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Why did not your prophetic soul enable you to see further and tell of our present state of comparative good fortune, Mr Wiseman?" asked Victor with a sigh of contentment. "I did not prophesy, Vic; I only talked of what might be." "Vat is dat you say? vat might be?" exclaimed Rollin. "Ah! vat is is vorse. Here am me, go to bed vidout my smok. Dat is most shockable state I has yet arrive to."
My God, leddy, tell me vhat I can do! He most trown himself an' freeze to death to safe me dat time an' I got sit still like a big tam fool an' him goin' under vidout a hand to pull him out. All de blood in my body, every drop, I gif to safe him. Don't you beliefe? I remember vhen de vaves and de vind pring dot canoe ashore. Ve lose not a ting because eferyting is lashed tight.
But he ain't our master any more. We can do without him." "Maybe he von't tink he can do vidout us." "He'll have to, when we get something good on the pearls. And say, I never thought you could kill any one and feel no more than I do now. Churn, if you'd been there, you'd 'a' settled his hash long before I did. The things he said to me and me your wife!
"I know so ver' leettle 'bout such kinds of peoples, señorita," she explained regretfully, her voice low, "de kind vat are good and gentle and vidout vantin' somting for eet. Eet ees not de kinds I meet vis ver' much. Dey be all alike vis me lofe, lofe, lofe, till I get seek of de vord only de one, an' I not know him ver' vell yet. Maybe he teach me vat you mean some day.
I tells you vat here, vat's your name? if you glean off dot sidewalk goot, you shall haf preakfast and dinner, much as you eat, vidout von shent to pay. I don't care if der cook is cooking all day. I like your vat you call him? shpunk." "It's a bargain," said Dennis; "and if I can make a few more like it to-day, I shall be rich." "You may vel say dot.
"Oh, you need not speak by de heavens, mein son!" rejoined the old man, in a taunting tone. "I tink I can mine own vay, vidout you to be help. I was not yesterday born!" John was gone. Flight was his usual refuge when he felt his temper becoming too much for him; but now his steps were quickened by an impulse of terrible fear.
A goot frau should help her husband out of his difficulty vidout making game of him like vat you do." From the description given by the old banker, Lucien had recognized his Esther. Much annoyed that his smile should have been observed, he took advantage of a moment when coffee was served, and the conversation became general, to vanish from the scene.
My little Jan iss dead, and Carl so sick, and all dat he must be vidout enough to eat, and my Brita vill get a dollar and a half a veek to sew alvays sew and she is pale and coughs. I pray, 'O God, you know I vill not do wrong, but vat shall I do? Show me how, for I am afraid. But it vas all dark. I cannot go home, for I haf not money. I cannot vork but one, maybe two, times a veek.
"Ay, boy, but the water has come more than twelve miles over the plains, for I know this spot well. It must be deep very deep at the Willow Creek." "Vat shall ye do vidout bot or canoe?" Rollin's question was not heeded, for at that moment two canoes were seen in the distance coming from the direction of Lake Winnipeg. One was paddled by an Indian, the other by a squaw and a boy.
"Madam," answered the gallant Winklemann, with a perplexed look, "you is vere goot, bot de gale vill be rise qvickly, an' I dares not leaf mine moder vidout protection." "Oh! but just stay for an hour or two," entreated Mrs Cockran, "and show the people how to go on with the stage. Perhaps my husband may return sooner than we expect.
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