["\"most certainly sir. I have the chocolate hot, as it so happens, and some cakes new-baked.\"", "\"we shall refresh ourselves and you shall listen, if you will.\"", "\"Destruction is so fast, and to construct and build,", "\"Oh, yes sir! You bet! If I can, I'll help!\"", "\"It had to be, for it could be no other way. But there is always doubt. Your hand, my boy, for we have work to do together.\"", "\"There is a wondrous thing, unique in the world, and which, for the benefit of this growing country, we must obtain. Its possession will mean we can pay for many things -- a new city here, tools; building materials. This wonderful object is the Jewel Tree belonging to the Princess of China.\"", "\"is a tree that grows, that puts out leaves and flowers and bears fruit, but here is the wonder of it,", "\"This growing tree is made of jewels; leaves and flowers and even seeded fruit. The leaves are emeralds; the flowers, diamonds and sapphires; the fruits, huge rubies seeded thick with pearls. Imagine such a treasure if you can!", "\"Imagine the possession of such a plant!", "\"Break off a branch of it -- another grows. And flowers and fruit -- much like your orange trees -- bear both their fruit and flowers at the same time.\"", "\"for it is well guarded. But there is a greater hazard.", "\"There is a man here, posing as a merchant. Claggett Chew. You will see him in the town when you walk there, which you shall do, presently. But he has some magic powers, and knows me well. Too well.", "\"He is. He heard of it, by power of magic certainly, for it is a secret so well guarded that those who carry knowledge of it -- all but myself, up to this time -- all others have died before they could make use of it. You can well imagine,", "\"that a treasure that replenishes itself is beyond price. The Chinese Emperor knows it well. So do the guards about his palaces, and so does Claggett Chew.\"", "\"then only would we have an opportunity to seize the Jewel Tree. Can you learn what I know?", "\"Those tricks -- the fly -- and others?\"", "\"I got here, didn't I? I've gone back all these years, so I guess I could.", "\"I know that you can learn. For you it will not be hard.\"", "\"You say, sir, 'Seize the Tree.' That means just stealing it? Must we do that?\"", "\"I knew it from the first! It would be stealing, boy, but for one thing. When -- and heaven willing, if -- you reach the Tree, you will break a branch from it and stick it in the ground. It will root itself and grow and thrive, and the Princess will still have delicate jewel flowers for her hair.\"", "\"I wonder what brings them here so early? It must be a matter of some importance. Stay with me, Christopher. I shall present you to the Captain.\"", "\"Well, Captain, what brings you here so betimes? No trouble of any kind, I trust?\"", "\"Now, sir, needs must I come with unpleasant news, and sorry I am to bring it. I have heard that the Venture plans to sail at any time, and you well know she is a fast-sailing ship.", "\"Sir, it has been noised about that the Venture is headed for the West Indies.\"", "\"Early this morning Ned Cilley brought me the information that the Venture is to sail to the China seas.\"", "\"but did not know what form it was to take.", "\"News of sailings and destinations get about so rapidly, it is more than likely that someone overheard the destination of the Mirabelle, and sold his knowledge to Captain Chew. Although,", "\"I think Claggett Chew guessed it. Well,", "\"Nay sir, 'tis for orders that I came to you. It is for you to say.\"", "\"We have nearly water enough, and quite sufficient stores. The men are all assembled.\"", "\"The tide will be high at midnight, sir,", "\"here is the sandbar that the tide covers for but a short time, and should there be other ships crowding the river near this point, we must slip through there then or not at all.\"", "\"Captain Blizzard, and you, Mr. Finney,", "\"should water casks be seen going on board, the whole of Georgetown will know you mean to sail. I therefore ask you to so contrive it that the casks be hidden in bales or boxes so that they seem to be anything but what they are.", "\"Our only chance to steal a march on the Venture will be to sail at least a day before her.", "\"There is one other thing. Your orders for where you are to anchor, once near China, will be secret, and carried on the person of this boy.", "\"He has a task of utmost secrecy to carry out and will require your help, encouragement, and silence.\"", "\"but his presence on the ship must not be known until the Mirabelle is well to sea.", "\"I shall arrange to bring him aboard somehow, and give you your sailing orders later.\"", "\"Leave me these charts for yet a little while, and I shall ponder on our plans,", "\"See that the water casks are taken on at once, Captain, and hidden, and make a place for Christopher, here,", "\"Mr. Wicker, sir, I have a plan! May we look at the river charts again?\"", "\"Look, sir! Here is the sandbar, and here", "\"the Venture. Or she was, yesterday. Now sir, the sandbar being just below and ahead of the Venture, once the Mirabelle has slipped by, wouldn't it be too bad if something happened to make the Venture drift with the tide and run aground?\"", "\u201cYou will be glad when the term is over, won\u2019t you?", "\u201cThank you very much indeed for saying anything so nice,", "\u201cand perhaps now you will allow me in my turn to make a remark. It is this: If by any chance you don\u2019t leave St. Wode\u2019s, Annie, I hope you will allow me to be your roomfellow again next term.\u201d", "\u201cyou speak of something which must not take place. I must pass in honors; if I don\u2019t I shall die.\u201d", "\u201cI wish I could feel as sure of taking honors by and by in literature. I find these modern languages so very stiff.\u201d", "\u201cI have to take German literature from 1500 to the death of Goethe,", "\u201cThe course is enormous, and I am sometimes almost in despair.\u201d", "\u201cThese letters have just come for you and Annie Colchester,", "\u201cand, as I was coming upstairs, I thought I would leave them with you.\u201d", "\u201cI have been starving, or, rather, I have been thirsting. You cannot tell what a thirst like mine means; and this, this is a cup of cold water.\u201d", "\u201cI won\u2019t disturb you. I am truly glad it has come.\u201d", "\u201cIt is quite late \u2014 between ten and eleven.