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This was too much for Hardy for any man with a spark of manhood left in him. "I am not!" he denied. "I'm a business man." "You are a loan fish," the bandit pressed. "A what?" "A loan fish! You loan money. And when ze people cannot pay, you convict zem and take zeir ranchos." The lean, sharklike Hardy looked a little depressed at this accusation.
There was a great trampling of horses' hoofs, accompanied by the frantic shouts of the count. "I cannot hold zem! Mon Dieu! Zey are mad! Ho! Ho! Help!" He was in truth having a monstrous unpleasant time. His two friends stumbled to his assistance, but not in time to prevent the catastrophe.
He made a fine bow, and he said he was 'pleased too see ze fine audience, and he was going to show zem ze fine animals, ze finest animals in ze world. Then he shook a little whip that he carried in his hand, and he said 'zat zat whip didn't mean zat he was cruel.
Then, "But how are you going to do this miracle?" Gilbert was anxious to find out. "Zat is for you to leave to me. Well, what you say?" "I say yes, of course!" "Bueno! We begin," said the bandit. He called through the door: "Pedro! Bring zem all in again." Uncle Henry was curious, "What are you going to do?" "You shall see," was all Lopez answered. Angela was the first to file into the room.
“Zey vill not take you ven you tell zem! I shall insist viz Sir Richard!” “The law is the law, Baron, and I’m a certified lunatic. Here we must part till the weather clears; and mind, you mustn’t say a word about my coming to see you.” The Baron looked at him disconsolately. “You most really go, Bonker?” “Really, Baron.” “And vere to?” “To London town again by the milk train.”
It must be a long time since you saw your people." "Saw! Even I haf' not heard for t'ree year. Eight years ago I fled away. Even before America is in ze war I haf' no letters. Ze Zhermans tear zem up! Ah, no matter. When it is all over and ze boundary line is back at ze Rhine again zen I will see zem. My pappa, my moother, my seester Florette " His eyes glistened and he paused.
When we're ready to leave this hole, there won't be a shred of evidence left. Have you heard any news from our man in Washington? What are the secret service men doing?" "Ze alarm is given. Zey have spotted several of ze bills. Half a dozen of ze cleverest sleuths in ze country have been put on our trail. Zey will not succeed. Ze scent is cold. We've got zem completely doped."
With a very bad grace it hobbled off to the Durian tree, ascended it with a sort of lazy, lumbering facility, and hurled down some of the fruit without warning those below to look out. "My little frond is obstinate sometimes," remarked the naturalist, picking up the fruit, "but ven I bring my glasses to bear on him he always gives in, I never found zem fail.
He cracked it to show his animals when to begin, end, or change their tricks. Some boy yelled, 'Rats! you do whip them sometimes, and the old man made another bow, and said, 'Sairteenly, he whipped zem just as ze mammas whip ze naughty boys, to make zem keep still when zey was noisy or stubborn.
Only these hasty observations, and no more, the Legionaries made as they fell with furious energy to the task of dislodging the venerable relic. To all but this labor they were oblivious to the heat and stifle of that sun-baked square, the mute staring of the paralyzed Hujjaj, the wafting languor of incenses from the colonnades, the quiet murmur of waters from the holy well, Zem Zem.
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