady remarked quickly, and then bit her lip. 'I beg your pardon.
Wanley's part in the transaction, a strictly honourable one, is fully recorded in the Diary. On the 26th December 1724, he wrote: "The last night Mr. Mattaire came to me and said that he had seen Signor Zamboni, and nine MSS. which are lately come to him from Italy that they will soon be sent to his house without being shown to any other, and that then I shall see them forthwith.
Me grieving, he joyously addressed. "Ohe! my youngish friends" his general term in speaking to me "how goes it? Hi lo!" he went on, seeing from my face, as I turned my head to speak to him, that, "it" did not "go" particularly well "Hi lo! vat ees ze mattaire? you look pallide; you have got ze migraine?" "No," I answered; "there's nothing the matter with me, I assure you, Monsieur Parole.
"Ah, cré nom d'un nom! I haf to go, queek!" "Where to?" "No mattaire. I tank you all to-morrow. I explain eferyting den. Now, I go." "You had better stay where you are, Monsieur de Courtois," said Steingall in French. "Milord Valletort and Count Vassilan have arrived. I have seen them, and nothing more can be done with respect to their affair tonight.
'Ave I not been telling of ze beautiful villas and ze countrie?" "You weren't asked to," I retorted. "Nobody wanted it." "Zat does not mattaire. Ze signor will pay for ze cicerone." "I'll see you hanged first." "Zen we shall see." He turned his mules to the side of the road next the precipice. I caught a glimpse of an ugly knife in the handkerchief round his waist.
And further, that this Signor expects a little parcel of Greek MSS., not yet arrived." Three weeks later he again wrote: "This morning I went to Mr. Mattaire, with whom I saw fifteen old Latin MSS., or fragments of MSS., belonging now to Signor Zamboni, but formerly to the Dutch Professor Graevius. He opened a negotiation, and after some months wrote thus:
I'm all right, thank you." "Ah! but yes," he retorted "you cannote deceives me. You are pallide; you take walks on feet this detestable day. Mon Dieu! votre climat c'est affreux! I knows ver wells, Meestaire Lorton, dat somesings ees ze mattaire!" "But, I'm quite well, I tell you," said I. "Quaite well en physique, bon: quaite well, here?" tapping his chest expressively the while "non!
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