\u201d", "\u201cI don\u2019t care. I must go into the grounds; the air is stifling.\u201d", "\u201cI shall go \u2014 I know a way. Don\u2019t say a word. I\u2019ll be back presently.\u201d", "\u201cHow stupid of me to have forgotten about her,", "\u201cShe ought to have been in bed and to have taken her cocoa an hour ago. Oh! now I remember; she got a letter which upset her very much and went out. Dear, dear! where can she be?\u201d", "\u201cThere is nothing for it but for me to go and look for her,", "\u201cI am not going to confide in you; so don\u2019t think it. I only want to get into bed and to sleep.\u201d", "\u201cDo you want to kill me? Don\u2019t talk any more. I am sleepy; I shall sleep.\u201d", "\u201cCan\u2019t you manage with a candle, just for once?\u201d", "\u201cBy and by I must get her to tell me,", "\u201cI hain\u2019t ever done you no harm. You know that. So, then, what you want to come back and ha\u2019nt me for?\u201d", "\u201cI hain\u2019t come back \u2014 I hain\u2019t been gone.\u201d", "\u201cDon\u2019t you play nothing on me, because I wouldn\u2019t on you. Honest injun now, you ain\u2019t a ghost?\u201d", "\u201cWell \u2014 I \u2014 I \u2014 well, that ought to settle it, of course; but I can\u2019t somehow seem to understand it no way. Looky here, warn\u2019t you ever murdered at all?\u201d", "\u201cNo. I warn\u2019t ever murdered at all \u2014 I played it on them. You come in here and feel of me if you don\u2019t believe me.\u201d", "\u201cIt\u2019s all right; I\u2019ve got it. Take my trunk in your wagon, and let on it\u2019s your\u2019n; and you turn back and fool along slow, so as to get to the house about the time you ought to; and I\u2019ll go towards town a piece, and take a fresh start, and get there a quarter or a half an hour after you; and you needn\u2019t let on to know me at first.\u201d", "\u201cAll right; but wait a minute. There\u2019s one more thing \u2014 a thing that nobody don\u2019t know but me. And that is, there\u2019s a nigger here that I\u2019m a-trying to steal out of slavery, and his name is Jim \u2014 old Miss Watson\u2019s Jim.\u201d", "\u201cI know what you\u2019ll say. You\u2019ll say it\u2019s dirty, low-down business; but what if it is? I\u2019m low down; and I\u2019m a-going to steal him, and I want you keep mum and not let on. Will you?\u201d", "\u201cI\u2019ll help you steal him!\u201d", "\u201cjoking or no joking, if you hear anything said about a runaway nigger, don\u2019t forget to remember that you don\u2019t know nothing about him, and I don\u2019t know nothing about him.\u201d", "\u201cWhy, there\u2019s somebody come! I wonder who \u2019tis? Why, I do believe it\u2019s a stranger. Jimmy", "\u201crun and tell Lize to put on another plate for dinner.\u201d", "\u201cMr. Archibald Nichols, I presume?\u201d", "\u201cI\u2019m sorry to say \u2019t your driver has deceived you; Nichols\u2019s place is down a matter of three mile more. Come in, come in.\u201d", "\u201cToo late \u2014 he\u2019s out of sight.\u201d", "\u201cYes, he\u2019s gone, my son, and you must come in and eat your dinner with us; and then we\u2019ll hitch up and take you down to Nichols\u2019s.\u201d", "\u201cOh, I can\u2019t make you so much trouble; I couldn\u2019t think of it. I\u2019ll walk \u2014 I don\u2019t mind the distance.\u201d", "\u201cBut we won\u2019t let you walk \u2014 it wouldn\u2019t be Southern hospitality to do it. Come right in.\u201d", "\u201cit ain\u2019t a bit of trouble to us, not a bit in the world. You must stay. It\u2019s a long, dusty three mile, and we can\u2019t let you walk. And, besides, I\u2019ve already told \u2019em to put on another plate when I see you coming; so you mustn\u2019t disappoint us. Come right in and make yourself at home.\u201d", "\u201cI\u2019m surprised at you, m\u2019am.\u201d", "\u201cYou\u2019re s\u2019rp \u2014 Why, what do you reckon I am? I\u2019ve a good notion to take and \u2014 Say, what do you mean by kissing me?\u201d", "\u201cI didn\u2019t mean nothing, m\u2019am. I didn\u2019t mean no harm. I \u2014 I \u2014 thought you\u2019d like it.\u201d", "\u201cWhat made you think I\u2019d like it?\u201d", "\u201cWell, I don\u2019t know. Only, they \u2014 they \u2014 told me you would.\u201d", "\u201cThey told you I would. Whoever told you\u2019s another lunatic. I never heard the beat of it. Who\u2019s they?\u201d", "\u201cWhy, everybody. They all said so, m\u2019am.\u201d", "\u201cWho\u2019s \u2018everybody\u2019? Out with their names, or ther\u2019ll be an idiot short.\u201d", "\u201cI\u2019m sorry, and I warn\u2019t expecting it. They told me to. They all told me to. They all said, kiss her; and said she\u2019d like it. They all said it \u2014 every one of them. But I\u2019m sorry, m\u2019am, and I won\u2019t do it no more \u2014 I won\u2019t, honest.\u201d", "\u201cYou won\u2019t, won\u2019t you? Well, I sh\u2019d reckon you won\u2019t!\u201d", "\u201cNo\u2019m, I\u2019m honest about it; I won\u2019t ever do it again \u2014 till you ask me.\u201d", "\u201cTill I ask you! Well, I never see the beat of it in my born days! I lay you\u2019ll be the Methusalem-numskull of creation before ever I ask you \u2014 or the likes of you.\u201d", "\u201cDidn\u2019t you think she\u2019d like me to kiss her, sir?\u201d", "\u201cWhy, no; I \u2014 I \u2014 well, no, I b\u2019lieve I didn\u2019t.\u201d", "\u201cTom, didn\u2019t you think Aunt Sally \u2019d open out her arms and say, \u2018Sid Sawyer \u2014 \u2019\u201d", "\u201cNo, not till you\u2019ve asked me first.\u201d", "\u201cWhy, dear me, I never see such a surprise. We warn\u2019t looking for you at all, but only Tom. Sis never wrote to me about anybody coming but him.\u201d", "\u201cIt\u2019s because it warn\u2019t intended for any of us to come but Tom,", "\u201cPa, mayn\u2019t Tom and Sid and me go to the show?\u201d", "\u201cI reckon there ain\u2019t going to be any; and you couldn\u2019t go if there was; because the runaway nigger told Burton and me all about that scandalous show, and Burton said he would tell the people; so I reckon they\u2019ve drove the owdacious loafers out of town before this time.\u201d", "\u201cI\u2019m ready.\u201d", "\u201cKindly follow me.\u201d", "\u201cWhat about my companions, captain?\u201d", "\u201cThey\u2019ve been alerted and are waiting for us.