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Updated: June 3, 2025
A yell of laughter interrupted him, but he went on firmly 'And if you do carry us away, I tell you that all my regiment will come up in a day and kill you all without leaving one. Who will take my message to the Colonel Sahib? Speech in any vernacular and Wee Willie Winkie had a colloquial acquaintance with three was easy to the boy who could not yet manage his 'r's' and 'th's' aright.
He was particularly bad with his "b's," and his "th's" softened towards weak "z'ds." He called Bert explosively, "Pooterage." He began with some indistinct civilities, bowed, took a folding-table and chair from behind the door, put the former between himself and Bert, sat down on the latter, coughed drily, and opened his portfolio.
He spoke deliberate, grammatical English he despised the American rendering of the language but there was an indescribably foreign quality in his voice, a something muted; and though he aspirated his "th's" with such conscientious thoroughness, there was always the thud of a "d" in them.
Eclipsed for a while by the mighty luminaries which, during the life of Louis XIII., and the early part of Louis XIV.th's reign, were lords of the ascendant when they had sunk beneath the horizon, their constellation again blazed forth with greater force and more disastrous splendour.
And fumbling nervously in his pocket, and shaking all over, not at all like the old object of similitude, but rather like a branch of a tree driven by the wind, he thrust something into S th's hand, and rushing past him, was off on the road homewards.
"Just here; out with it," said he. "These are my friends; and if it is more money you want, you have come at an unlucky time, for I have been robbed by a villain of five pounds, which I could ill spare." Mrs. S th's heart died away within her.
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