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"Be the old kind jackass you vash!" here roared a voice that made Mr. Eglantine start. "Vy, vat an old fat fool you are, Eglantine, to give up our just debts because a voman comes snivelling and crying to you and such a voman, too!" exclaimed Mr. Mossrose, for his was the voice. "Such a woman, sir?" cried the senior partner.
"Well, perhaps not; but she will ruin me if she can." "Vat vash her name?" said Lazarus. "Moggy Salisbury." "Paah! is dat all? vy, my good friend, she is one of us. Dere, you may go vay you may go to bed, Mr Vanslyperken." "What do you mean?" "I mean dat she laughed at you, and frighten you dat she is one of us, and so is her husband, who was in your chip.
Den she take heem hees head in her hands und she asket heem vat for is it dat blud he got it on hees head, und so he say it is by fightin' he is got it, und she say vy for is he fightin', und he say mit hees cousin he fight, und hees cousin he hit heem so, und she asket heem vy for is hees cousin hit heem, und vy for iss he fightin' mit hees cousin any vay, und den dey bot is cryin'. So I seen dot und den she go by der kitchen und bring vater und vash heem hees head und tie clots round it so nice, und dere dey is talkin', und he tol' her he done it."
"If I were to attack an elk," said the adder, "he would instantly kill me. Old Harmless is dead and gone, and we can't bring her back to life, so why should I rush into danger on her account?" When the water-snake got this reply he raised his head a whole foot from the ground, and hissed furiously: "Vish vash! Vish vash!" he said.
Master Major," replied the descendant of Abraham, a little puny creature, bent double with infirmity, and carrying one hand behind his back, as if to counterbalance the projection of his head and shoulders. "You vash please to call me Shent per Shent. I wish I vash able to make de monies pay that. Mr Newland, can I be of any little shervice to you?" "Sit down, sit down, Emmanuel.
He jumped up immediately, and took his hat to execute the commission, the injunction of the widow to be soon back hastening his departure. Vanslyperken soon arrived at the door, knocked, and was admitted. "Vat vash you vant, sare?" said a venerable-looking old Jew, who opened the door to him. "Is your name Lazarus?" inquired the lieutenant. "Dat vash my name." "I have a letter for you."
'May be so; but at all events she was as like as two peas to the girl whose weddin' I was at since I came ashore. "Ma'am," sez I, "I want to larn to be a washerwoman:" and wid that I took off my neckerchief an' rubbed it, to show what I meant, by the rule of thumb. "Ah, to vash," sez she, smilin' like a leathercoat potato.
"Well, perhaps not; but she will ruin me if she can." "Vat vash her name?" said Lazarus. "Moggy Salisbury." "Paah! is dat all? vy, my good friend, she is one of us. Dere, you may go vay you may go to bed, Mr Vanslyperken." "What do you mean?" "I mean dat she laughed at you, and frighten you dat she is one of us, and so is her husband, who vas in your chip.
"Mishter Newland ah, Mish-ter New-land, cannot you give me my monish cannot you give me de tousand pound, without de interest? you are very welcome to de interest. I only lend it to oblige you." "How can you expect a d d rascal to do any such thing?" replied I. "D d rascal! Ah! it vash I who vash a rascal, and vash a fool to say the word.
"He said, my dear friend, that he missed from the paintings which he had taken to his house the most precious of them all the picture of your dear grandmother, by a man whose name it is hard to pronounce, but a Captain in the British Army, very much fond of beloving and painting all the most beautiful ladies; and since he had painted the mother of Vash Vash the man that conquered England in America all his work was gone up to a wonderful price, and old Sheray should have one guinea if he would exhibit to him where to find it.
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