\u201d", "\u201cAren\u2019t we going to put on our diving suits?", "\u201cHere we are, Professor Aronnax,", "\u201cOur lighting equipment would be useless to us,", "\u201cWe won\u2019t be going very deep, and the sun\u2019s rays will be sufficient to light our way. Besides, it\u2019s unwise to carry electric lanterns under these waves. Their brightness might unexpectedly attract certain dangerous occupants of these waterways.\u201d", "\u201cRifles! What for? Don\u2019t your mountaineers attack bears dagger in hand? And isn\u2019t steel surer than lead? Here\u2019s a sturdy blade. Slip it under your belt and let\u2019s be off.\u201d", "\u201cBegone you Tige! you Spot! begone sah!", "\u201cIt\u2019s you, at last! \u2014 ain\u2019t it?\u201d", "\u201cYou don\u2019t look as much like your mother as I reckoned you would; but law sakes, I don\u2019t care for that, I\u2019m so glad to see you! Dear, dear, it does seem like I could eat you up! Children, it\u2019s your cousin Tom! \u2014 tell him howdy.\u201d", "\u201cLize, hurry up and get him a hot breakfast right away \u2014 or did you get your breakfast on the boat?\u201d", "\u201cNow I can have a good look at you; and, laws-a-me, I\u2019ve been hungry for it a many and a many a time, all these long years, and it\u2019s come at last! We been expecting you a couple of days and more. What kep\u2019 you? \u2014 boat get aground?\u201d", "\u201cDon\u2019t say yes\u2019m \u2014 say Aunt Sally. Where\u2019d she get aground?\u201d", "\u201cIt warn\u2019t the grounding \u2014 that didn\u2019t keep us back but a little. We blowed out a cylinder-head.\u201d", "\u201cGood gracious! anybody hurt?\u201d", "\u201cNo\u2019m. Killed a nigger.\u201d", "\u201cNo, I didn\u2019t see nobody, Aunt Sally. The boat landed just at daylight, and I left my baggage on the wharf-boat and went looking around the town and out a piece in the country, to put in the time and not get here too soon; and so I come down the back way.\u201d", "\u201cWhy, child, it\u2019ll be stole!\u201d", "\u201cNot where I hid it I reckon it won\u2019t,", "\u201cHow\u2019d you get your breakfast so early on the boat?\u201d", "\u201cThe captain see me standing around, and told me I better have something to eat before I went ashore; so he took me in the texas to the officers\u2019 lunch, and give me all I wanted.\u201d", "\u201cHere he comes! Stick your head down lower \u2014 there, that\u2019ll do; you can\u2019t be seen now. Don\u2019t you let on you\u2019re here. I\u2019ll play a joke on him. Children, don\u2019t you say a word.\u201d", "\u201cwhat in the warld can have become of him?\u201d", "\u201cand I must say it makes me dreadful uneasy.\u201d", "\u201cI\u2019m ready to go distracted! He must a come; and you\u2019ve missed him along the road. I know it\u2019s so \u2014 something tells me so.\u201d", "\u201cWhy, Sally, I couldn\u2019t miss him along the road \u2014 you know that.\u201d", "\u201cOh, don\u2019t distress me any more\u2019n I\u2019m already distressed. I don\u2019t know what in the world to make of it. I\u2019m at my wit\u2019s end, and I don\u2019t mind acknowledging \u2019t I\u2019m right down scared. But there\u2019s no hope that he\u2019s come; for he couldn\u2019t come and me miss him. Sally, it\u2019s terrible \u2014 just terrible \u2014 something\u2019s happened to the boat, sure!\u201d", "\u201cWhy, Silas! Look yonder! \u2014 up the road! \u2014 ain\u2019t that somebody coming?\u201d", "\u201cWho do you reckon \u2019t is?\u201d", "\u201cI hain\u2019t no idea. Who is it?\u201d", "\u201cIt\u2019s Tom Sawyer!\u201d", "\"and it just set me off. I hope I didn't disturb you?\"", "\"Well now. So you are awake at the last, eh? And hungry, bein' a boy, I don't doubt?\"", "\"So you are Chris, did you say? Christopher, that would be? And I am Mistress Rebecca Boozer, should you be wanting to know. Becky Boozer, they call me.\"", "\"for Mr. Wicker will be wanting to see you when you have done. It's late. Past eight of the clock.", "\"It might be just possible that Master Cilley will be passing by before long for a midmorning snack and here I am gossiping with you instead of getting on with my work.\"", "\"Don't you have an icebox?", "\"We have a larder on the cool side of the house, if that be what you mean,", "\"Keeps the food pretty well up to April or May. Then the heat makes everything go. Oh! This heat! Prosperity, Maryland, where I come from, and on the sea coast as it is, was never like this!\"", "\"If you had a little wooden trough that led from that tub out through the window there, you could pull out a bung when you were ready and the water would run outdoors. It would save you carrying that great tub about, when you are in a hurry.\"", "\"I would never have thought it,", "\"by the look of you. Never in this world. You have brains, young lad, that's what you have. A better idea than that I never heard! Indeed, it is just what I have been a-needin' since years, and that simple I might have thought it out myself! I shall set Master Cilley to work on it when he comes. He's right handy with tools, is Ned Cilley.\"", "\"How can I start the day right 'thout a kiss from my Boozer?\"", "\"Get along with you, Cilley! What a way to behave,", "\"A visitor, eh? Well, well. Off a ship?\"", "\"from another part of the country. He got here last night and slept late, as you see.\"", "\"I shall sit here, Mistress Becky, by your leave,", "\"And could I tempt you with a morsel, Master Cilley?\"", "\"How could I refuse when I know your fame as a cook?", "\"But a crumb, Mistress Becky. A morsel. A taste. Just to pay my respects to your art, as it were.\"", "\"Try just a taste, to please me.\"", "\"You must keep your strength up, Ned Cilley,", "\"Aye, that it is, that it is!", "\"You have saved me again. Ah! Mistress Becky, what a treasure you are!\"", "\"I shall be back, Master Cilley! I pray you, do not leave!\"", "\"Why does she wear that queer hat?\"", "\"And bring out a steak, there! You look as if you could stand it -- and Fats don't forget old friends!\"", "\"Maybe you should have got me that night, Fats.\"", "\"Guess I'll have to stick to selling meals, mostly -- for a while, at least. Somebody told me you'd joined Security and got banged up trying to keep Trench from blowing up the dome. Thought you'd be in the chips!\"", "\"Why don't you pull off the planet, Fats? You could go back to Earth, I'd guess.\"", "\"Hello, Gordon. Finally got our orders for you. It's Mercury!