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And with this I ran up the old steps, and rang and knocked, while several bearded faces came and gazed through dingy windows. "Can I see Mrs. Strouss?" I asked, when a queer old man in faded brown livery came to the door with a candle in his hand, though the sun was shining. "I am the Meesther Strouss; when you see me, you behold the good Meeses Strouss also."
On emerging, he shouted and whipped up his oxen, and off we lumbered. When we came to a hill, and our pace was sufficiently slackened for speech, Mrs. Gilbert called to him, "Jan, where is my change?" "Oh, Meeses!" exclaimed Jan, quite unabashed; "I took the change in tobacco!" That was Claudia's way. And, after all, there was an opportunity. Claudia's Place
Linden had brought him to life again; and that old Talbot had given him a hundred thousand pounds, and adopted him as his son; and that how Mr. Linden was going to be sent to foreign parts, as an ambassador, or governor, or great person; and that how meester and meeses were quite 'cut up' about it." All these particulars having been duly deposited in the mind of Mr.
I cannot let such a thing as their taking our provisions pass without notice. Jan," she said, when he returned, "you have taken my butter." "Oh, Meeses!" exclaimed Jan, as if such a thing was quite out of the question, "not me. It must ha' bin April." "No, Meeses not me, Jan," said April. "It was both of you, I have no doubt," said Mrs. Gilbert severely.
Beside his wife Harold was standing, offensively smug and inefficient in the fashionable frock-coat and silk hat of the time, a restraining influence as yet. He was bowing and smiling: "Oh." This sound was neither an "oh" nor an "ah," but a kind of Danish inflected "awe," which was usually not unpleasing to hear. "How are you, once more, Meeses Cowperwood?
"The lady what you hear that ees Meeses T-S. You know Meester T-S, the magnate of the peectures?" Carpenter did not say whether he knew or not. "They come to me always, the peecture people; to me. the magician, the deputee of the god of beautee. Polly Pretty, she comes, and Dolly Dimple, she comes, and Lucy Love, she comes, and Betty Belle Bird.
"Jan," called his mistress, "you must not steal that wood. The man it belongs to told the Baas he lost so much that he should put somebody to watch, and have any one who was caught taken before Mr. Huntly." "April," shouted Jan, laughing, "look out for old Huntly. The Meeses says we must stop it."
"Oh, Meeses, April, April!" cried Jan, shaking his head. "No, it was Jan," protested the leader, again. Jan burst into a roar of laughter, like a naughty child owning up. "Oh! ja, Meeses! It was me. I looked at that tin of butter and then I said to April, 'I must have some of that lovely butter, whatever comes of it, and then between us, it's all gone."
Linden had brought him to life again; and that old Talbot had given him a hundred thousand pounds, and adopted him as his son; and that how Mr. Linden was going to be sent to foreign parts, as an ambassador, or governor, or great person; and that how meester and meeses were quite 'cut up' about it." All these particulars having been duly deposited in the mind of Mr.
Billings; her brother, also a slubber, had arrived early, but had scarcely taken two delightful, exquisite drinks before she came on the scene, her eyes flashing, her hair disheveled, and her hand playing familiarly with something under her apron. Her presence threw them into a panic. "Mine Gott!" said Billy, turning pale. "Eet es Meeses Billings an' her crockery."
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