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The old farmer looked hard at him, and shook his head and laughed in a way that would have been insupportable in a house, and told him, "I hev narra bond o' thoine, mon." "I know how that is; so does Philip Feltram." "Well?" "Well, I must replace the money." The old man laughed again, and in his outlandish dialect told him to wait till he asked him.
Finally Tim's terror passed away and he became comparatively quiet. "Worrah! worrah!" he exclaimed, panting from his severe exertions. "What a narra 'scape I had." "Did he really bite you?" "Bite me! Didn't ye see him fasten his teeth in me and hang on till I shuk him off?" "No; I didn't observe him." "Git out wid ye nonsense.
"Why, a Scotch sort of a gentleman, as I said before," returned mine host; "they are all gentle, ye mun know, though they ha' narra shirt to back; but this is a decentish hallion a canny North Briton as e'er cross'd Berwick Bridge I trow he's a dealer in cattle."
Malecon: A drive along the bay shore of Manila, opposite the Walled City. Mestizo: A person of mixed Filipino and Spanish blood; sometimes applied also to a person of mixed Filipino and Chinese blood. nakú: A Tagalog exclamation of surprise, wonder, etc. narra: The Philippine mahogany.
'A curse upon you, Tom! said he. 'Would you roast us alive, this hot night? Leave the fire alone and bring your hang-dog face here! He treated his associate with the most bitter contempt. 'I doant fancy biding here with narra light! said the fellow. 'There be a mort of ugly things here! 'There's nothing uglier than your own carcase. Drink and get courage.
At the end opposite the entrance, under a print of St. Thomas Aquinas, rose the professor's chair on an elevated platform with a little stairway on each side. With the exception of a beautiful blackboard in a narra frame, scarcely ever used, since there was still written on it the viva that had appeared on the opening day, no furniture, either useful or useless, was to be seen.
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