\"", "\"All right. I suppose you know I ruined the dome, was supposed to have killed Murdoch, pretended I was a Security agent...\"", "\"You can't stay here. They'll find out too much eventually.", "\"All right. But I wish you'd tell my wife sometime that -- well, that I didn't just run out on her. She's had bad luck with men.\"", "\"I've been waiting for you quite a while, you know. And I've paid her the pay we owe you from the time you began using your badge. She's out shopping!\"", "\"Did you think we'd let you go without seeing you off, cobber?", "\"And after I took a bath to celebrate? I -- I -- Oh, drat it, I'm getting old. Izzy, you tell him.\"", "\"I can't say it, either, gov'nor -- but some day, I'm going to have one of those badges myself. Like I always said, honesty sure pays, even if it kills you. Here!\"", "\"I've been shopping and I spent the money the man gave me. This is all I have left. Do you think it's worth it? Or should I take it back?\"", "\u201cWhen I found that the home path of the Hurons run north,", "\u201cHeaven protect us from such an error!", "\u201cLet us retrace our steps, and examine as we go, with keener eyes. Has Uncas no counsel to offer in such a strait?\u201d", "\u201cthe lad is quick of sight and keen of wit for his years.\u201d", "\u201c\u2019Tis extraordinary that he should have withheld his knowledge so long,", "\u201cthe dark-hair has gone toward the forest.\u201d", "\u201cHound never ran on a more beautiful scent,", "\u201cwe are favored, greatly favored, and can follow with high noses. Ay, here are both your waddling beasts: this Huron travels like a white general. The fellow is stricken with a judgment, and is mad! Look sharp for wheels, Sagamore,", "\u201cwe shall soon have the fool journeying in a coach, and that with three of the best pair of eyes on the borders in his rear.\u201d", "\u201cThat our march is come to a quick end, and that we are in an enemy\u2019s country,", "\u201cSuch cunning is not without its deviltry,", "\u201cWe must get down to it, Sagamore, beginning at the spring, and going over the ground by inches. The Huron shall never brag in his tribe that he has a foot which leaves no print.\u201d", "\u201cThis lad will be an honor to his people,", "\u201cI can now read the whole of it, as plainly as if I had seen the arts of Le Subtil,", "\u201cthe singer being a man whose gifts lay chiefly in his throat and feet, was made to go first, and the others have trod in his steps, imitating their formation.\u201d", "\u201cthe varlet has found a way to carry them, until he supposed he had thrown any followers off the scent. My life on it, we see their pretty little feet again, before many rods go by.\u201d", "\u201cAy, it has been planned with Indian judgment,", "\u201cWill this assist in explaining the difficulty?", "\u201cThe tender limbs of my daughters are unequal to these hardships,", "\u201cwe shall find their fainting forms in this desert.\u201d", "\u201cYou see we have reached their settlement or encampment,", "\u201cand here is one of the savages himself, in a very embarrassing position for our further movements.\u201d", "\u201cnor of any of the Canada tribes; and yet you see, by his clothes, the knave has been plundering a white. Ay, Montcalm has raked the woods for his inroad, and a whooping, murdering set of varlets has he gathered together. Can you see where he has put his rifle or his bow?\u201d", "\u201cHe appears to have no arms; nor does he seem to be viciously inclined. Unless he communicate the alarm to his fellows, who, as you see, are dodging about the water, we have but little to fear from him.\u201d", "\u201cFellows who are dodging about the water!", "\u201cso much for schooling and passing a boyhood in the settlements! The knave has long legs, though, and shall not be trusted. Do you keep him under your rifle while I creep in behind, through the bush, and take him alive. Fire on no account.\u201d", "\u201cIf I see you in danger, may I not risk a shot?\u201d", "\u201cHow now, friend! have you a mind to teach the beavers to sing?\u201d", "\"and look after young Christopher as best you can.\"", "\"This is no time for misunderstandings!\"", "\"Aye aye, sir! All is clear!", "\"Then Godspeed to you all and bring you safely home,", "\"Be on the lookout for this lad, Ned, when you get past the bar.\"", "\"First, wind the rope about your waist, and once on board, bind it under your shirt. Let no one, not even Amos, know of it.\"", "\"Here are some oddments of magic that may prove their usefulness,", "\"What happens to the rope and pouch when I change my shape, sir?", "\"They will remain with you, have no fear of that,", "\"What would be the use of magic if it proved unable to adjust itself?", "\"Now we must be off and lose no time, for we have much ahead of us,", "\"What I wouldn't give for a flashlight!", "\"Yes, the twentieth century has many conveniences,", "\"I shall see that the men sleep soundly,", "\"We took too long! It seems we are a trifle late!\"", "\"is the place marked?", "\"Hup! Oh dear! the hiccups!", "\"Let me have more wine!\"", "\"Mark it -- hic! -- Claggett. You may forget. All those -- hup! -- walls, to get over, or -- hic! under.", "\"Oh dear! Hic! Think of those jewels, Claggett! Hup! Devil take these hiccups!", "\"Are you asleep, or angry, or -- ? Hic! -- Put a cross where the Tree is, I say! I want those -- hup! -- jewels, Claggett, and so do you! Hic!\"", "\"He's here! Hullo! Night watchman!", "\"Hm-mm. Hic! Jewels! Hup!", "\"Shall I become a beaver and go down and gnaw the rope off at the anchor?\"", "\"It can be more easily done than that and nothing to trace it. Get in the boat. Here comes the Mirabelle.\"", "\"And we must get out of her way, for here she comes down at us. The wind and the tide and -- hm-m -- other forces will drive her solidly upon the bar. If I mistake not, it will be several days before they get her off,", "\"Quick, lad! Now we must catch the Mirabelle, and you and I must part.\"", "\"Now, let us send this boat over the river as fast as she can go. And bear in mind -- keep your own shape at all times unless you can change it out of sight of prying eyes.", "\"Oh yes, I nearly forgot. Among the effects placed in your sea chest you will find a conch shell. Hold it to your ear, Christopher, as children do to hear the sea. You will be able to hear my voice, if ever you should need to.