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I vill do anyding. I vould do anyding alt te time, if I had known it," said the Jew earnestly. "Thank you, Isaacs, I only want the simple truth; more than that would do us harm instead of good. This is the simple truth, I hope, that I have taken down from your lips?" "Yesh, tat ish te zimple truth!"
The fleshy Sergeant was undoubtedly fatigued, yet he was a thorough soldier, a strict disciplinarian, and although he moved as if his coarse army trousers were constant torture, he was not guilty of omitting any known requirement of his office. "Chones", he shouted impressively, "dot is not a good vay to tie dot horse. By Chiminy, he vould break his neck mit der rope.
He went over to the bed, took one of Pons' hands in both his own, and within himself put up a fervent prayer. "What is that that you are mumbling in German?" "I asked Gott dat He vould take us poth togedders to Himself!" Schmucke answered simply when he had finished his prayer.
"Vell, the lieutenant said that I vos to play loose; and pretend not to go near you, unless I vos so fixed up that even my dear friend, the governor, vouldn't know me; and I don't think that he vould, had he seen me to-night." "But where are you stopping?" I again asked.
He insisted upon opening the door wide, and getting Bunker to address him as "Tollyvoddle," in a strident voice, "so zat zey all may hear," and then answering in a firm "Yes, Count Bonker, vat vould you say to me?" It is true that he instantly closed the door again, and even bolted it, but his display seemed to make a vast impression upon himself.
"Vy, I vould not efen ride in an outer-mobile, yet, so vy should I go in von contrivance vot is efen more dangerous? No, I gomes to your fader in der carriage, mit mine old Dobbin horse. Dot vill not drop me to der ground, or run me up a tree, yet! Vot?" "Very well," said Tom, "only hurry, please."
That 'ud shake the nonsense out of 'em, if anythin' vould. Mr. Weller, having delivered this gentle recipe with strong emphasis, eked out by a variety of nods and contortions of the eye, emptied his glass at a draught, and knocked the ashes out of his pipe, with native dignity. He was engaged in this operation, when a shrill voice was heard in the passage.
I could dig, I vould go far off, but I haf not money; but I say, 'Ven I get plenty it shall be ve go to vere earth shall gif us to eat, and not starve us as here. For soon it iss little to eat, and it iss dat ve sell clothes and such as ve must. I get vork a little on de docks.
"Here now comes de hand, at last of de time, Johan," cried the old man. "It vill be that all can vel be done now. And it is goot that he is from mine own country. He cannot English speak, many vords; but dat is nothing; he can vork. I tolt you dere vould be mans come!" John looked scrutinizingly at the newcomer. The man's eyes fell. "What is your name?" said John. "Wilhelm Rütter," he answered.
At length, Brandon entirely subduing and quelling the stubborn hypocrisy of the culprit, the man turned towards him a look between wrath and beseechingness, muttering, "Aha! if so be, Counsellor Prandon, you knew vat I knows. You vould not go for to bully I so!" "And pray, my good fellow, what is it that you know that should make me treat you as if I thought you an honest man?"
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