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I tells you vot, if you keeps jawing there, atween me and she, I shall vop you, Joe, cos vy? I be's the biggest!" was the answer of Beck the sweeper to Joe the ragamuffin. The jovial Joe laughed aloud, snapped his fingers, threw up his ragged cap with a shout for King Bill, and set off scampering and whooping to join those festivities which Beck had so churlishly disdained.
It took a lot to get those two awake at six o'clock in the morning, you may be sure; but there they were, very much worried. "Vot does he say?" cried the magnate. "He won't say what he is going to do." "He von't promise to stay?" "He won't promise anything." "Veil, did you lock de door?" I answered that I had, and then Maw put in, in a hurry: "Billy, you gotta stay here and take care of him!
All talking ceased, and every one stood up and looked toward the point of interest. Several went forward to meet the captives, and the general grin that lighted up the aboriginal countenances seemed to shed a mild sort of sunlight among and under the trees. "It's no use," said Jack to his friend; "we can't get away until they are ready to let us go." "Vot does they mean to do mit us?"
Shall I tell you, my dear, that when Francois woke me at a very early hour on this eventful morning, while the keen stars were still glittering overhead, a half-moon, as sharp as a razor, beaming in the frosty sky, and a wicked north wind blowing, that blew the blood out of one's fingers and froze your leg as you put it out of bed; shall I tell you, my dear, that when Francois called me, and said, "V'la vot' cafe, Monsieur Titemasse, buvez-le, tiens, il est tout chaud," I felt myself, after imbibing the hot breakfast, so comfortable under three blankets and a mackintosh, that for at least a quarter of an hour no man in Europe could say whether Titmarsh would or would not be present at the burial of the Emperor Napoleon.
While the others were laughing at the plight of the German, he made an effort to arise and the machine promptly slid down an incline and sparked and gyrated until Hans' hair fairly stood on end with fright. "Catch heem!" he shouted. "Catch heem! He runs py the road avay! Dunner! Vot a streets!" "You mustn't tickle his ribs with your heels when you get on," advised Jimmie.
"Misther Fugger," he cried, "you're shust the man I want to see. My Gott, vot is to become of us all? Vot is to become of de diamond trade ven one can pick them up like cockles on the sea shore?" "We must wait for details," the great financier said phlegmatically. His fortune was so enormous that it mattered little to him whether the report was true or false. "Details!
"Yes it is!" cried he. "Vell, den, perhaps vot you pay?" "I I how much do you want?" Jurgis stammered. "Tventy-five dollars." His face fell. "I can't pay that," he said. The woman was watching him narrowly. "How much do you pay?" she demanded. "Must I pay now right away?" "Yes; all my customers do." "I I haven't much money," Jurgis began in an agony of dread.
And when they said he would be shot, he answered again, "Vell, vot of it?" And when Jake Dolan cried, "You pot-gutted Dutchman, sit down or there'll be a sauer-kraut shower in hell pretty quick," Henry shook his fat sides a moment and laughed, "Vell, vot of dot altzo!"
Is there anything to get ready?" "But vot der hell," cried the fat man again. She turned on him. "Fool! fool! Will you shout and curse all night, till the algemas are on you?" "Yes; an' you put dem on us," the tall man interrupted. She turned swiftly on him, poising her small head over her bare breasts with a superb scorn. "Why do you lie?" she demanded hotly. "Why do you lie?
"In the name of the Lord, what am I indebted to you for?" demanded Jerome, now entirely out of patience, turning to the last of the trio. "I told yer vership vot time it vas, this morning." "Well!" exclaimed the indignant man, "ask here what o'clock it is, and you have got to pay for it."
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