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"The betting is three to one against him now," said a gentleman, whose grizzled moustache showed that he was an officer of the late war. "Very true, General Fitzpatrick. But you'll observe that it is the raw young bloods who are giving the odds, and the Sheenies who are taking them. I still stick to my opinion."
They thought I could, too, those black and white shadows out there on the other side of the velvet curtains. But I cared less for what they thought than for the fact that I had drowned that sputtering hiss-ss-ss inside of me, and that Latimer was among them. I gave them Warfield, then; I was always good at taking off the sheenies in the alley behind the Cruelty remember?
"Any news!" he asked confidentially, leaning forward and dropping his husky voice. This meant, generally, had he heard of anything likely to change the chances of next day's race. "Ur who 's goin' to win the steep'!" Robin looked wiser. "Well the' may be some surprises tomorrow. You keep your eyes open. Dese heah Yankee hosses don' always have dey own way " "I try to, but thim sheenies!
People sobbed and wept and laughed and cheered; and Roman Catholic Italians and Russian Jews, who had before sneered at each other as "dagoes" and "sheenies," seized each other in their arms and called each other brother.
"Well, good-by. It was my missus who said that the girl would throw you over on account of that book." "Ah! Good-by." "Honestly speaking, George, old man, I think you've made a mistake this time. People don't mind much about Jacob and Jonah and Jeremiah and the whole job lot of Sheenies; but they do mind about Ruth. Hang it all man! she was a woman." "Ah! so was Jezebel, and yet ah! good-by.
Let us destroy with bombs and daggers the capitalists, landed proprietors, and the bureaucracy! She'll warmly agree with me. But to-morrow the hanger-on Nozdrunov will yell that it's necessary to string up all the socialists, to beat up all the students and massacre all the sheenies, who partake of communion in Christian blood. And she'll gleefully agree with him as well.
"No, we had no elephants," Teacher was forced to admit. "But we had a turtle and a monkey." "Did your papa have a organ?" asked Sadie Gonorowsky. "Organs mit monkeys is stylish for mans." "Think shame how you says!" cried her cousin Eva reproachfully. "Teacher ain't no Ginney. Organs ain't for Sheenies. They ain't for Krishts even. They all, all for Ginneys."
So now we begin we stop all our fighting we take out this boat all our comrades on board! No coons, no niggers, no sheenies, no wops! Fellow workers I tell you the name of our boat! The Internationale!" The little man's speech was greeted with a sudden roar of applause. For the crowd had seen at once this danger of race hatred and was eager to put it down.
If God grant it, we shall still eat a piece of bread and a little butter and on the Sabbaths the tasty GEFILTEH FISCH." "That's fine fish: pike the way the sheenies make it!" said the gasping land-owner. "We shall open up for ourselves the firm of 'Horizon and Son. Isn't that true, Sarochka 'and Son? And you, I hope, will honour me with your esteemed orders?
I don't know what I've done to deserve two Sheenies for children. That made Rosalind giggle, and eased the acrimony of the discussion. My mother was a little fair woman, sharp-tongued and quick-tempered, but with a sense of fun. My father had no sense of fun. I think it had been crushed out of him in his cradle. I am supposed to look like him, I believe.
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