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But they'll niver do it; for, 'ee see, they want mind an' body withoot mind is but a puir thing after a', Mrs Scholtz." "I'm not so shure of zat," put in Scholtz, stretching his huge frame and regarding it complacently; "it vould please me better to have body vidout mint, zan mint vidout body." "H'm! 'ee've reason to be pleased then," muttered Black, drily.
No man can be a 'abitchual reader huv the papers, Billy, vidout comin' to a bad hend." Mr. O'Fake drew from his pocket a copy of "The Daily Bazoo," and pointing at a certain paragraph, said: "Rade thot, Runty!" The queer little man stuck his fork under the tin plate and flipped it off the stove upon the floor, heedless of Mr. O'Fake's wishes.
Nor are Fritz' opinions those gleaned from other men or the printed page. So we fell to fanning ourselves this January afternoon on the screened and shaded veranda above the Chagres, and "Old Fritz," lighting his pipe, raised his slippered feet to the screen railing and, tossing away the charred remnant of a match, began: "Vidout var dere iss no brogress.
The heavy goods would all go round; and as for passengers and mails, you don't expect to get them, I suppose, while there is a railroad ready made to their hand?" "Ye vill carry all your ships through vidout any transportation. Think of that, my friend." "Pshaw! You are worse than Ingram.
Before the train had quite stopped, her head was such a long way out that an old German from the next window shouted to her, "If you do not take care, Miss, some fine morning you vill get up vidout your head." "I see her," said Frances, turning round to Kate, "all in grey, with a very, very large bunch of roses in her hands. Now she is talking to three big brothers.
I vill put de tea into dis canister I vill put de sugar into dat; and I vill put de cream into dis leetle jug, and den you shall see dat you shall have de excellent cup of tea vidout any vater." And, by shaking first one canister and then another, out comes some capital tea, as hot as if you had seen the kettle boiling. So does the insinuating Iago, and says "You shall see what you shall see.
"You forget the back rent that has been paid, and the work the tenant has done. What would the farm be good for without the work that has been done on it?" "Ja, ja I oonderstandst; and vhat vould der work be goot for vidout der landt on vhich it vast done?" This was rather an incautious question to put to a man as distrustful and rogueish as Joshua Brigham.
Redhand, he vill begin vid de thomb, et so on till it come to me, and I vill cot hoff mine leetle finger. Each vill devour the finger of de oder, an' so've shall have von dinner vidout committing mordor ha! vat say you?"
The man looked alarmed, and began a speech: "Sare, I cannot let dem go vidout" but a bright thought struck me, and I interrupted "Sir! don't sir me. Take off the boots, fellow, and, hark ye, when you speak to a nobleman, don't say Sir." "A hundert tousand pardons, my lort," says he: "if I had known you were a lort, I vood never have called you Sir. Vat name shall I put down in my books?"
"Ve get one big canoe upset in country close in by Gowganda," said Stefan again. "Vidout him Hugo I youst git trowned." "That wasn't anything," exclaimed Hugo, hastily. "It was one tamn pig ting for me, anyvays," declared Stefan, roaring out with contented laughter. Miss Sophy was not greatly pleased when Hugo civilly declined an invitation to have dinner with her ma and pa.
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