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Oscar, flattered by the compliment and the unusual attention, picked up his hat. "Ay ban good powder man. Ay tenk Ay start him now when Ay gat some powder," said he. He smiled at them serenely. "Mebbe if t'ree, four you faller come by me you svear Ay ban home all night?" he suggested ingenuously. But there was an objection to the immediate execution of the plan.
Have you done anything, you stupid old Dutchman," cried Brown, collaring his partner with abrupt violence, "that would drive her out of the camp without a word?" "I svear, Prowny," the other gasped, as soon as he had breath for swearing, "I haf been so polite to her as my own mudder." The younger man sat down again, dropping lax hands across his knees.
"But Freda got a fader, a goot man, too goot and kind; he say he vunt haf his dochter look down on like she don't got no friends. He go and mortgage his farm, und he got drie tree hunterd dollar" she tapped the sum off her palm with solemn deliberation "und he svear he vill in der votin' all, all spend, an' sie git dot vatch. Ach Himmel! er ist verruckt!
"Vell, you said yourself you seen him, didn't you?" replied the German. "An' you svore to it. I didn't svear to noddings." "Aw, you!" roared the enraged cop, and hastened to interview Mr. Asche. Aping a broad humanitarianism he suggested to Asche that if Mrs. Mathusek would pay for the window they could afford to let up on the boy.
I do not see how it can accomplish all you claim, but if you think it's an experiment full of possibilities in the interests of science " "Interest of humbug!" snapped Prof. Darmstetter, his own sarcastic self again. "You consent because you vant to be beautiful. You care not'ing for science. I can trust you vit' my secret. You need svear no oat's not to reveal it.
'I'd svear to you anyveres, Sir, replied Sam cheerfully. 'Don't be impertinent to a gentleman, Sir, said Mr. Smangle. 'Not on no account, replied Sam. 'If you'll tell me wen he wakes, I'll be upon the wery best extra-super behaviour! This observation, having a remote tendency to imply that Mr. Smangle was no gentleman, kindled his ire. 'Mivins! said Mr. Smangle, with a passionate air.
Dat I believe. But not in Europe. Ve Europeans are all tam fools. But I vill not svear! no! you onderstand, Fenwick; you haf never heard me svear? And then a round oath, smothered in a hasty fit of coughing.
He demanded pencil and paper, and with them he scribbled a message. "Send for me zat note!" he said. Corinne! La belle Corinne! Chérie amie, vot I haf svear I lofe and cherish! I haf not remember you, Corinne!"
I interrupted. "How would I look? Would it change me totally? Would I really be the most beautiful? I stopped, blushing at my own eagerness. "Absolutely; I svear it. T'e most perfectly beautiful voman in t'e vorld. Mein Gott, yes. How not? Never vas t'ere yet a perfectly beautiful voman. Not von. All have defects; none fulfills t'e ideal. You? You vill look like yourself. I do not miracles.
It is educated, led in t'e right vay. Tradition vaits for years to ripen vine and make it perfect. Science finds t'e bacillus of t'e perfect vine and puts it in t'e cask of fresh grape juice, and soon t'e vine drinkers of t'e vorld svear it is t'e rare old vintage. T'e bacillus, inconceivably tiny, svarming vit' life, reproducing itself a billion from one, t'at is Nature's tool.
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