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The young man rocked to and fro above the rifle, whose muzzle thus deflected itself from the pit of Private Copper's stomach. His face was dusky with rage. "Yess, I'm a Transvaal burgher. It took us about twenty years to find out how rotten you were. We know and you know it now. Your army it is the laughing-stock of the Continent."
You can't desert without bein' took back at once. I'm fair sick of it. 'You have been in Be England? 'W'y, I only come out last troopin' season with my mother. I should think I 'ave been in England. What a ignorant little beggar you are! You was brought up in the gutter, wasn't you? 'Oah yess. Tell me something about England. My father he came from there.
Maybe you'd like to have it," Archer added, fumbling in his pockets. Florette, smiling and crying all at once, still sat looking wonderingly from one to the other of this adventurous, ragged pair. "Those Germans ain't so smart," said Archer. The girl only shook her head and explained to her parents. Then she turned to Tom. "My father wants to know if zey are all like you in America. Yess?"
Na, na, ye will not be needing the love secret." "My motherless lass!" cried Margaret, with a droll laugh, "and is there a secret way of it?" "Yess, yess, a very goot way, mo leanabh; you will chust be scraping a little from the white of your nail and putting it in his dram, yess, and he will be yours through all the worlds. . . ." "But what," said I, "if he'll not be taking a dram?"
"It belonged to a lady I was about to return it," I said; but I fear my face showed me none too calm. He broke out in a gentle laugh. "So, then, we had here the stage setting," said he; "the pistols, the cause for pistols, sometimes, eh?" "It is nothing I could easily explain " "There iss not need, my young friend. Wass I not also young once? Yess, once wass I young."
Dass, that a man of your education cannot get better employment than this," remarked Dermot. The Bengali smiled superciliously. "Oah, yess, I can, of course. This " He checked himself suddenly, and his manner became more cringing. "Yess, sir, I can with much facility procure employment of sedentary nature.
They heard oars, but could see nothing till the cook, shining and dripping, rowed into them. "What iss happened?" said he. "You will be beaten at home." "Thet's what we want. Thet's what we're sufferin' for" said Dan. "Anything homey's good enough fer us. We've had kinder depressin' company." As the cook passed them a line, Dan told him the tale. "Yess!
"Vat 'bout dot bett you make mit me, Cabtin?" said Schenke. "Dot is all recht, no?" "Oh, yess," answered the old man, but without enthusiasm. "That stands." "Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! Tventig dollars to feefty dot you goes home quicker as me, no?" Schencke turned to the other men. "Vat you tinks, yenthelmen? Ah tinks Ah sbend der tventig dollars now so sure Ah vass." The others laughed.
"Yess, monsieur, I ran avay avay from Paris avay from France I t'ought efen of going to Amérique." "Was she so bad as all that?" asked Rushford, sympathetically. For answer, Pelletan went to the statue of Saint Geneviève, lifted it, and took from beneath it a photograph. "T'is iss she, monsieur," he said, and handed the photograph to Rushford. The latter took one look at it and passed it back.
"How d'ye do, Mr. Banneker," he added, holding out his hand. "My name is Eyre." "But yess!" cried the dancer. "He what you say it? he r-r-r-rave over Miss R-r-raleigh. He make me jealous. He shall be shoot at sunrice an' I weel console me wiz his shooter." "Charming programme!" commented the doomed man.
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