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I want everything you've got to eat, and everything you haven't got, and don't you tell me there's 'vellee lil' either, or I'll break every bone in your body. And be quick about it too!" Jim hurried into the kitchen with so much of a departure from his oriental poise that the first pan he picked up fell to the floor with a clatter.
After he closes the dampers he will say to me in his most amiable squeak, "Me flixee him he vellee glood now." This is all very nice as long as the house does not burn. Night before last Mrs. Mills invited me to a family dinner. Colonel Mills was away, but Mr. Hughes was there, also Lieutenant Harvey to whom Miss Mills is engaged, and the three Mills boys, making a nice little party.
He saw my look of surprise and said again, "Me go 'way Missee Bulk's Chinee-man tellee me go 'way." I said, "But, Charlie, Lee has no right to tell you to go; I want you to stay." He hesitated one second, then said in the most mournful of voices, "Yes, me know, me feel vellee blad, but Lee, he tellee me go he no likee mason-man."
If come after, plenty muchee pilate fliend, and junk not vellee far." "He's right, Herrick," said Mr Brooke, nodding. "Turn up the side branch, my lads. Keep up the comedy of the shooting, and have a shot at something." "But there's nothing to shoot at, sir," I said, feeling rather doubtful of the accuracy of Ching's ideas.
He stopped and sat suddenly erect. "Jim!" he cried. "Do you remember the night we took old Kwang's girl away from the river rats in Tien-Tsin?" "Vellee well," answered the Chinaman. His face was expressionless; he concealed the joy that this mood of his master aroused in his thin breast.
Colin Camber rose again, and fixing his melancholy eyes upon the newcomer: "Ah Tsong," he said in a tone of cold anger, "what are you doing here?" Quite unmoved the Chinaman replied: "Blingee you chit, sir, vellee soon go back." "What do you mean?" demanded Mr. Camber. "Answer me, Ah Tsong: who sent you?"
Chinamen are awful cowards, and with the first word I said to the soldier, Hang had shuffled to his own room, and there he had remained until he heard Volmer go out of the house. Then he came back, and looking at me with an expression of the most solemn pity, said, "He vellee blad man he killee man he killee you, meb-bee!" The poor little heathen was evidently greatly disturbed, and so was I, too.
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