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"But I'm going to lock it up, and hide the key this time," he continued; "because I have to send Ignacio on urgent matters into the eastern parts of Bolivia, to " "To git help, an' tell de noos about de mischif what's a-brewin'," said the negro abruptly, with a pointed stare at the guide, and an arrested potato on the end of his fork.
Geoffrey," she demanded, "why did they call you 'Guv'nor', and wherefore 'Sir'?" Ravenslee, in the act of lighting his pipe, had paused for a suitable answer, when Tony, who had remained mute in a corner, stepped forward and spoke: "Say, Geoff, I got-a bit-a more noos. Old-a Finlay-a want-a spik with-a you " "Old Finlay with me?" "Sure.
"I hope the daws ain't the worse of their ducking?" asked Billy, with an expression of anxious interest. "Aw, my dear," said Maggot, looking very sad, and shaking his head slowly, "didn't 'ee hear the noos?" "No, not I."
'I believe I'll fake a telegram and see if I can't work my old German friend with it. I wrote out a message to myself, 'All garments on the second floor are steam heated. They are really uninjured but we will collect insurance on them. Sell cheap. "Armed with this telegram I walked into the old German's store again. 'Enny noos? said he.
That afternoon, after Peter had cooked a wonderfully good luncheon, I had a heart-to-heart talk with Blenkiron. 'My business is to get noos, he said; 'and before I start on a stunt I make considerable preparations. All the time in London when I was yelping at the British Government, I was busy with Sir Walter arranging things ahead. We used to meet in queer places and at all hours of the night.
They must be awful lonesome since you left. Any noos?" "Well, I should snicker if there wasn't! The master's got into an awful row!" His listener sighed deeply. What an opportunity this would have been to set his version of the story going! "What's eatin' him?" he asked with wonderful self-control. "Neil kids been lickin' him again?" "Worse nor that; he's got into a row with Splinterin' Andra!"
W'en we hearn de noos, Aun' Lucy, de cook, she up 'n say she seed de strange nigger eat'n' er de scuppernon's behine de smoke-house; en den we knowed de goopher had b'en er wukkin'. Den one er de nigger chilluns runned away fum de quarters one day, en got in de scuppernon's, en died de nex' week. W'ite folks say he die' er de fevuh, but de niggers knowed it wuz de goopher.
Everybody's jest dyin' to hear the noos. So I invited a select number of 'em to come here to yer parlors to-night, Miss Frona, ez the only likely place, an' they kin read it out loud, by shifts, ez long ez they want or till they're tired that is, if you'll let 'em have the use of the place." "Why, of course, they are welcome. And you are very kind to " He waved her praise away.
I inwents the noos as I goes along; an you should see that old lady's face, an' the way 'er eyes opens we'n I'm a tapin' off the murders an' the 'ighway robberies, an' the burglaries an' the fires at 'ome, an' the wars an' earthquakes an' other scrimmages abroad. It do cheer 'er up most wonderful. Of course, I stick in any hodd bits o' real noos I 'appens to git hold of, but I ain't partickler."
"What's the matter?" "I always forget, sir. Wound reminds me when I go too fast, and aren't careful. All right again soon, though. Don't hear no noos of the war being over, sir, I s'pose?" "No, Samson, none. Tired of it?" "Tired, sir? I don't know about tired, but I can't help thinking of the manor now and then, and what sort of a state my garden will be in.
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