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"'Bout two hour ago," answered Cupid. "He say to me, `Cupid, I lib for die to-night, and when you come on duty to-morrow you find me gone. So I want to tell you somet'ing now, before it too late. And den he tell me de news, Mr Fortescue, sar, just as I tell it to you, only in de Eboe language, which I understand, bein' well educate."
"If dat's right yer might make it yere, an' it could be kept quiet. I'd charge a little somet'ing fer der use of der room, but dat wouldn't come out of eder of youse, fer we'd make der fellers pay wot come in ter see it." "We'll see about that," said Bruce. "But now I want to know that trick." "Oh, yes. I near fergot dat." "Well, I didn't."
Sexton, who still lingered, made a gesture of surrender. "Dismiss your crew, Rondeau," he ordered. "We're whipped to a frazzle." A gleam of pleasure, not unmixed with triumph, lighted the dark eyes of the French-Canadian. "I tol' M'sieur Sexton she cannot fight M'sieur Cardigan and win," he said simply, "Now mebbe he believe that Jules Rondeau know somet'ing." "Shut up," Sexton roared petulantly.
Joe dragged him to the wooden bench beside the green table. "You bring de flute," he cried, tapping the leather case under Nils' arm. "Ah, das-a good' Now we have some liddle fun like old times. I got somet'ing good for you." Joe shook his finger at Nils and winked his blue eye, a bright clear eye, full of fire, though the tiny bloodvessels on the ball were always a little distended.
Well, you shall have it when you take me back to shore." The doctor walked slowly toward the wreck, glancing back several times to see if Old Ben was following him. The colored man rowed away in a thoughtful mood. "Somet'ing is on dat man's mind, suah!" he muttered to himself. "He's gwine ter do somet'ing." With difficulty the surgeon climbed up to the deck of the wreck.
Have you left any dead game in the Openings, for me to go and back in with you?" "You open ear, Bourdon you know what Injin say," returned the Chippewa, earnestly. "When dog get 'nough come wid me. Got somet'ing to tell. Bess hear it, when he CAN hear it" "You'll find me ready enough in a minute.
"But to refuse a Prince!" murmured Pelletan. "Eet iss somet'ing unheard of!" "It will make you famous! It's a big ad for the house! 'The Grand Hôtel Royal refuses to receive the Prince of Zeit-Zeit. Think what a stir that will make! Besides, you have no choice I require it!" "Fery well, monsieur," agreed Pelletan, with a gesture of despairing obedience. "T'ere iss one t'ing more I haf an idea."
Bateese was no longer grinning. He stood back and pointed at the food. "You eat queek. An' when you have finish' I tell you somet'ing!" Now that he saw the luscious bit of whitefish before him, Carrigan was possessed of the hungering emptiness of three days and nights. As he ate, he observed that Bateese was performing curious duties.
"Vell dey make a speech. Dey say 'Eli Fredenberg he is no more a poor devil. You can not sneeze at him once again. Nefer. He has climb de ladder up. Now you let me sell you somet'ing vat makes a good speech for you." "If you'll let me dictate the speech I'll agree," said Abe. "Vell-vat is it?" Eli asked.
He came out of the mysterious South one summer day, driving before him a few sheep, a cow, and a long-eared mule which carried his tent and other necessaries, and camped outside the town on a knoll, at the base of which was a thicket of close shrub. During the first day no one in Jansen thought anything of it, for it was a land of pilgrimage, and hundreds came and went on their journeys in search of free homesteads and good water and pasturage. But when, after three days, he was still there, Nicolle Terasse, who had little to do and an insatiable curiosity, went out to see him. He found a new sensation for Jansen. This is what he said when he came back: "You want know 'bout him, bagosh! Dat is somet'ing to see, dat man Ingles is his name. Sooch hair mooch long an' brown, and a leetla beard not so brown, an' a leather sole onto his feet, and a gray coat to his ankles oui, so like dat. An' his voice voil
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