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"Why did you not shift your canvass before we started?" said I to the Dutch captain, or mate, or whatever he might be. "Vy vont you be content to take a quiet passage and hax no question?" was the uncivil rejoinder, which I felt inclined to resent, until I remembered that we were in the hands of the Philistines, where a quarrel would have been worse than useless.
Her own days are memories, but, being French, she still lives in the romance of others. "Good evening," said Traill; "how's the business good?" "Mais, oui, Monsieur; les affaires vont assez bien." They climbed down the narrow little staircase, made narrower and almost impassable by the pots of evergreens placed for decoration upon some of the steps.
With a few rough yet dexterous movements he arranged the dark folds so as to hide her shoulders and the upper part of her body. Then he stood back a few paces. "But your green eyes! A disguise for them will be impossible. One sees them always." "Les yeux verts. Vont
He knew that I would bring all sorts of persuasions to bear upon him to get him started over to my sample room, and just about the time he thought I was going to quit he said, 'Vell, I look but I vont gif you an orter. Of course that was all I wished for.
"Or else I vos know so much der captain didn't vont nobody to know apout it," and this raised a laugh. "It's an outrage!" declared Tubbs. "An outrage! I shall request my parents to withdraw me from the institution." And he wrote a letter home that very night. But his parents refused to grant his request.
The men quickened their stroke and shot diagonally across the current of an eddy. "Ni-shi-shin," said Me-en-gan. They fell back to the old stroke, rolling out their full-throated measure. "Toutes les plumes s'en vont au vent, En roulant ma boule, Trois dames s'en vont les ramassant, Rouli roulant, ma boule roulant." The canoe was now in the smooth rush of the first stretch of swifter water.
"I vont to be put down at Sharing Cross," answered the Frenchman, humbly. "You vont to be put down at Sharing Cross," repeated the other bitterly, as he led him back to his seat. "I shall put yer down in the middle of the road if I 'ave much more of yer. You stop there till I come and sling yer out.
They were tortured by anxiety: "Les Allemands vont venir ici de Shermans come heer?" they asked. But I knew no more than they did. I told them, against my own conviction, that the German advance would be held up, but they remained anxious. The uproar of the cannonade was louder than ever. All the windows of the building shook and rattled.
Unlike some beings of a higher order, they did not take this trouble sadly; but, then, they were Southern flies. Having driven them from the table, the aged woman nodded her head with vindictive satisfaction, and murmured, 'C'est egal; elles vont bientot crever' unmindful of the fact that she, too, had reached the season of life when the frost comes suddenly and catches people unawares.
Charges d'avoin', charges de ble: Trois dam's s'en vont les marchander." And so on through many verses, with a heartiness that was a good antidote to melancholy, even though it was no specific for a shipwreck.
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