shpout

Updated: May 17, 2025

Here are we without any money, and I have been out to get some." "Vere?" asked Schmucke. "Of my uncle." "Onkel?" "Up the spout." "Shpout?" "Oh! the dear man! how simple he is? No, you are a saint, a love, an archbishop of innocence, a man that ought to be stuffed, as the old actor said.

Honoré de Balzac - Cousin Pons

Here are we without any money, and I have been out to get some." "Vere?" asked Schmucke. "Of my uncle." "Onkel?" "Up the spout." "Shpout?" "Oh! the dear man! how simple he is? No, you are a saint, a love, an archbishop of innocence, a man that ought to be stuffed, as the old actor said.

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