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"Suppose the other end had been closed, and you had smothered in there, and mother had never found you?" for the ghastly possibility made my knees quake. "Oh no, mother," he pleaded, taking my face between his grimy hands and looking straight in my eyes, "it wasn't a dark hole. I could see it light out 'way at the other end, and it didn't look so vely far as it was to crawl it.
"Oh, that is nice." "Mine isn't vely well," remarked April, cheerfully. "Indeed?" "No, he has got some tummy-aches." "Dear me!" "He was coming else, and had such fine twowsers to wear pink ones with wibbons."
"Count them please, Barbara, vely quick, 'cause I can't say so many," he begged, standing with his curly head a little on one side, and his eyes flashing with eagerness. Wondering what new form of extravagance it was, I counted, "One, two, three dollars and a half."
He had an air of distinction, which not even his bare toes could altogether mar. He was evidently a person of local importance. "And what did you want me to visit your village for?" I inquired, dubiously. "White traveller sahib ill dere, sir. Vely ill; got plague. Great first-class sahib, all same like Governor. Ill, fit to die; send me out all times to try find Eulopean doctor." "Plague?"
"And who the mischief may `only me' be?" growled Drake, who had been very considerably startled, and therefore felt rather annoyed with himself. "Sh, sh! mastel," urged the voice; "you makee not so muchee shout; it vely dangelous. Thlow me lope, so I climb up; I got big piecee news for mastel." And the sound of muffled oars was again heard, this time evidently close to the ship.
Each was different from the rest. 'Still, it must have been vely clever to tell. I can hardly conceive any face, except yours and mine. 'Ah, because you are a little goose, you see. 'What was a goose like? 'It was a thing like a butterfly, only larger, and it kept its toes always spread out, with a skin stretched between. 'Leally? How caplicious!
That was a velly old Ko-Katana, a hundred yeals old. It was made by a famous altist. I have told you the meaning of the liting. That is all I know." "Why did you give your name at Ipswich as Okasaki?" demanded Brett. "Oh, that is vely easy. Okosaki is my family name. You English people say it quicker than Numaguwa Jiro, so I give it. But when I got mallied I used my light name.
The land was at first so vely, vely much more than enough for all, that the men did not take the tlouble to make an allangement among themselves; and afterwards the habit of carelessness was confirmed; till at last the vely oliginal carelessness must have got to have the look of an allangement; and so the stleam which began in a little long ended in a big long, the long glowing more and more fixed and fatal as the stleam lolled further flom the source.
'I knew vely well that something was lipening over the cellar, or under, or alound it, and would come to pass at a certain fixed hour, and that I should see it, and feel it, and it would be vely nice. 'Ah, well, you had to wait for it, at any rate. Didn't those twenty years seem long? 'No at least sometimes not often. I was always so occupied. 'Occupied in doing what?
"I have sold it again," interfered Jiro, after a hasty glance round the room, "and I am going to buy another." Mrs. Jiro rose to stir the fire unnecessarily. "They are most useful," said Brett. "Which make do you prefer?" "They are all vely much alike," answered the Japanese, "but I am going to buy a Yost or a Hammond."
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