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"Come, come," said I, "the gold of the box may be worth nine guineas, and the facon we will put at six more." "One tausend guineas!" he screeched. "One tausend and fifty pound, dere!" and he sank back in his chair no, by the way, on his bench, for he was sitting with his back to one of the partitions of the boxes, as I dare say James remembers.
'Ay, ay, sir; I am Captain Dirk Hatteraick, of the Yungfrauw Hagenslaapen, well known on this coast; I am not ashamed of my name, nor of my vessel no, nor of my cargo neither for that matter. 'I daresay you have no reason, sir. 'Tausend donner, no; I'm all in the way of fair trade.
"Miss Sieppe, Miss Sieppe, your ticket has won five thousand dollars," cried Maria. "Don't you remember the lottery ticket I sold you in Doctor McTeague's office?" "Trina!" almost screamed her mother. "Five tausend thalers! five tausend thalers! If popper were only here!" "What is it what is it?" exclaimed McTeague, rolling his eyes. "What are you going to do with it, Trina?" inquired Marcus.
Your box is not worth twenty pound, and I offer you a tausend because I know you want money to pay dat rascal Tom's college bills." Once, twice; will you take this check in exchange for your trumpery snuff-box?" What could I do? My poor granny's legacy was valuable and dear to me, but after all a thousand guineas are not to be had every day.
The little woman begged "Tausend Mal um Verzeihung," but she was "Einer Beamten-Wittwe" and had read in the paper that the young Von Kas was leaving, and both she and her daughter were in such despair that she had resolved to come to Frau von Kas, who was the only one and here she began to cry. "What does your daughter want from me?" asked Fru Kaas rather less gently.
'Why, I am told, said Glossin, 'it was Brown who shot Hazlewood? 'Not our lieutenant, I promise you; for he was laid six feet deep at Derncleugh the day before the thing happened. Tausend deyvils, man! do ye think that he could rise out of the earth to shoot another man? A light here began to break upon Glossin's confusion of ideas.
I would not believe that a woman who served us faithfully for years could be so wicked. That doubt has been my ruin. . . . How much did the eight pictures fetch?" "Vife tausend vrancs." "Good heavens! they were worth twenty times as much!" cried Pons; "the gems of the collection!
She looked up at Fru Kaas through her tears looked up as though from a rain-splashed cellar window; but Fru Kaas had reverted to her abrupt manner, and as if from an upper storey the poor little woman heard, "What does your daughter want with my son?" "Tausend Mal um Verzeihung," but it had seemed to them that her daughter might go with them to Norway, Norway was such a free country.
A rope was speedily hitched to the raft, and the men began to pull lustily for the bank. "Captain Becker," exclaimed Lieutenant von Leyden, suddenly smacking his knee, "you are two hundred thalers out of pocket. There lie the lost men now. That is Sir Arthur Ashby with the sandy beard, and the others are no doubt his companions." "Tausend donner! that is true!" cried the doctor.
She took the spindle, now charged with her labours, and, undoing the thread gradually, measured it by casting it over her elbow and bringing each loop round between her forefinger and thumb. Our hero was about to speak to the prophetess, when a voice, hoarse as the waves with which it mingled, hallooed twice, and with increasing impatience 'Meg, Meg Merrilies! Gipsy hag tausend deyvils!
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