\"", "\"Have you forgotten who I am, my boy?", "\"Then undo the dinghy and clamber up the side, for here we are,", "\"I'll do my best, sir, but I hope you'll stay with me!", "\u201cOh, Puttel, Puttel, what a fool I am!\u201d", "\u201cIt don't do to think of her, and I won't!", "\u201cWhat an easy life I should have plenty of money, quantities of friends, all sorts of pleasures, and no work, no poverty, no cold shoulders or patched boots. I could do so much for all at home how I should enjoy that!", "\u201cIt's a pretty name, but rather too fine, and I should n't dare to say 'Syd,' as his sister does. I like short, plain, home-like names, such as Will, Ned, or Tom. No, no, I can never care for him, and it's no use to try!", "\u201cI won't think of myself, or try to mend one mistake by making another,", "\u201cPuttel, when missis abuses you, play it's dyspepsia, and don't bear malice, because it's a very trying disease, my dear.\u201d", "\u201cdelicate and dangerous task.", "\u201cIf I don't love him, I ought not to marry him, especially when I do love somebody else, though everything is against me.", "\u201cOnly Mr. Sydney and Master Tom. Won't you stop a bit, Miss Polly?\u201d", "\u201cNot this morning, I'm rather in a hurry.", "\u201cNow, go back, old dear, you must n't follow me. Oh, Nep, it's so hard to put love away when you want it very much and it is n't right to take it.", "\u201cSince he is safe with Fanny, I may venture to walk where I like. It 's such a lovely day, all the babies will be out, and it always does me good to see them,", "\u201cTake hold of Master Charley's hand, Miss Mamie, and walk pretty, like Willy and Flossy,", "\u201cNo, no, I want to do wid Willy, and he won't let me. Do'way, Tarley, I don't lite you,", "\u201cWilly likes Flossy best, so stop crying and come right along, you naughty child.\u201d", "\u201cHow early the old story begins!\u201d", "\u201cThat little romance runs smoothly so far; I hope it may to the end,", "\u201cHow happy they seem; oh, dear!", "\u201cHave you given up teaching the Roths?", "\u201cWell, it's a mystery to me how you get there.\u201d", "\u201cAs much as it is to me how you got here so suddenly.\u201d", "\u201cI saw you from the Shaws' window and took the liberty of running after you by the back street,", "\u201cIt's not nearly so pleasant or so short for you as the park.\u201d", "\u201cI know it, but people sometimes get tired of old ways and like to try new ones.\u201d", "\u201cDo you get tired of old friends, too, Miss Polly?\u201d", "\u201cDashing, as ever. Do you know I'm rather disappointed in Fanny, for she don't seem to improve with her years,", "\u201cAh, you never see her at her best. She puts on that dashing air before people to hide her real self. But I know her better; and I assure you that she does improve; she tries to mend her faults, though she won't own it, and will surprise you some day, by the amount of heart and sense and goodness she has got.\u201d", "\u201cI'm very glad to hear it, and willingly take your word for it. Everybody shows you their good side, I think, and that is why you find the world such a pleasant place.\u201d", "\u201cOh, but I don't! It often seems like a very hard and dismal place, and I croak over my trials like an ungrateful raven.\u201d", "\u201cCan't we make the trials lighter for you?\u201d", "\u201cThank you, no. I don't get more tribulation than is good for me, I fancy, and we are apt to make mistakes when we try to dodge troubles.\u201d", "\u201cYes, it's the pleasantest walk we have; don't you think so?", "\u201cYes, indeed! It's always so refreshing to me to see a little bit of the country, as it were, especially at this season.\u201d", "\u201cI thought so; well, I'm going out of town on business for several weeks, so you can enjoy your'little bit of country' without being annoyed by me.\u201d", "\u201cHonestly, now, would n't you go the old way and enjoy it as much as ever, if I was n't anywhere about to set the busybodies gossiping?\u201d", "\u201cWhat have you been doing with yourself lately?", "\u201cWagging to and fro as usual. What's the news with you?", "\u201cNothing particular. Trix treats Tom shamefully, and he bears it like a lamb. I tell him to break his engagement, and not be worried so; but he won't, because she has been jilted once and he thinks it's such a mean thing to do.\u201d", "\u201cI've no doubt she will, if anything better comes along. But Trix is getting passe, and I should n't wonder if she kept him to his word, just out of perversity, if nothing else.\u201d", "\u201cIf you call Trix passe at twenty-three, what shall we all be at twenty-five?", "\u201cUtterly done with, and laid upon the shelf. I feel so already, for I don't get half the attention I used to have, and the other night I heard Maud and Grace wondering why those old girls'did n't stay at home, and give them a chance.'\u201d", "\u201cPretty well, but she worries me by her queer tastes and notions. She loves to go into the kitchen and mess, she hates to study, and said right before the Vincents that she should think it would be great fun to be a beggar-girl, to go round with a basket, it must be so interesting to see what you'd get.\u201d", "\u201cMinnie said the other day she wished she was a pigeon so she could paddle in the puddles and not fuss about rubbers.\u201d", "\u201cBy the way, when is her uncle coming back?", "\u201cNor care, I suppose, you hard-hearted thing.\u201d", "\u201cI'm not blind, my dear, neither is Tom, and when a young gentleman cuts a call abruptly short, and races after a young lady, and is seen holding her hand at the quietest corner of the park, and then goes travelling all of a sudden, we know what it means if you don't.\u201d", "\u201cWho got up that nice idea, I should like to know?", "\u201cNow don't be affected, Polly, but just tell me, like a dear, has n't he proposed?\u201d", "\u201cI don't think he'll ever say a word to me.\u201d", "\u201cI don't mean to be prying, but I really thought he did.\u201d", "\u201cThat's not for me to say, but if it is so, it's only a passing fancy and he'll soon get over it.\u201d", "\u201cDo tell me all about it; I'm so interested, and I know something has happened, I hear it in your voice, for I can't see your face.\u201d", "\u201cDo you remember the talk we once had after reading one of Miss Edgeworth's stories about not letting one's lovers come to a declaration if one did n't love them?