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The Baron, on his part, was evidently still suffering from his attack of stage fright; but again the Count's gifts smoothed the creases from the situation. "You have not introduced me to our host, Tulliwuddle," he said, with a gay, infectious confidence. "Ah, so! Zis is my friend Count Bunker gom all ze vay from Austria," responded the Baron, with no glimmer of his customary aplomb.
"I vos jus' thinking I had better be getting avay, he continued in his hoarse, gutteral voice, 'ven snick.!... I hears a key in the front door. I vos, standing by the staircase... I had no time to get out by the vay I had kom so I vent opstairs to the landing vere there vos a curtain. I shlip behind the curtain and vait!
'Dere's some off the Gristmas goots it is too late for me to use, but we'll fix op de Spring shipment som vay. "When Morris and I looked over my copy, he cut out a few items of the December 1st shipment but added to the February 1st order a great deal more than he canceled from the other one. "'Say, said Morris, 'do you know vy I reinsdadet dot orter. It vas dot letter you sent me.
"Vell," remarked Nels, with a sigh of relief as they gained the road, "Ay tank dose Roneys pelieve en Santa Claus now. Dose peen funny vay fer Santa Claus to coom." Charlie's laugh was good to hear. "He didn't exactly come down the chimney, that's a fact, but it'll do at a pinch. We ought to have told them to get a present for the dog collar and chain.
And he says like dis 'Glear oudt. 'Vat for? I say. 'Glear oudt before I shuck you oferboard. Gott-for-dam! Iss dat the vay to talk pizness? I vant sell him ein liddle case first chop grockery for trade and " "Ha, ha, ha! I don't blame Tom," interrupted the owner of a pearling schooner, who had come into the Roads for stores.
"Easy of access?" "Vot is that?" "I mean, can I and my men get at the gang without being surprised on our part?" "Vell, if I hoffers to guide you there'll be no difficulty, 'cos I knows the vay, and no mistake. But my life is to be preserved, you know. Recollect that, lieutenant." "I shall remember my word, and I will keep it in every respect.
I wish some rich enemy 'ud try to vork my destruction in that 'ere vay. I'd let him. 'Oh, I dare say you don't believe it, said the cobbler, quietly smoking his pipe. 'I wouldn't if I was you; but it's true for all that. 'How wos it? inquired Sam, half induced to believe the fact already, by the look the cobbler gave him.
Yours might be one of the first of the lot." "Vell," said the German, "is dat de vay you look at the question?" "It's a fact, isn't it?" "Yes, I s'pose it is. But I didn't tink dat vas de first ding for a man like you to tink about ven you vas talkin' about a feller dat has broke off all his bad habits and is tryin' to be yoost right." The deacon felt awkward for a moment.
She laughed, shaking her head so hard the black hair became a whirling cloud about her. "No, no! eet not de same, señor. Maybe I lofe you, maybe not yet. Dat ees vat you must fin' out. But marry? Dat no show I lofe you. Oh, de men! to tink eet vas de only vay to prove lofe to marry. No, no! maybe I show you some day eef I lofe you; si, some day I show you ven I know true.
"Now," I ordered, "pile your sabres there with mine beside the road; then hobble your horses, all but the mule; I shall want him." "Does we go der rest of der vay on foot?" questioned the Sergeant, anxiously. "Certainly; and I desire you to remember one important thing: let me do the talking, but if any of you are asked questions, we are deserters from Hills's corps, tired of the war."
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