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"O, it was thin that they stared at me as if I had seven heads; and, faith, myself began to feel flushed like and onaisy, and so, says I, makin' a bow and scrape agin, 'I know it's a liberty I take, sir, says I, 'but it's only in the regard of bein' cast away; and if you plase, sir, says I, 'parly voo frongsay? "'We, munseer, says he, mighty sharp.
"So he seen I was vexed, and I thought, as I was turnin' away, I seen him begin to relint, and that his conscience throubled him; and says I, turnin' back, 'Well, I'll give one chance more, you ould thief, are you a Chrishthan at all? are you a furriner! says I, 'that all the world calls so p'lite? Bad luck to you, do you understand your own language? Parly voo frongsay? says I.
"Well, the word cead mile failte seemed to sthreck his heart, and the ould chap cocked his ear, and so I thought I'd give him another offer, and make him sensible at last: and so says I, wanst more, quite slow, that he might understand, 'Parly voo frongsay, munseer. "'We, munseer, says he. "'Then lind me the loan of a gridiron, says I, 'and bad scram to you.
O, if thou have Hid them in some flowery cave, Tell me but where, Sweet queen of parly, daughter of the sphere, So may'st thou be translated to the skies, And give resounding grace to all heaven's harmonies."
Accordingly Govert Lockerman was once more despatched up the river in the company's yacht, the Goed Hoop, bearing Anthony the Trumpeter as ambassador, to treat with the belligerent powers of Rensellaersteen. In the fulness of time the yacht arrived before Bearn Island, and Anthony the Trumpeter, mounting the poop, sounded a parly to the forces.
Whenever I want to make myself uncommonly agreeable to old Maria, I just say a few words of parly voo to her. She knows what I mean." "Have you abused her to your cousin, Harry Warrington?" asked Madame de Bernstein. "Well I know she is always abusing me and I have said my mind about her," said Will. "Oh, you idiot!" cried the old lady. "Who but a gaby ever spoke ill of a woman to her sweetheart?
"Well," said his friend, "all I say is There's a animal for you, as strong as a church; an'll go like a train, leastways a parly," he added, correcting himself. But the coachman had a lump in his throat and tears in his eyes.
We could not quite make out the grounds of it, except that the boatswain himself had learned one or two words of what he called parly voo when he was in service at the boys' school, and he was jealously careful of the importance which his shreds and scraps of education gave him in the eyes of the ordinary uneducated seaman.
"'Phoo! the divil swape yourself and your tongs, says I, 'I don't want a tongs at all at all; but can't you listen to raison, says I, 'Parly voo frongsay? "'We, munseer. "'Then lind me the loan of a gridiron, says I, 'and howld your prate.
O, if thou have Hid them in some flowery cave, Tell me but where, Sweet queen of parly, daughter of the sphere, So may'st thou be translated to the skies, And give resounding grace to all heaven's harmonies."
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