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Steele succumbs to one of her old headaches on our return to the steamer, and I pass the greater part of the day in seclusion with her. After luncheon, as I linger to superintend the arrangements of the invalid's tea-tray, the Baron joins me. "I am vairy sorry about Madame Steele's headache. Tell me, please, vhat can I do?" "Nothing, thank you," I say; "there is no remedy.
"Veil, you don't seem likes von silly girl, und I vill dry you; put you moost pe very schteady und batient, und but down shust vhat I say. Von leedle schlip, und I vas all vrong in mine vigures. Von preadth off hair down here ish oh so vide oop dere.
I stood ready to spring the instant he should stir to advance. I realized almost unbearably my position, stealing thus at such a moment on the heels of my neighbor and friend, but this is not a story of feelings, at any rate, not of mine. "Vhat?" said the entomologist. "Go avay? Mien Gott! No, I vill not ko avay. Mien gloryform! Gif me first mine gloryform!
A tall stout woman waddled towards her, smiling all over and bidding her a good-day. She helped remove the now superfluous things. "De yoong leddy she come all de vay from Nev York, vhat is a real hot country, I expect," explained Stefan, placidly and inaccurately. "Sit down, leddy, an haf sometings to eat. You needs plenty grub, good an' hot, in dem cold days. Ve sit down now.
"Of having to pay rent at all; they think the landlords ought to be made to sell their farms, or give them away. Some stand out for the last." "But der landlordts don't vant to sell deir farms; und dey might not be made to sell vhat ist deir own, and vhat dey don't vant to sell, any more dan der tenants might be made to sell deir hogs and deir sheep, vhen dey don't vant to sell dem."
The great clumsy fish are floundering about us in schools. "Vhat heafen eyes you haf, Señorita!" "I do believe that's 'San José Joe." I run to the rail. "You know! the huge old shark all covered with barnacles the seamen tell about." "You vill nefer listen," says the Peruvian, plunging his hands far down in his yachtsman's jacket. "I dthink, Señorita, ven you die, and St.
You hadn't made your appearance then, and naturally I couldn't do much. But now now if you vill give me de pleesure " "Then an agent is one who can do nothing for you when you want help, but when you don't want it " The man laughed to carry off his audacity. "Veil, you know vhat they say of us agent from agere,'to do, and we're always 'doing. Ha, ha!
"Dat ist ferry easy; 'down rent, eh?" "Sartain Jarman, eh? you no spy? you no sent here by gubbernor, eh? landlord no pay you, eh?" "Vhat might I spy? Dere ist nothin' do spy, but mans vid calico faces. Vhy been you afraid of der governor? I dinks der governors be ferry goot frients of der anti-rents." "Not when we act this way. Send horse, send foot a'ter us, den.
I s'pose I shall get my turn at the town offices, and other chances, and, givin' me my rights in them, I'll take up with almost any farm young Littlepage has, though I should rather have one in the main valley here, than one more out of the way; still, I don't set myself down as at all partic'lar." "Und vhat do you expect to bay Mr. Littlepage for der farm, ast you might choose?"
To-morrow we are to have a great anti-rent lecturer out " "A vhat?" "A lecturer; one that lectur's, you understand, on anti-rentism, temperance, aristocracy, government, or any other grievance that may happen to be uppermost. Have you no lecturers in Jarmany?" "Ja, ja; dere ist lecturers in das universities blenty of dem." "Well, we have 'em universal and partic'lar, as we happen to want 'em.
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