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And there was another reason for her success. She carried with her a chorus of a dozen pickaninnies. In Austria darkies were as rare as cats, and there were no cats! So the little chorus had made good. Each day she walked in the Prater, ermine from head to foot, and behind her two by two trailed twelve little Southern darkies in red-velvet coats and caps, grinning sociably.
You now reach the Prater. It is an extensive flat, surrounded by branches of the Danube, and planted on each side with double rows of horse-chestnut trees. The drive, in one straight line, is probably a league in length. It is divided by two roads, in one of which the company move onward, and in the other they return.
"Any one would think that you had never walked a dozen steps in the Prater," said his wife; "these same rare cones and mushrooms are to be found there too!" "The Prater! Heavens, how can you mention it! What is there in the Prater but carriages and swords, gowns and fans, music and hubbub!
'That's excellent, said Prater. 'I was afraid we should have to send him to a home somewhere. 'I suppose we can't keep him after all? suggested Mrs Prater. Trentham waited in suspense. 'No, said Prater, decidedly. 'I think not. So Captain Kettle went, and the House knew him no more, and the Tabby Terror was at an end.
Already this vapour was beginning to clear off, coiling up in fleecy wisps above the glistening water, but clinging still to any bluff or cliff it could lay hold on. "Halloa, Jem! Where be going of now?" shouted one or two voices from the Oar-stone point, the furthest outlook of the Havenhead hill. "To see them Frenchy hoppers get a jolly hiding," Jem Prater replied, without easing his sculls.
"Forgiven!" cried the traitor, furious and desperate—"Forgiven!—this to a Roman citizen!—this to a Roman noble! Hear me, Fathers and Conscript Senators—hear me!—who am a soldier and a man, and neither driveller nor dotard. I tell you, there is no conspiracy, hath been none, shall be none—save in the addled brains of yon prater from Arpinum, who would fain set his foot upon the neck of Romans.
The emperor Napoleon wished the archduke Charles to take the command of these thirty thousand men; but the archduke fortunately saved himself from this insult; and when I saw him walking alone in a brown coat, in the alleys of the Prater, I recovered all my old respect for him.
In the midst of his explanations Phil stopped, and his manner grew more rough than ever with a sort of shyness in it too. It was because some of the boys were within hearing, leaning over the pales which separated the playground from the road. "I say; hello there!" cried one. "Is that Prater you have got with you?" "Prater the second," cried another.
Several smaller dinners had been consumed already, by way of practice, both for the cooks and the waiters and the chairman, and Mr. John Prater, who always stood behind him, with a napkin in one hand and a corkscrew in the other, and his heart in the middle, ready either to assuage or stimulate. As for the guests, it was always found that no practice had been required. "But now, but now" as Mr.
Pray, sir," turning to Major Delavie, "have you ever seen these young Archduchesses whose pretensions seem likely to convulse the continent to its centre?" The Major, with an effort to gather his attention, replied that he could not remember; but Betty, with greater presence of mind, described how she had admired the two sisters of Austria as little girls walking on the Prater. Indeed she and Mr.
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