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He clasped and unclasped his hands convulsively, he moistened his dry lips with his tongue, and looked about him with a weak, almost despairing laugh. Then he began in another way. "The Christian was a Portuguee from Marmora. He was set in the wall with his arms outstretched on either side the attitude of a man crucified.
Finally, a patriarch arose and said: "Oh, children of the Prophet, it is known unto you that a Portuguee dog of a Christian clock mender pollutes the city of Tangier with his presence. Ye know, also, that when mosques are builded, asses bear the stones and the cement, and cross the sacred threshold.
Moreover, doubtless by now he was dead, so what was the good of bothering about him? These sentiments appeared to appeal to the Boers, for they remarked: "Ja, what is the good?" "Is it right," asked Marais, "to abandon a comrade in misfortune, one of our own blood?" "Mein Gott!" replied Vrouw Prinsloo; "he is no blood of mine, the evil-odoured Portuguee.
"The unbelievin' critters thinks that Portuguee rag is all my eye." But the Good Intent was by this time to windward of the vessels, and Captain Barker, standing on the quarterdeck, paid no heed to the signal.
This was a category our friend had a feeling for; a light, romantic and mysterious, on the feminine element, in which he enjoyed for a little watching it. "Are there any Poles?" His companion considered. "I think I make out a 'Portuguee. But I've seen Turks." Strether wondered, desiring justice. "They seem all the women very harmonious." "Oh in closer quarters they come out!"
They say the world is round, which is my own opinion first, because the glorious Sir Francis Drake, and divers other Englishmen, have gone in, as it were, at one end, and out at the other; no less than several seamen of other nations, to say nothing of one Magellan, who pretends to have been the first man to make the passage, which I take to be neither more nor less than a Portuguee lie, it being altogether unreasonable to suppose that a Portuguee should do what an Englishman had not yet thought of doing; secondly, if the world were not round, or some such shape, why should we see the small sails of a ship before her courses, or why should her truck heave up into the horizon before the hull?
They are only Spanish or Portuguee trout, and not half so good as roach and dace out of a good old English pond." Pen laughed merrily again. "Ah, grin away! I think I ought to know." "Yes better than to grumble when I have broiled the fish so nicely over the wood embers with sticks I cut for skewers. They were delicious, and I ate till I felt ashamed." "So you ought to be."
He wouldn't be terrified with a pack of lies by a cocky half-bred little quill-driver. He was not going to be bullied by "no object of that sort," if the story were true "ever so"! He bawled his wish, his desire, his determination to go to bed. "If you weren't a God-forsaken Portuguee," I heard him yell, "you would know that the hospital is the right place for me."
You do your duty and you're all right. But if you don't' Well, the men ain't Americans any more, Dutch, Spaniards, Chinese, Portuguee, and it ain't like abusing a white man." Jonathan Tinker was plainly part of the horrible tyranny which we all know exists on shipboard; and his listener respected him the more that, though he had heart enough to be ashamed of it, he was too honest not to own it.
Finally, a patriarch arose and said: "Oh, children of the Prophet, it is known unto you that a Portuguee dog of a Christian clock mender pollutes the city of Tangier with his presence. Ye know, also, that when mosques are builded, asses bear the stones and the cement, and cross the sacred threshold.
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