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The skipper of the Gemini notices the action, and grins sarcastically, while he tells a subordinate in a stage-whisper to "just look at them new-chums." English readers must not suppose from this that colonial manners are discourteous. Far from it. Colonials will not touch their hats, or use any form that appears to remind them of servility, flunkeyism, or inequalities of station.
But Madeleine had hardly closed the door behind them, when, like a whirlwind, Krafft burst into the room again. "Mada, I forgot to ask you something," he said in a stage-whisper, drawing her aside. "Tell me you KUPPLERIN, you! does he know her?" He pointed over his shoulder with his thumb at Maurice. Madeleine shook her head, in real vexation and distress, and laid a finger on her lip.
"As a matteh of fawm tempora'ily du'ing my ill health," said the Carlsbad pilgrim, adding, in an unfragrant stage-whisper, that there was a secret off-setting sale of both stocks back again, the papers of which were in Mrs. Proudfit's custody. Mrs. Proudfit was not with her husband; she was at home, in Blackland.
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