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'Put him on to me, he said, with perfect affability. 'I'll put him up to it. 'Rather dangerous, wouldn't it be? said Barter, showing his white teeth in a somewhat forced and ghastly manner. 'Everything's dangerous for an ass, said Steinberg. 'I shouldn't have thought, laughed Barter, 'that that was your line.
"Captain Ernstein," replied the beauty, "I thank you for your frank confession. I cannot possibly accept your hand without your heart. Nay do not frown, father I have a secret for your ear, and if you do not wish to wreck your daughter's happiness, you will urge me no further." Von Steinberg frowned, and pshawed, and pished, and then, clearing his voice, addressed the baron.
"Silence! To the general's quarters!" he commanded his men. Uncle Billy was led before General Steinberg. "So!" thundered the latter, after the situation had been explained to him. "A traitor, eh!" Uncle Billy drew himself up proudly, and the years seemed to fall from his shoulders.
"And you," he said, "you both look over young to be taking the risk of spies. How do you come to be mixed up in this business?" Hal explained. "Why did you not submit to arrest in Angermunde?" "Because we feared we would be detained." "And is that a sufficient cause for attacking a squad of German troops?" "We considered it so," replied Hal. "Enough!" exclaimed General Steinberg.
Those are only samples pattern-cards, you know. I don't believe you'll find there a single book that a gentleman's library shouldn't be without. I got old Vellum to do the thing up right, you know. I guess he knows about the books to buy. But I've just laid in some claret that you'll like, and I've got a sample of the Steinberg. Old Corque understands that kind of thing, if anybody does."
I said not a word to discourage the visions; we talked of how Coralie should make fame and he money; he grew enthusiastic, guttural, and severe on the Steinberg. I ordered more Steinberg, and fished for more enthusiasm. I put my purse at his disposal; he dipped his fingers deep, with an anxious furtive eagerness.
He tore Steinberg from his grip of the betrayer with a force he had no time to measure, and hurled him across the room. He staggered at the door, and his head coming noisily in contact with it, he slipped down into a sitting posture with an expression suddenly changed from ferocity to a complete vacuity and indifference. Now Mr.
And he went downstairs, through the swinging doors, to the back regions. There, in the wine-cellar, was a hock worth at least two pounds a bottle, a Steinberg Cabinet, better than any Johannisberg that ever went down throat; a wine of perfect bouquet, sweet as a nectarine nectar indeed! He got a bottle out, handling it like a baby, and holding it level to the light, to look.
'If I had 'em to sell, Steinberg answered calmly, flicking the waste from his cigar by a movement of his little finger, 'I should think eight hundred an uncommon good price for 'em. Later on and sold at second hand they might fetch a thousand. Later on and sold at third hand they might fetch fifteen hundred. One can hardly tell.
He omits to explain why there should be anything exceptional in the winter phenomenon of the crevices among the stones. There are two other places in Bohemia where ice is found in summer. One is on the Steinberg, in the county of Konaged; it is a small basin, surrounded by trees, where, in the middle of summer, lumps of ice are found under basaltic débris.
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