\u201d", "\u201cNo, he would n't; He'd like it and respect you for doing it. But, Polly, it would have been a grand thing for you.\u201d", "\u201cI can't sell myself for an establishment.\u201d", "\u201cWell, that's the plain English of half your fashionable matches. I 'm'odd,' you know, and prefer to be an independent spinster and teach music all my days.\u201d", "\u201cAh, but you won't. You were made for a nice, happy home of your own, and I hope you'll get it, Polly, dear,", "\u201cI hope I may; but I doubt it,", "\u201cSomething troubles you, Polly, what is it? Confide in me, as I do in you,", "\u201cOh, my dear! my dear! did you do it for my sake?\u201d", "\"I know neither slave girl nor anyone else; and none shall enter here without my searching him according to the King's commands.", "\"I thought thee a man of sense and good breeding; but, if thou be changed, I will let the Princess know of it and tell her how thou hinderest her slave girl;", "\"Go forth from me now, for I wish to amuse myself in privacy.", "\"O my father, what shall we do?", "\"O my son, this is a difficult matter, and except we return to his sire and tell him, he will blame us therefor.", "\"Know, O beloved of my heart and vitals, that the longer I abide with thee, the more love and longing and passion and desire increase on me, for that I have not yet fulfilled the whole of my wish.", "\"What then wouldst thou have, O light of my eyes and fruit of my vitals? If thou desire aught beside kissing and embracing and entwining of legs with legs, do what pleaseth thee; for, by Allah, no partner hath any part in us.\"[FN#4", "\"And now I wish to return to my father, that he may send an ambassador to thy sire, to demand thee in wedlock for me, so we may be at ease.", "\"O Kafur,[FN#49] take this casket and wend with it to the Princess Dunya.", "\"O Kafur, veil thou what Allah hath veiled!\"[FN#5", "\"I cannot conceal aught from the King", "\"Hast thou given the casket to the Princess?", "\"Take the casket, here it is for I cannot conceal aught from thee. Know that I found a handsome young man by the side of the Princess and they two asleep in one bed and in mutual embrace.", "\"Slay me before thou slayest him.", "\"Woe to thee! whence art thou? Who is thy father and what hath emboldened thee to debauch my daughter?", "\"Know, O King, that if thou put me to death, thou art a lost man, and thou and all in thy dominions will repent the deed.", "\"Know that I am the son of King Sulayman Shah, and ere thou knowest it, he will be upon thee with his horse and foot.", "\"O King of the Age, it is my opinion that thou make haste to slay this gallows bird who dares debauch the daughters of Kings.", "\"Strike off his head; for he is a traitor.", "\"I saw an army like the dashing sea with its clashing surge: and their horses curvetting till earth trembleth with the tramp; and I know no more of them.", "\"Have not any of our army gone forth to meet this army?", "\"Know that he who hath come down upon thy realm is no King like unto the Kings of yore and the Sultans that went before.", "\"Woe to you! Go down and search for the youth.", "\"O my son, be not wroth with me, neither blame the sinner for his sin; but have compassion on my grey hairs, and waste not my realm.", "\"No harm shall come to thee, for indeed thou art to me as my father; but look that nought befal my beloved, the Lady Dunya!", "\"O my lord! fear not for her; naught but joy shall betide her;", "\"Good fortune hath attended your every action, first and last.", "\"Needs must I slay myself and not survive my beloved.", "\"O Princess of kings' daughters, hold thy hand and have ruth on thy sire and the folk of thy realm!", "\"Let it not be that an ill thing befal thy father for thy sake!", "\"The marriage waiteth only for thy consent.", "\"Did I not tell thee that he was the son of a Sultan? By Allah, there is no help for it but that I let him crucify thee on a bit of wood worth two pieces of silver!", "\"O my daughter, have mercy on me, so Allah have mercy on thee!", "\"Up with you and make haste and go bring him to me without delay.", "\"Thou hast desolated me by thine absence!", "\"Sawest thou ever any that could do hurt to the like of this beautiful being, who is moreover a King, the son of a King and of the free born,[FN#54] guarded against ignoble deeds?", "\"Praise be to Allah who hath granted the dearest wish of my son!", "\"I desire to have the marriage contract between my son and thy daughter drawn up in the presence of witnesses, that the wedding may be made public, even as is the custom of Kings.", "\"O my brother and my true friend! take these loads and accept them from me by way of gift and token of affection, and go in peace to thine own country.", "\"By Allah, O my master, were it not for my mother, I never would part from thee! But, good my lord! leave me not without news of thee.", "\"Indeed I'm strong to bear whate'er befal; * But weak to bear such parting's dire mischance: What heart estrangement of the friend can bear? * What strength withstand assault of severance?\"", "\u201cI think it is now time to take leave of each other. The tide, you perceive, is rising; ten minutes hence it will have soaked the sands where we are now walking in such a manner that we shall not be able to keep our footing.\u201d", "\u201cBut, you mean, we are still upon soil which is part of the king\u2019s territory.\u201d", "\u201cYes; but we can hardly reach it now, without getting our feet wet.\u201d", "\u201cYes; but observe that it forms an eminence tolerably high, and that the tide rises up on every side, leaving the top free. We shall be admirably placed upon that little theatre. What do you think of it?\u201d", "\u201cI shall be perfectly happy wherever I may have the honor of crossing my sword with your lordship\u2019s.\u201d", "\u201cMy reason for not walking faster was, that I did not wish to precede your Grace. Are you still on dry land, my lord?\u201d", "\u201cYou will observe, my lord, that in turning your back to them, you will have the sun full in your face.\u201d", "\u201cOh, its rays are very feeble at this hour and it will soon disappear; do not be uneasy on that score.\u201d", "\u201cAs you please, my lord; it was out of consideration for your lordship that I made the remark.