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Vonce you got it they von't gif you dime to sleep. And dat's why I'm here to-day you've attracted Mrs. Millington's notice, and vonce you're hung in dat new ball-room dat's vere she vants you, in a big gold panel vonce you're dere, vy, you'll be like the Pianola no home gompleat without you. And I ain't going to charge you any commission on the first job!"
"He vos veigh most a don, I dink." "Why didn't you let an expressman bring it?" asked Dick. "Not much!" declared the German youth, shaking his head vigorously. "Vonce I haf a pox mid a new hat in him, und I say to a poy, carry dot und I gif you den cents. Vell he is carrying dot yet, I dink, for I ton't see dot hat no more, nefer!"
Hoffentlich, nopody vill vake him up if he iss sleeping." "But why, Mary, why should he be asleep? Is he so tired, then?" "Ach, mein lieber Gott! Do you not know? It iss Duck Town. Vonce more yet a funeral. I know from his face it is this time maybe one little schildt.
"Dere vas vonce a grade lady," he said, coming up closer to them, "who vas so good, and so lofly, and so sveet, that no vone who saw her could help lofing her; and she vas glad to help ev'y vone, and gif to ev'y vone, and she vas so rich and vise dat she could help and gif a great deal. "And dere vas a poor boy who vas stupid and homely and poor, and he did nodings for any vone.
"Hey, you, Jim Tapp," observed Snitzellbaum, "you vas a pal of Daley, hey? You see him? Vell, you tell him ve hang him up by dose heels, und Murdock mit him, vonce ve catch dem. See you?" Tapp disappeared over the edge of the wagon into the road. "Mein friend," remarked the musician to Andy, "you vatch oud for dot poy." Andy Wildwood recalled the solemn warning before the next day was over.
At Doddridge Knapp's suggestion I arranged to do my business through three brokers, and added Lattimer and Hobart to Wallbridge, and Bockstein and Eppner. Bockstein greeted me affably: "Velgome to de marget vonce more, Mr. , Mr. "Wilton," said Eppner, assisting his partner in his high, dry voice, with cold civility.
You know veil zat I vill die if need be for zee Rajah. Ve must all die vonce, at least, and I should like to die if I must die in a goot cause. What cause better zan frondship? But you say joost now zere is no dancher. Vell, I vill go ant see zee booterflies to-morrow. After zat, I will go ant die if it must be vith zee Rajah."
"We had an offer this very morning for all three of the animals by the American stage company." "Vas the hoffer a good one?" asked Steel Spring, in a low voice. "Yes; all that the animals are worth." "Then do you go at vonce and get the tin, and tell the coveys that you vant them taken off now this werry evening. The commissioner von't interfere vid the stage company. He knows better."
He had no ascertainable eyebrows, or eyelashes, or hair, and this, with his bright, fresh complexion and his big spectacles, gave him a very unworldly appearance. "Oh, Miss Slobham," he said, "I haf been so much mofed wid de story of dis poor Indian! He iss a shild of nature. He hass been so quiet, and so goot and so sad! I haf talked to him by de hour, and he hass not interroopted me vonce.
"Ve air not abord du San Miguel; no von see, no von hear. I know in my heart you loaf me; tell me so vonce! Blanca!" The music and entreaty in the deep voice thrill me strangely. "Oh, Blanca darling, keess me!" My puny resistance is nothing to those athlete's arms; he holds me close one instant and I, breathless, struggle to free my hands, and push his hot cheek away from mine.
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