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Updated: June 18, 2025
"Deer Sur, i thinks it unkomon 'ard that a man shood 'ave is beed sold under im wen anuther man oas im munny, speshally wen is wifes ill praps a-dyin the Law has washt yoo sur, but it do seam 'ard on me, if yoo cood spair ony a pownd or two id taik it kind. Yoors to komand, John Timms." "This is very much to the point," said Mr Hazlit, with a faint smile, handing the letter to Aileen.
"I do, indeed, and be d d to yoo oo," I replied; "and why should I not? the visit was not volunteered, you know so come down, you long legged Yankee smuggling scoundrel, or I'll blow your bloody buccaneering craft out of the water like the peel of an onion. You see I have got the magazine scuttle up, and there are the barrels of powder, and here is the candle, so"
Omas spoke somewhat sharply to his child in the Delaware tongue. She startled, and looking at Alice, asked "Do yoo think me play well?" Alice was delighted to find she could make herself understood so easily. It was wonderful how she had learned to speak English so early in life. "I guess you can," was the ready reply of Alice; "your father can't begin to play as well.
John's mother say pleasantly to Rose's promised husband, "I asked your Chinese boy about those little week-end parties at your bungalow, Russell; I said, 'Yoo, were they pretty ladies Mr. Russ used to have over there? But he only said 'No can 'member!" "That's where his wages go up!" the gentleman had responded cheerfully.
"Com here, Ali; yoo most 'xplain de flowers me bring hom yiserday." The polite Moor at once followed the pretty Italian, leaving Ted Flaggan with her sister. "You'll excuse me, ma'am, if I bids you raither an abrup' good marnin'. It's business I have on me hands that won't kape nohow."
Rais Ali seemed troubled by the sight of him, paused, advanced, halted, and again advanced, until the tall Arab, catching sight of him, stalked forward with solemn dignity and held out his hand. "What for yoo comes here?" demanded Rais rather testily. The tall Moor slowly bent his hooded head and whispered in his ear "Faix, it's more than I rightly know mesilf."
"All right," returned Rais Ali, "yoo wash yours faces an' holds your tongue."
"Just a moment I'll return my books and then we'll go. You can replace this volume on the shelf where we got it." "Thank yoo, miss," he responded gratefully. "You're awfully kind." "Don't mention it," she laughed. In a moment she was walking by his side down the smooth marble stairs and out through the grand entrance into Fifth Avenue.
The good woman began and ended every paragraph with lamentations and longings over her darlings, and the lines between told of her 'good' and 'bad' lodgers, as she distinctly divided them, her few pleasure jaunts, and some of the gossip of the neighborhood, only a few words of which concern this little history. "You'll recklict," she wrote, "the leddy what come jest a dey or too before yoo saled?
"In fact I was just castin' about in my mind w'en you came up how I could best throw Ally Babby off the scent as to w'ere I was goin'." "Me manages dat for yoo," said Angela, with a bright significant smile, as she turned and called to the interpreter. Ali, who was rather fond of female society, at once advanced with a bow of gracious orientality.
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