\u201d", "\u201cI am aware of that, M. de Wardes, and I fully appreciate your kindness. Shall we take off our doublets?\u201d", "\u201cDo not hesitate to tell me, M. de Wardes, if you do not feel comfortable upon the wet sand, or if you think yourself a little too close to French territory. We could fight in England, or even upon my yacht.\u201d", "\u201cwe shall hardly have time to begin. Do you not perceive how our feet are sinking into the sand?\u201d", "\u201cI have sunk up to the ankles,", "\u201cwithout reckoning that the water is even now breaking in upon us.\u201d", "\u201cIt has already reached me. As soon as you please, therefore, your Grace,", "\u201cAnd I, my lord, have only this to reply to you: I have not disliked you hitherto, but, since you give me such a character, I hate you, and will do all I possibly can to kill you;", "\u201cYes, monsieur, but only slightly.\u201d", "\u201cYet you quitted your guard.\u201d", "\u201cOnly from the first effect of the cold steel, but I have recovered. Let us go on, if you please.", "\u201cbut very near it.\u201d", "\u201cWell, what is to be done; can you walk?", "\u201ccall to your people, or I shall be drowned.\u201d", "\u201cHalloa! boat there! quick, quick!\u201d", "\u201cobey directly! M. de Wardes on shore! M. de Wardes\u2019s safety to be looked to first, or I will have you all hanged!\u201d", "\u201cI commit him to your care, as you value your lives,", "\u201cTake M. de Wardes on shore.", "\u201cFrom my master, his Grace the Duke of Buckingham, in order that every possible care may be taken of the Marquis de Wardes.\u201d", "\"Gordon? Where the hell you been?\"", "\"Up an alley between McCutcheon and Miles,", "\"With a corpse. Murdoch's corpse. Better send out the wagon.\"", "\"Okay, I'll be out in ten minutes.\"", "\"Yeah. Claimed he was head of it here, and wanted me to send a message to Earth for him.\"", "\"He must have been to spin that story ... By the way, thanks for killing that sniper. You're a good shot. I'd be dead if you weren't, I guess.\"", "\"I could start a nasty investigation, I guess. But I heard him raving, too. Give me a hand, and I'll take care of all this ... Want me to drop you off?\"", "\"Congratulations, by the way. I forgot to tell you, but you won the lottery. You're a sergeant from now on.\"", "\"We thought you'd gone on the lam, cobber. But I guess, since Trench brought you back, you've cooled. Good, good. As a respectable man now, I couldn't have stashed you from the cops -- though I might have been tempted -- mighty tempted.", "\"Tell me, lad, did they get Murdoch?\"", "\"Fate's against me, cobber. With all the shooting, some punk put a bullet clean through the wall and the plastic of the tub. Fifty gallons of water, all wasted!\"", "\"I had odds you'd beat the ticket, though the Mother and me were worried there for a while. How'd you grease the fix?\"", "\"Price of being honest. But the gees who paid me protection didn't get hurt, gov'nor.", "\"So they pay double tomorrow. Honesty pays, gov'nor, if you squeeze it once in a while ... Funny, you making sergeant; I thought two other gees won the lottery.\"", "\"It's easy enough, and you'll get plenty of credit in the fund for it. I need two men who can keep their mouths shut.\"", "\"That's it. Take tomorrow off, if you want, and I'll fix credit for you. But just remember you haven't seen anything. You don't know any more than our old friend Murdoch!\"", "\"Guns and contraband ammunition for the administration from Earth. And they must have paid half the graft they've taken for that. What the hell do they want it for?\"", "\"War, what else? Gov'nor, Earth must be boiling about the election. Maybe Security's getting set to spring.\"", "\"That's the way a panic is, cobber,", "\"There's a run, then everything is ruined. I tried to get you when I first heard the rumor, but you were gone. And when this starts, a man has to get there first.", "\"If we hold past midnight, we'll be set, gov'nor,", "\"They go crazy for a while, but give 'em a few hours and they stop most of it. I figure you know where all the scratch went?\"", "\"Sure -- guns from Earth! The damned fools!\"", "\"Yeah. But not fools. Just bloody well-informed, gov'nor. Earth's sending a fleet -- got official word of it. No way of telling how big, but it's coming.\"", "\u201cI know not your nature nor intents; but if aught you meditate against the person and rights of one of the humblest servants of the temple, listen to the inspired language of the youth of Israel, and repent.\u201d", "\u201cPut up the tooting we\u2019pon, and teach your throat modesty. Five words of plain and comprehendible English are worth just now an hour of squalling.\u201d", "\u201cA man like yourself; and one whose blood is as little tainted by the cross of a bear, or an Indian, as your own. Have you so soon forgotten from whom you received the foolish instrument you hold in your hand?\u201d", "\u201cI have found many marvels during my sojourn with the heathen, but surely nothing to excel this.\u201d", "\u201cyou may see a skin, which, if it be not as white as one of the gentle ones, has no tinge of red to it that the winds of the heaven and the sun have not bestowed. Now let us to business.\u201d", "\u201cFirst tell me of the maiden, and of the youth who so bravely sought her,", "\u201cAy, they are happily freed from the tomahawks of these varlets. But can you put me on the scent of Uncas?\u201d", "\u201cthough I greatly fear your presence would rather increase than mitigate his unhappy fortunes.\u201d", "\u201cthe Yengeese, my foolish countrymen, have told them to take up the tomahawk, and strike their fathers in the Canadas, and they have forgotten their sex. Does my brother wish to hear \u2018Le Cerf Agile\u2019 ask for his petticoats, and see him weep before the Hurons, at the stake?\u201d", "\u201cThen let him step aside, and the cunning man will blow upon the dog. Tell it to my brothers.\u201d", "\u201cThe cunning man is afraid that his breath will blow upon his brothers, and take away their courage too,", "\u201cTo the Tortoises; they are the children of my grandfathers.\u201d", "\u201cthe same blood runs in your veins, I believe; but time and distance has a little changed its color. What shall we do with the Mingoes at the door? They count six, and this singer is as good as nothing.