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We quitted the train at Oos, and walked the entire remaining distance to Baden-Baden, with the exception of a lift of less than an hour which we got on a passing wagon, the weather being exhaustingly warm. We came into town on foot. One of the first persons we encountered, as we walked up the street, was the Rev.
If Macnamara be alive, what be Macnamara doin'? An' what be Wingate an' Kitchener an' great foolks at Cairo doin'?" "They're sayin', 'Macnamara, 'oos 'e? 'E ain't no class. 'Oo wants Macnamara!" Holgate raised himself on his elbow, a look of interest in his face, which he tried to disguise. "See, laad," he said, "why does tha not send messenger thaself a troosty messenger?"
At last one of them a lanky youth, with a frowning, ironic expression and famous as a heckler at public meetings said with slow emphasis: "There'll coom a day i' this coontry, mates, when men as treat poor foak like Muster Melrose, 'ull be pulled off t' backs of oos an' our like. And may aa live to see 't!" "Aye! aye!" came in deep assent from the others, as they turned away.
It bore the aspect of a somewhat forbidding prison. "Konak palace," said the keeper, breaking silence for the first time. "A konak; a palace! eh?" repeated Lancey, in surprise; "more like a jail, I should say. 'Owever, customs differ. Oos palace may it be, now?" "Pasha; Sanda Pasha," replied the man, touching a spring or bell in the wall; "you goes in."
David met them at the station; but Reuben persisted in going to an old-fashioned eating-house in the centre of the city, where he had been accustomed to stay on the occasion of his rare visits to Manchester, in spite of his nephew's repeated offers of hospitality. 'Noa, Davy, noa, he said, 'yo're a gen'leman now, and yo conno' be moidered wi' oos.
He added, as he handed me a great sealed envelope, "There is your passport. Nothing imperative requires my stay here: I shall accompany you, then, as far as the station of Oos, and while you are continuing your route toward your beloved metropolis, I will go and finish my leave of absence at Baden-Baden, where I am claimed by certain conditions of my liver."
During two mortal weeks we stayed at Baden-Baden, taking the baths, improving our German and driving through the Black Forest and the Oos Valley to the green hills beyond. Then on one happy day we were all packed to go. We sent our trunks down, saw every drawer emptied, pulled the bed to pieces, looked under it and decided that this time we hadn't left so much as a pin.
Polly coughed loudly, and tried to make a diversion by getting up to clear away the plates. The three combatants took no notice. Daffady slowly ran his tongue round his lips; then he said, again looking at the mistress: "If a hadna turned her I dew believe she'd ha' gien oos t' slip she was terr'ble swollen as 'twos." "I tell tha to let her be!" thundered Hubert.
Luke ye, he continued, dropping his voice as he opened the 'house' door for her; 'ef you want ayder ov oos, you jest call oot sharp! Mrs. Irwin, shell stay in wi' ye she's not afeeard! The superstitious excitement which the looks and gestures of the old man expressed touched Catherine's imagination, and she entered the room with an inward shiver.
Luke ye, he continued, dropping his voice as he opened the 'house' door for her; 'ef you want ayder ov oos, you just call oot sharp! Mrs. Irwin, she'll stay in wi' ye she's not afeeard! The superstitious excitement which the looks and gestures of the old man expressed, touched Catherine's imagination, and she entered the room with an inward shiver.
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