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Updated: June 16, 2025
De superintendent told me so ven he vas in here last veek buying Christmas presents. I sold him dat old chair you got Hans to put a new leg on. You remember dot chair. Vell, dat vas better as a new von vhen Hans got trough. Hadn't been for you, dot old chair vould be kicking around now, and I vouldn't have de fifteen dollars he paid me for it.
But when she knew who they were and Maria identified them immediately the good lady lumbered to the side door of the store herself, and opened it wide to welcome Ruth and Agnes, with their boy friend. "Coom in! Coom in by mine fire," she cried. "Ach! der poor kinder oudt in dis vedder yedt. Idt iss your deaths mit cold you vould catch no?"
"Mademoiselle could not expect zat." "Heartless!" muttered Christine. Then she said: "Won't you go for Susie Winthrop? Oh, how I would like to see her now!" "She vould not come; no von vould come who knew." Christine wrung her hands and cried, "Oh, I shall die alone and deserted of all!" "No, you shall not," said her father, entering at that moment; "so do not give way, my dear.
All dat fine machinery, all dem copper plates, all the vater-pipe, the vindows and doors they tore down everything and hauled it down to Moroni, vere they sold it for nothing to Murray! "Do you know vot I would do if I owned dat mine?" demanded the Professor with rising wrath. "I vould organize a company and pump oudt the vater and make myself a millionaire.
He put out his candle in the gray dusk, took a last look at the old house, stole softly along the passage, and opened the street door; but in spite of his caution, he awakened Kolb, who slept on a mattress on the workshop floor. "Who goes there?" cried Kolb. "It is I, Lucien; I am going away, Kolb." "You vould haf done better gif you at nefer kom," Kolb muttered audibly.
But ven I got done, dey vouldn't be nobody to make pictures, and somebody vould have to feed old Abey or maybe me and Maw could go back to carryin' pants in a push cart! If you tink I vouldn't like to see all de hungry fed, you got me wrong, Mr. Carpenter; but vot I learned is dis if you stop fer all de misery you see in de vorld about you, you vouldn't git novhere."
"Vel, he say he lofe me he say eet straight, like eet vas vat he meant." "Oh!" "Si, señorita; he not even talk funny, maybe he so excited he forgot how, hey? An' vat you tink dat he say den to Mercedes vat?" The other shook her head, undecided, hesitating as to her own purpose. "He ask me vould I marry him.
I get myself straight on this var, don't you ferget it." "You believe in the war?" "Sure I believe in it, you bet your money!" Comrade Stankewitz, as he spoke, pounded with an excited fist on the counter. "Ve got to vin this var, see? Ve got to beat them Yunkers! I vould have made up my mind to that, even if I don't go in the army I vould have make it up ven I see vat they do vit Russia."
"Follow up the trail as fast as we can," said Victor promptly. "Dat is bon advise," observed Rollin. "Hand over de duck, Peegvish, an' do try for shut your eyes. If you vould only vink it vould seem more comfortabler." Peegwish did not smile, but with deepened gravity passed the duck. "I'm not so sure of the goodness of the advice," said Ian.
His artful eloquence seemed to impress his friend, for he smiled thoughtfully and did not reply at once. More persuasively than ever the Baron continued "I do believe mit patience and mit er mit kindness, Bonker, I might persuade Miss Gallosh to listen to ze proposal of Tollyvoddle. And vould it not be better far to get him a lady of his own people, and not a stranger from America?
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