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Here I found other funny little people, busily at work with picks and shovels, taking out wooden dishes from the bottom of the cave, and china and glass from the top and sides, for the dishes hung down just like stalactites in Mammoth Cave." Here Lill opened the book she had been reading, and showed Effie a picture of the stalactites.
He allowed a few moments more to pass, and then asked: "N'est-ce-pas, Madame Delphine? Daz ze way, aint it?" "No, Père Jerome, no. My daughter oh, Père Jerome, I bethroath my lill' girl to a w'ite man!" And immediately Madame Delphine commenced savagely drawing a thread in the fabric of her skirt with one trembling hand, while she drove the fan with the other. "Dey goin' git marry."
Several of them were light red in color, and had crinkly manes and tails; and three or four weighed as much as sixteen hundred pounds apiece. Each horse had its name, age, and weight on a tag. I still remember some of the names. There was Duncan, Ducie, Trube, Lill, Skibo, Sally, Prince, and one called William-le-Bon.
"So'y, Mistoo Itchlin," said Narcisse, whipping away the pastry crumbs from his lap with a handkerchief and wiping his mouth, "not to encounteh you a lill biffo', to join in pahtaking the cup what cheeahs at the same time whilce it invigo'ates; to-wit, the coffee-cup as the maxim say. I dunno by what fawmule she makes that coffee, but 'tis astonishin' how 'tis good, in fact.
I'm tebbly out spirits. Where shall we all go to? I dinn't think there was great a man on earth z Mizza Meadows. But the worlz wide. His Jew's eye went through our lill sgeme like a gimlet. 'Fools! says he that's me and Meadows, 'these dodges were used up in our family before Lunnun was built. Fools! Mizza Levi despises me and Meadows; and I respect him accordingly.
Lill did it very well, and Effie laughed till the tears came to her eyes; and she could quite believe Lill when she said, "It grew to be so funny that I couldn't stand, but fell over into one of the little chairs that were growing in a bed just beyond the soldiers. "When Santa Claus saw that he stopped suddenly, saying: "'There, that will do.
Blows!" gasped the president. "Ah, you didn't expec' see me," said Mr. Blows, with a scornful laugh "They're trying do me, do me out o' my lill bit o' money, Bill." "But you ain't got no money," said his bewildered friend. Mr. Blows turned and eyed him haughtily; then he confronted the staring president again. "I've come for my money," he said, impressively "one 'under-eighty pounds."
"Madame," said Monsieur Vignevielle, "wad pud you bout so hearly dis morning?" She told him her errand. She asked if he thought she would find any thing. "Yez," he said, "it was possible a few lill' bécassines-de-mer, ou somezin' ligue. But fo' w'y you lill' gal lose doze hapetide?"
The first thing Lill did was to fix her eyes on the fire, and rock backward and forward quite hard for a little while, and then she said, "Now I am going to tell you about my thought travels, and they are apt to be a little queerer, but O! ever so much nicer, than the other kind!"
But all at once Philip's eyes brightened, and he started up as though touched by the wire of an electrical machine. "Bow-wow-wow; wuph, wuph, wuph!" sounded upon the clear night air. "Trill lill lill lill chug chug chug chug chug!" rang out the sweet notes of a nightingale close by; and then again "Bow-wow-wow; wuph, wuph, wuph!" from a dog apparently not far off.
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