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"Bud zere's no one else for you do blay wiz," said the baron in English. "I want to blay wiz childrens," said the pupil. The baron drew his heels together and became, though still pear-like, splendidly rigid. His eyes flashed with haughty, but a trifle vicarious pride, as he said: "Zere are no children for your 'ighness do blay wiz 'ere. Zese are nod 'igh and well-born ones."
"One cannot tell wiz ze Americans," Frenchy explained. "Zey grow so queeck so beeg. In Europe, zey haf' nevaire seen anyzing like zis zis army," he added, indicating with a sweeping wave of his hand the groups of lolling, joking soldiers. "They make fun of you a lot, don't they?" "Ah, zat I do not mind." "Maybe that's why they all like you."
And without further ado, Bryce strode to meet his man. "Are you Jules Rondeau?" he demanded as he came up to the woods-boss. The latter nodded. "I'm Bryce Cardigan," his interrogator announced, "and I'm here to thrash you for chopping that big redwood tree over in that little valley where my mother is buried." "Oh!" Rondeau smiled. "Wiz pleasure, M'sieur."
"Nonsense!" cried several of the piglets, together. "You can ask Dorothy," said the little man, in an injured tone. "It's true enough," returned the girl, earnestly. "Our friend Oz is merely a humbug wizard, for he once proved it to me. He can do several very wonderful things if he knows how. But he can't wiz a single thing if he hasn't the tools and machinery to work with."
The dead face of the bearded man in the rear room rose before me. But Broussard went on. "Zen you came, M'sieur, 'long wiz ze girl. Ze Capitaine he laugh, eet was so easy. Why ze girl, M'sieur?" "Philip Henley was married." "Non, non, impossible; eet cannot be shown. 'T is not of ze record. Ze Capitaine not 'fraid any more; he just play wiz you like ze cat wiz ze mouse.
Though the stranger looked puzzled at first, his face rapidly broke into a cordial smile. "Oh, ah! I understand. You mek what is call ze American joke, eh? You have little fun wiz me." The Frenchman, for that he unmistakably was, laughed in the utmost good humor. The boys found themselves much inclined to like this stranger.
But, no! it can never be explained. Some do call me mad. I know it; I am laughed at. Oh! do I not know zat? Perfectly well. My ancestors adored Goddesses. I discover ze voice of a Goddess: I adore it. So you call me mad; it is to me what you call me juste ze same. I am possessed wiz passion for her voice. So it will be till I go to ashes. It is to me ze one zsing divine in a pig, a porpoise world.
I speak not often of my money; but I say it is in your ear a man of millions, he is a king!" The Greek jumped up and folded a couple of notes. "I will not have her disturbed. Let her sing now and awhile to Pericles and his public: and to ze Londoners, wiz your permission, Count Ammiani, one saison. I ask no more, and I am satisfied, and I endow your oldest child, signor Conte it is said!
I fear" she concluded with a bewitching affectation of sadness "they prefer that to talkin' wiz me." "You know that couldn't be so, Comtesse," he said. "I would rather talk to you than than " "Ah, yes, you say so, Monsieur!"
Miss O. she is popular wiz ze young men, yes. "And now, Tom," continued the magician, "how many special lady friend have Mr. And how many young lady are in ze choir? Twenty-two! "Ah! A strange coincidence," observed the learned professor amid much merriment.
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