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"That's a point o' voo," he admitted, and added guardedly, "I don't say as I agree: but I'd like to know how, comin' upon all of us so suddent, it strikes a man like you, dwellin' in these out-o'-the-way parts. My wife declares she've seen matters workin' up to it for years." "I never thought about it, one way or t'other, an' I don't want to think about it now. Who in the world wants war?
I don't know if they have tree-toads here, but I could find out which is north and south that way if they have." "Blimy, if we don't listen and see if we can 'ear 'em s'ying 'polly voo Fransay' in the trees!" said Tennert. "But a feller could never get into France that way," said Tom. "'Cause he'd have to cross the battle line.
"'Lave off your humbuggin', says he, 'I bid you, and tell me what it is you mane at all at all. "'Parly voo frongsay? says I. "'Oh, your humble sarvant, says he; 'why, by gor, you're a scholar, Paddy. "'Thruth, you may say that, says I. "'Why, you're a clever fellow, Paddy, says the captain, jeerin' like. "'You're not the first that said that, says I, 'whether you joke or no.
"You promise not to go away?" she cautioned him in the simple, first-aid French she employed in speaking to him, and pausing with both arms raised to balance the loaded clothes-basket on her head. "Wee wee!" he assured her with dignity. "Je fume mong peep! Je regard le vieux pêcher. Voo poovay allay, Mademoiselle Maryette."
"Now you danged parley voo!" cried Brace, as he gave the finishing blow, "don't lay finger on that boy again, or I'll give you just twice as much. The boy's English after all, and gets enough, without being bullied by a frog-eatin' Frenchman. So mind what I say, one and all of ye," and as he said this he scowled round upon the crowd, "don't lay a finger on him again ne'er one of you."
"So he seen I was vexed; and I thought, as I was turnin' away, I seen him begin to relint, and that his conscience throubled him; and says I, turnin' back, 'Well, I'll give you one chance more, you ould thief. Are you a Chrishthan at all? Are you a furriner, says I, that all the world calls so p'lite? Bad luck to you, do you understand your own language? Parly voo frongsay? says I.
"He's one of them priest fellows. Hi, mister!" he observed, raising his voice. Christian Vellacott woke up at once, and took in the situation without delay. He was not of those who must go through terrible contortions before regaining their senses after sleep. "Good morning, Captain!" he observed pleasantly. "Oh yourn't a parlee voo, then!" "No, I'm an Englishman." "Indeed.
But while the parley voo was still going on, up jumps a man the only man I knew there name beginning with a K don't quite remember it. At any rate, up he jumps, and says that that room was no place for me nor yet for him. Dare say you know the man, if I could remember his name. Sort of thin, dark man, with a way of carrying his head quarter-deck fashion as if he was a king or a Hooghly pilot.
Give the stomach some real food, and everything will be right directly. Take your place in the landscape, live in the body, my dear boy. And after all, what is nature? what's the use of it? Only hear the word, love what an intense, glowing sound it has! Nature what a cold, pedantic expression. Voo me compreny. Bersenyev got up and stood with his chin leaning on his clasped hands.
We'd better take 'em pris'ners!" "'Pris'ners, hell, says I, 'We'll go and clear the buggars out. So we crept along to the steps and looked down.... " The song had started again: "O Mademerselle from Armenteers, Parley voo?
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