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"Bot you have bought ze kilt, ze Highland hat, ze brogue shoes." "I had them made to your measurements." The Baron impetuously embraced his thoughtful friend. Then again his smile died away. "Bot, Bonker, my voice! Zey tell me I haf nozing zat you vould call qvite an accent; bot a foreigner one does regognize him, eh?" "I shall explain that in a sentence.
The Baroness looked at him reproachfully. "You promised me, Rudolph, you would see as little as possible of Mr. Essington." "Oh, ja, as leetle as possible," answered the Baron, though not with his most ingenuous air. "Besides, it is tree years since I promised. For tree years I have seen nozing. My love Alicia, you vould not have me forget mine friends altogezzer?"
Gresley, "and she is not with the Pratts." "I know always she is not wiz ze Pratts," said Fräulein, scornfully. "She never go to Pratt if she is in grief. I go out at half seven this morning to ze Br-r-rowns, but Miss Br-r-rown know nozing. I go to Wilderleigh, I see Mrs. Loftus still in bed, but she is not there. I go to Evannses, I go to Smeeth, I go last to Mistair Valsh, but she is not there."
It is nozing to me.” “Well, my dear Baron,” said Mr Bunker, like a man persuaded against his will, “what can I say? I confess I might find a little difficulty in replenishing my purse without resorting to disagreeable means, and if you really wish my society, why——” “Zen it is a bairgain?” cried the Baron. “If you insist——” “I insist. Vaiter! Alzo two ozzer liqueur.
I forgot zat is 'is Ismailiah 'ouse," pointing a long, brown finger to a huge pink edifice, standing like a huge pink birthday cake under the blazing sun on the edge of the town "'e 'as no woman no not an one not wife not lady zere is tales of one wife long ago over zere," pointing vaguely in the direction he imagined South Arabia might be, "but feared, we say and ask nozing no! ze great Hahmed live alone not zere " Once more pointing contemptuously to the pink abode.
The Count informed him. "Tollivoddlesh is nozing to vat I am at home! Abs'lutely nozing! I have a house twice as big as zis, and servants Ach, so many I know not! Bot, mein Bonker, it is not soch fon as zis! Mein Gott, I most get to bed. I toss ze caber to-morrow." And upon the arm of his faithful ally he moved cautiously towards his bedroom.
Vas zere any news of ze Galloshes?" "Yes, they seem very well. Old Rentoul has caught a salmon. Gallosh hopes to get a fair bag " "Bot did zey say nozing about about Miss Eva?" "The letter was written by her, you see." "SHE wrote to YOU! Strange!" "Very odd, isn't it?" The Baron meditated for a minute and then inquired "Vat of ze Maddisons?" "Well, I gather that Mr.
"A young girl " she was beginning, when a buxom little figure, black veiled and habited like herself, rose up as if from the bowels of the earth. "I vill look. But I can see nozing," she called to someone invisible below. "It must be that you vait until my eyes shall become more strong." She shaded them, newly brought from semi-darkness and blinking in the hot, white sunlight.
The Count, indeed, had rather avoided than sought advice on the subject, and the piper, after several confidential conversations and the passage of a sum of silver into his sporran, displayed an equally Delphic tendency. The Baron, therefore, argued the present point no longer. "It is jost a mere ceremony," he said. "Ach, vell, nozing vill happen. Zis ghost vat is his name?"
Gallosh to share your vigil." "Gallosh he vould not be moch good sopposing Ach, but nozing vill happen! I vill ask him." The pride of Mr. Gallosh on being selected as his lordship's friend on this historic occasion was pleasant to witness. "It's just a bit of fiddle-de-dee," he informed his delighted family.
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