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"To what hotel shall I carry the valises?" asked Joseph. "To the Atlantic; that will be the most convenient for us. Do you know anything about these vessels in the harbor, Joseph?" "Not much, Mounseer Roobump; but they say the two steamers near the island are going to run the blockade into the States; but I don't know. They say a Confederate man-of-war came into St.
"The beggars have chopped my fingers," growled Williams. "I say Mounseer, don't make quite so free with that iron of yours; or I'll smash your top-lights." "I wish I had three on 'em on Point Beach, one up and one down. I'd sarve you out, you damned frog-eating sea-cooks!" said Roberts, squaring at the privateers' men with clenched fists.
I kick you on the knee. It is child's play. But if you will give me a sword, and take another one, I will show you how we fight over the water. They both stared at me in their solid, English way. 'Well, I'm glad you're not dead, mounseer, said the elder one at last. 'There wasn't much sign of life in you when the Bustler and me carried you down.
"It is a sweet pretty place," thought Frank, as he opened the gate which led across the fields to the Casino, that smiled down upon him with its plaster pilasters. "I wonder, though, that my father, who is so particular in general, suffers the carriage-road to be so full of holes and weeds. Mounseer does not receive many visits, I take it."
Parson's voice raised, but drowned by the laughter of his adversaries and the firm, clear tone of Captain Barnabas. "Three to our score! game!" "No help for it; Harry, deal for me. Whom ought I to ask, Mrs. Dale?" MRS. DALE. "My dear sir, I beg a thousand pardons, but listeners you know the proverb." "I hear nothing but proverbs ever since we had that Mounseer among us.
Sharp shouted, pressing with his whole weight against the door. "Let me see her! the villain! Mounseer Glendore! No, no, Herbert Daker!" The power of observation is at its quickest in moments of intense excitement. I remember looking with the utmost calmness at Sharp's face and figure, as he stood gasping before the door of Herbert Daker's lodging. It was the head of a satyr in anger.
It's on that event the song was composed: "Bonaparty's in no mood to dance, He's lost the garters he brought from France."... Do you understand? he liberated your fatherland. 'And what's that to do with me? 'Ah! you silly boy! Why, if his Highness Prince Mihalo Ilarionovitch hadn't driven out Bonaparty, some mounseer would have been beating you about the head with a stick this minute.
"But a friend in need is a friend indeed, and we may be thankful to be taken on board by her or any other craft. Even if a `Mounseer' had offered to pick us up, I would not have refused." The ship approaching was hove-to, a boat being lowered from her, which, with rapid strokes, pulled towards the raft.
The place seems well kept. What do you call poor, Mr. Bruce?" The farmer laughed. "Well, that's a home question, sir. But I believe the mounseer is as poor as a man can be who makes no debts and does not actually starve." "As poor as my father?" asked Randal, openly and abruptly. "Lord, sir! your father be a very rich man compared to him."
Please to speak plainly, ma'am." Mrs. "It was of Mounseer, as you call him, that I spoke, Mr. Hazeldean." SQUIRE. "What! Rickeybockey?" "Signor Riccabocca." "Are we playing at whist, or are we not?" The squire, who is fourth player, drops the king to Captain Higginbotham's lead of the ace of hearts.
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