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'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.
Did somebody tumble over a bank of a dark night, it was Seitz that we soon heard making his way back, swearing in deep German gutterals, with frequent allusion to 'tausend teuflin. Did a shanty blow down, we ran over and pulled Seitz out of the debris, when he would exclaim: "Zo! dot vos pretty vunny now, ain't it?"
Ich gruss' dich ein tausend Mal! And here is old Peter come out to see us; and there is Franziska!" "Oh, this is Franziska, is it?" said Charlie. Yes, this was Franziska. She was a well-built, handsome girl of nineteen or twenty, with a healthy, sunburnt complexion, and dark hair plaited into two long tails, which were taken up and twisted into a knot behind. That you could see from a distance.
"TAUSEND TEIFLEN! that I should say so, and so like to be near my latter end!" ejaculated the Captain, but under his breath, "what will become of us, now they have brought musketry to encounter our archers?"
'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.
Your share of that, Peter, will buy salve and plaster for your cut. 'Ha, houndsfoot! cried the Dutchman, shaking his fist at me. 'You would strike Peter, would you? You would draw Peter's blood, would you? Tausend Teufel, man! if you and I were together upon the hillside we should see vich vas the petter man. 'Slack your jaw tackle, Pete, growled one of his comrades.
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!
A bit of ribbon caught his eye; he picked it up and put it in his pocket it was a piece of evidence that she had once existed. By the mirror some pins were dropped about; a little powder had been spilled. He looked at his own disquiet face and thought, 'I've been cheated! The shoemaker's voice aroused him. "Tausend Teufel! Eilen Sie, nur! Zeit is Geld! Kann nich' Langer warten!"
'Tausend Blitzen! cried the ruffian Dutchman, 'would it not be a kindly grass to Captain Venables to chuck the gauger down the Black Drop ere he come? He may have such another job to do for us some day. 'Zounds, man, are you in command or am I? said the leader angrily. 'Bring the prisoner forward to the fire!
'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.
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