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Updated: May 18, 2025
"An English race course doesn't do after this, I can tell you. I went down to the Derby when I was at home, and such an assembly of riff raff I never saw before and never wish to see again." "These people are more picturesque, Dr. Wade," Mrs. Hunter said, "but that is merely a question of garment; these people perhaps are no more trustworthy than those you met on the racecourse at home."
For God's sake, open, man! or ye may rue this hour to that o' your deein struggle, when Laird and Leddie may be in the moil there, ahint the auld chapel, and a' through the laziness o' their warder." "Raff i' the mire!" cried the warder saluting him after the custom of the times, when every man had a distinctive appellation, in the absence of sirnames.
First she played only for a little, then for five-franc pieces, then for Napoleons, then for notes: then she would not be able to pay her month's pension: then she borrowed from the young gentlemen: then she got into cash again and bullied Madame de Borodino, whom she had coaxed and wheedled before: then she was playing for ten sous at a time, and in a dire state of poverty: then her quarter's allowance would come in, and she would pay off Madame de Borodino's score and would once more take the cards against Monsieur de Rossignol, or the Chevalier de Raff.
"It wasn't in reason," as she afterward said to Hans, "to wait any longer, when a word from the father would settle all. No woman living but would want to know how he came by that watch." Raff Brinker turned the bright polished thing over and over in his hand, then he examined the bit of smoothly ironed black ribbon fastened to it. He seemed hardly to recognize it.
"Peyton went to the Green Spring Valley for a hunt party last night," she told him; "he said he'd be back." Why, then, he almost exclaimed, he, Lee, had been successful with Mina Raff. Instead he said that she would undoubtedly be glad of that. "Oh, yes!
"Well he may, mynheer," cried the dame, "for only last night we found a thousand guilders that's been lost to us these ten years." Dr. Boekman opened his eyes. "Yes, mynheer," said Raff. "I bid the vrouw tell you, though it's to be held a secret among us, for I see you can keep your lips closed as well as any man." The doctor scowled. He never liked personal remarks.
In his confusion the boy stammered he had been working on a concerto. When Raff started to go, he turned back and told the boy to bring the concerto to him the next Sunday. As even the first movement was not finished, its author set to work with vigor. When Sunday came only the first movement was ready.
When Heymann, who had already begun to show symptoms of the mental disorder which ultimately overcame him, left the Conservatory in 1881, he recommended MacDowell as his successor a proposal which was cordially seconded by Raff. But there were antagonistic influences at work within the Conservatory.
But what with working and studying, Hans has been busy enough without seeking comrades." "Working and studying," echoed Raff, in a musing tone. "Can the youngsters read and cipher, Meitje?" "You should hear them!" she answered proudly. "They can run through a book while I mop the floor. Hans there is as happy over a page of big words as a rabbit in a cabbage patch; as for ciphering "
"Look at 'im 'gain, look, good lilly gal!" continued he, at the same time making an effort to elevate the shoulder which gave support to his protege. "Wha be it? I ain't de raff, de Catamaran? Eh?" "No, no," replied the child. "It isn't that. It's a small thing of a square shape. It looks like a box." "A box? how come dat? A box! what de debbel!"
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