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"Oh Massa Geral, for Hebben's sake no talkee dat. It berry long time ago, and break poor nigger heart to tink ob it " "But I insist on knowing," returned Gerald loudly and peremptorily; "were you old enough to recollect the curse that poor heart-broken woman, Ellen Halloway, uttered on all our race, and if so what was it?" "No, Massa Geral, I no sabby dat.
"Oh yes, Massa Geral, berry bad tongue Ellen, affir he lose he husband but, poor ting, he half mad and no sabby what he say. He time to start for he gun boat, Massa Geral." The part Sambo had sustained in this short dialogue was a forced one. He had answered almost mechanically, and not altogether without embarrassment, the few queries that were put to him.
"I say I wish to know exactly what you did last night. Answer me." Ah Tseng's face remained quite expressionless, and: "No sabby," he repeated. "Oh, I see," said the Inspector, "This witness refuses to answer at all." "You are wrong," explained Colin Camber, quietly. "Ah Tsong is a Chinaman, and his knowledge of English is very limited. He does not understand you."
I enquired. "Master no got," crooned Ah Tsong. He proceeded quietly to close the door again. "One moment," I said, "one moment. I wish, at any rate, to leave my card." Ah Tsong allowed the door to remain open, but: "No usee palaber so fashion," he said. "No feller comee here. Sabby?" "I savvy, right enough," said I, "but all the same you have got to take my card in to Mr. Camber."
'Keen sabby, as the Greasers say I'm keen on the know-how. Why, I kin tell yuh more about the money. It's fer Jack Payson " "Now, there's whur ye're way off as a cleervoyant, Buck," said Terrill triumphantly. "Yuh guessed oncet too often, as yer old pard on the Lazy K said to the druggist. 'Peruna? ast the druggist. 'Yep, said yer pard.
You lib for below off duty dis las' half hour. You see nothing, you sabby nothing. I don'-want no trouble at Boma with doctor palaver. I make it all right for you after. Sabby?" "Oh, I tumble to what you're driving at, but I was just thinking out how it works. However, you're captain of this ship, and if you choose not to log down a couple of deaths, I suppose it's your palaver.
"Do you forget so soon what happen last week?" "No sabby." "Some one comes here we do not know how close he comes; perhaps he comes in and he is of the police." Ah-Fang-Fu shuffled uneasily in his chair. "No police chop for Pidgin!" he muttered. "Same feller tumble in liver?" "He is killed yes; but suppose they find the writing he has made!
I began, as president, by asking him the reason he let the pilot quit the ship before she was clear of the shoals. Prisoner: “’Cause, massa, I had berry good opinion of myself, and I tink I sabby de ground better den dat black scorpion who call himself pilot.” President: “If you knew the channels better than the pilot, how came you to let the ship get on shore on the Turtle Head shoal?”
"Bring that copper-colored chink in here, if you'll be so good," directed Dave. Dan and Hallam departed on the quest. "You're wanted in there," proclaimed Dalzell, jerking a thumb over his shoulder. "Me no sabby," replied Chow Hop, looking up briefly from his ironing board. "Get in there do you hear?" commanded Hallam, gripping the other's arm with all his force.
"Oh yes, Massa Geral, berry bad tongue Ellen, affir he lose he husband but, poor ting, he half mad and no sabby what he say. He time to start for he gun boat, Massa Geral." The part Sambo had sustained in this short dialogue was a forced one. He had answered almost mechanically, and not altogether without embarrassment, the few queries that were put to him.
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