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Updated: June 26, 2025
As his eyes became a little accustomed to the reflections in the weed, Colin was able to see ghostlike brown forms that seemed to slide rather than swim through the water. "Do they swim backwards?" he asked in surprise. "Always, I t'ink," said the boatman. "Zey take in water at ze gills and zey shoot it out from a pipe near ze mout', an' zat way zey push zemselves along tail first.
Indeed, the thought of Alicia and of Alicia's parent was alone enough to keep his head bowed down. "Ach, zey most not know," he muttered. "I shall give moch money hondreds of pound not to let zem find out. Oh, what for fool have I been!"
Now you are so clevaire Yankee clevaire, ha, ha, ha!" he laughed with a kind of irritating hilarity; "why should zey make ziss road? From ze north from Leteur all around zey bring our women to make ziss road. Ziss is where Mam'selle is so! Close by it lives my comrade, Blondel. Ziss is noble army to command, ugh!" He gritted his teeth. "All are women!"
"Zey have found a man, who says a sailor on some island near here, wore a cap with ze name of your mozer's steamer," put in Inez, who, with the quickness of her race, had gathered those important facts. "Oh!" gasped Bess. "Don't build too much on it," interposed Jack. "It may be only a sailor's yarn." "It's all true, what I'm tellin' you, boss!" exclaimed the negro.
Paricles," she tried to say and think; but the very naming of poverty had given her shivers. She told him how she had come to him because of Mr. Pole's reproach, which accused her of causing the rupture. Mr. Pericles twisted the waxy points of his moustache. "I shall advise you, go home," he said; "go to a lawyer: say, 'I will see my affairs, how zey stand. Ze man will find Pole is ruined.
I make ze lace in New York, but it so big a city and so many lace sellers not of my country. It is hard for me to make even a pittance. Some of my friends, zey say to go out in ze country. So I go. But I weary you yes?" and with a quick, bird-like glance she asked the question. "Oh, no, indeed!" answered Cora.
"You don't understand what has occurred while you were fastened up here. You know Mr. Henry R. Hunter?" "Yes, yes. I know heem." "Well, he was stabbed while alighting from an automobile outside this hotel shortly before eight o'clock, and I imagine he was coming to see you." "Stabbed! Did zey keel heem?" "Yes. Now, tell me who 'they' were."
'German mountain-climbers wif nails in zer shoes. Zey have gone to Riva on ze first boat. 'That's too bad then the hotel is empty? 'But no! Zer is an Italian signora wif two babies and a governess, and two English ladies and an American gentleman 'An American gentleman? Her tone was languidly interested. 'How long has he been here? 'Tree four days. 'Indeed what is he like?
This man was speaking to another person, who seemed to be a servant or valet, and who was very polite and fawning in all his retorts. "Ah! look at ze collectshung on ze pier," continued the sneering speaker. "Someone say zey belong to ze great American college. Zey act like zey belong to ze ze what you call eet? ze menageray. Zey yell, shout, jump act like ze lunatic."
“Fair, viz blue eyes, short pairhaps but not too short, slender as a—a—drom-stick, and I vould say a maid; at least I see vun stout old lady mit her, mozzer and daughter I soppose.” “And did this piece of perfection seem to appreciate you?” “Vy should I know? Zey are ze real ladies and pairtend not to see me, bot I zink zey notice me all ze same. Not ‘lady vriends,’ Bonker, ha, ha, ha!”
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