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Ven I appeal to zis gentilman to restore 'im he reffer me to you." "You must allow me to know my own dog, sir," said the colonel. "Why, I've had him from a pup. Bingo, old boy, you know your name, don't you?" But the brute ignored him altogether, and began to leap wildly at the hedge in frantic efforts to join the Frenchman. It needed no Solomon to decide his ownership!
"I dell you zis," he said, "not to aggustom your minds vid frivolity and lightness, but as a lesson in ze gonstruction of ze langwitch. If you can choke in Charman, you will be able also to gonverse in Charman." "Did the German what's-its-name print your joke?" inquired Coggs.
Le Ricardo is a fool, so zis Ricardo sing Carmen ever tam to ze great, grosse monstair MeeGeenees; an' ever'body zey laugh. Ze chorus laugh, ze principals laugh, le Monsieur Noire he laugh, even zat Frühlingsvogel zat have no humair, he laugh, an' ze audience laugh, an' las' night I am seeing you laugh. Ees eet not so? Mais! It is absurd! It is reedeec'lous.
"Oui, oui; zis way!" panted their guide, who nearly put the visitors out of patience by turning off two or three times at right angles and apparently taking them quite away from where they wished to go. "Zis way! Zis way!" he kept on crying, till at last the trio were alone, others who had been hurrying onward having taken different directions.
"You have rooms to let?" I asked. "Oh, yes, monsieur," she answered, with an expansive grin. "Step zis vay." We mounted a dirty stair, and she threw open a door with a flourish meant to be impressive. "Zese are ze rooms, monsieur; zey are ver' fine." I looked around them with simulated interest, smothering my disgust as well as I could. "How long have they been vacant?" I asked.
But I ask ye, sir, is ut fair, ye think, to the poor garls that has to stop at home?" Hereat the ladies of Brookfield, thus miserably indicated, drew upon their self-command that sprang from the high sense of martyrdom. Mr. Pericles did not reply to Mrs. Chump at all. He turned to Adela, saying aloud: "What is zis person?" It might have pleased them to hear any slight put publicly on Mrs.
"I think I'll do my own washing, after this." "We have to live, my wife and I, messieurs," explained the Frenchman, spreading his hands. "In France we live on ze very little. In New York we have one très bon café, and we charge ze very little. But out here " and he shrugged his shoulders. "We wash, and for zis meesairable caban what you call it? hut we pay ze price of 500 dollair ze month."
sit down' 'if it is ze same to you, I prefer to stand' 'good; zen I examine you. My motto: 'Time opens ze gates: my system: 'it is your doctor of regiment's system when your twelve, fifteen, forty recruits strip to him: 'Ah! you, my man, have varicose vein: no soldier in our regiment, you! So on. Perhaps I am not intelligible; but, hear zis.
Tradition told of a French lady and gentleman entering the town to take lodgings for a month, and that on the morrow they took a boat from the shore, saying in their faint English to a sailor veteran of the coastguard, whom they had consulted about the weather, "It is better zis zan zat," as they shrugged between rough sea and corpselike land. And they were not seen again. Their meaning none knew.
"I understand," said Tom. "Yess," said Frenchy with great satisfaction. "Zat is how eet is you will understand. My pappa cannot go. Zis is hees home. So he stay stay under ze Zhermans. Ah! For everything, everything, we must pay ze tax. Five hundred soldiers, zey keep, always in zis little village and only seven hundred people. Ziss is ze way. Ugh! Even ze name zey change Dundgart! Ugh!"
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