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"Dose shkvarehet shkippers vould dake a cheese-box to sea mit a cargo of le't," commented Steve. "All dey care for is de havin' de yob. De owner he don't care if de vessel sink mit de insurance." When Alex had shuffled out of the cottage, I gave the Dutchman the course of his narrative again.
So Beck's treasure, like the bird's nest, was deposited as much out of sight as his instinct could contrive; and the locks and bolts of civilized men were equally dispensed with by bird and Beck. On a rusty nail the sweep suspended the drab small-clothes, stroked them down lovingly, and murmured, "They be 's too good for I; I should like to pop 'em! But vould n't that be a shame?
His face showed a piteous, weary distress, his thin hair went twenty ways, he seemed scarcely to know where he was or how to take his steps, and presently was saying to a strange lady crowded against him, as though it was with her he had been talking all along: "Undt vhy shall we haf t'at owfool troubple? No-o, t'at vould kill me!
I vas not responsible I could not help it. You both VOULD come mit me! No, no, do not look so at me! I mean not zat I mean I could not do vizout both of you. Ach, Himmel! Vat do I say? I should say zat zat " He broke off with a start of apprehension. "Look! Zere comes a man mit a bicycle! Zis is too public! Come mit me into ze station and I shall eggsplain! He waves his fist!
The Baron was bitterly jealous. All through breakfast he never spoke a word, and when Mr Bunker asked him what train he intended to take, he replied curtly, as he went to the door, “Ze 5.30.” “And where do you go now?” “Vat is zat to you? I go for a valk. I vould be alone.” “Good-bye, then, Baron,” said Mr Bunker. “I think I shall go up to town.”
"I thought you had made it pig tight." "So did I," answered Carl. "No pig but vun mit der teufel inside him vould haf got der fence over." "Got over ther fence!" snorted Bud. "Why, yer feeble-minded son of a downtrodden race, thet thar pig couldn't hev got over ther fence without a balloon. Thet fence is six feet high. A deer couldn't jump it." "I didn't saying so. He cannot yump, dot pig.
How responsible are you financially?" "Well, we're investing seventy-five thousand dollars or so." Heinzman rubbed his thumb and forefinger together and wafted the imaginary pulverisation away. "Worth that for a judgment," said he. He allowed a pause to ensue. "If you vill give a bond for the performance of your contract," pursued Heinzman, "that vould be satisfactory."
Their arrival at the "Elephant and Castle" was a signal for a general muster of the fraternity, who, seeing the guns, were convinced that their journey was only what they call "a few miles down the road," and they were speedily surrounded by twenty or thirty of them, all with "excellent 'osses, vot vould take their honours fourteen miles an hour."
"Monsieur?" said his companion. "I say that I should like to dwell there," answered Redding. "It is a splendid country, and will be better known in days to come." "Vraiment, truly, a magnifircent kontry," returned Le Rue, "gorgeows, magnifique! I vould giv moche, ver moche, to have leetil cottage, an vife, an cow, an pigs dere."
Said Korwsky, "He tinks you vouldn't like to know him, because if de spies find it out, dey vould git after you." "I will meet any man," said Carpenter. "My business is to meet men." And so in a few minutes the terrible John Colver was escorted into the room.
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