\u201d", "\u201ctheir \u2018totem\u2019 is a moose, and they run like snails. The Delawares are children of the tortoise, and they outstrip the deer.\u201d", "\u201cit is unreasonable to keep one man in bondage to the gifts of another. So, Uncas, you had better take the lead, while I will put on the skin again, and trust to cunning for want of speed.\u201d", "\u201cwhy do you tarry? There will be time enough for me, as the knaves will give chase to you at first.\u201d", "\u201cTo fight with his father\u2019s brother, and die with the friend of the Delawares.\u201d", "\u201c\u2019twould have been more like a Mingo than a Mohican had you left me. But I thought I would make the offer, seeing that youth commonly loves life. Well, what can\u2019t be done by main courage, in war, must be done by circumvention. Put on the skin; I doubt not you can play the bear nearly as well as myself.\u201d", "\u201can exchange of garments will be a great convenience to you, inasmuch as you are but little accustomed to the make-shifts of the wilderness. Here, take my hunting shirt and cap, and give me your blanket and hat. You must trust me with the book and spectacles, as well as the tooter, too; if we ever meet again, in better times, you shall have all back again, with many thanks into the bargain.\u201d", "\u201cMy pursuits are peaceful, and my temper, I humbly trust, is greatly given to mercy and love,", "\u201cbut there are none who can say that I have ever forgotten my faith in the Lord, even in the greatest straits.\u201d", "\u201cI will abide in the place of the Delaware. Bravely and generously has he battled in my behalf, and this, and more, will I dare in his service.\u201d", "\u201cI am an unworthy and humble follower of one who taught not the damnable principle of revenge. Should I fall, therefore, seek no victims to my manes, but rather forgive my destroyers; and if you remember them at all, let it be in prayers for the enlightening of their minds, and for their eternal welfare.\u201d", "\u201cdifferent from the law of the woods; and yet it is fair and noble to reflect upon.", "\u201cis he afraid? Will the Hurons hear his groans?\u201d", "\u201clet them yell again! \u2019Twas nothing but wonderment.\u201d", "\u201ctwo, at least, will find it to their deaths.\u201d", "'why don't you speak? but perhaps,", "'lest by speaking I should anger you -- for surely you must be some goddess or sea-nymph?'", "'No, I am no goddess or nymph, and you will not anger me -- if only you will tell me many things I want to know!'", "'Why don't you ask me who I am, and what I am doing here alone? do not you care to know?'", "'I am a siren -- are you not afraid now?'", "'you don't know why I sit and watch for the great gilded ships you mortals build for yourselves?'", "'I have watched them myself many a time; they are grand as they sweep by, with their sharp brazen beaks cleaving the frothing water, and their painted sails curving out firm against the sky. It is good to hear the measured thud of the great oars and the cheerful cries of the sailors as they clamber about the cordage.'", "'the beach is bare; where, then, are all those gone who have lain here?'", "'they are not here for long; when the sea comes up it carries them away.'", "'you do not even try to keep them here?'", "'I do not want them. More will always come when I wish. And it is so wearisome always to see the same faces, that I am glad when they go.'", "'And why will you not believe me? It is true!'", "'do you know how bitter it is to die, -- to leave the sunlight and the warm air, the fair land and the changing sea?'", "'I shall never die -- unless -- unless something happens which will never be!'", "'I am not cruel, as you think me; when they are no longer pleasant to look at, I leave them. I never see them borne away. I never thought what became of them at last. Where are they now?'", "'You can let them sail by unharmed,", "'Of what use is my power to me if I may not exercise it? Why do you tell me of men's sufferings -- what are they to me?'", "'you fill them with a hopeless love and they die for it in misery -- yet you cannot even pity them!'", "'What is this that is called love? For I have always known that if I ever love -- but then only -- I must die, though what love may be I know not. Tell me, so that I may avoid it!'", "'for, if death is only to come to you through love, you will never die!'", "'I shall indeed never die! But that is not how men love me?", "'their love for you must be some strange and enslaving passion, since they will submit to death if only they may hear your voice. That is not true love, but a fatal madness.'", "'But if mortals feel love for one another,", "'The love of a man for a maiden who is gentle and good does not kill -- even when it is most hopeless,", "'and where she feels it in return, it is well for both, for their lives will flow on together in peace and happiness.'", "'And you love one of your mortal maidens like that?", "'but she is fair and gracious, my maiden; and it is she who has my love, and will have it while I live.'", "'even you cannot make me false to my love! And yet,", "'I dare not challenge you, enchantress that you are; what is my will against your power?'", "'you have called me cruel, and reproached me; you have dared to tell me of a maiden compared with whom I am nothing! You shall be punished. I will have you for my own, like the others!'", "'take my life if you will -- but do not drive away the memory of my love; let me die, if I must die, faithful to her; for what am I, or what is my love, to you?'", "'yet I want you; you shall lie here, and hold my hand, and look into my eyes, and forget all else but me.'", "'there is still time; save yourself, for I cannot let you die!'", "'it is love that I feel for him. But I cannot love -- I must not love him -- for if I do, my power is gone, and I must throw myself into the sea!'", "'I will be that one. I am cruel and wicked, as he told me; I have done harm enough!", "'you shall not be drowned -- for I love you. Sail back to your maiden on the mainland, and be happy; but do not hate me for the evil I have wrought, for suffering and death have come to me in my turn!'", "\u201cYou\u2019re going to the water, Miss? \u2014 you think she\u2019s in \u2014 ?\u201d", "\u201cShe may be, though the depth is, I believe, nowhere very great. But what I judge most likely is that she\u2019s on the spot from which, the other day, we saw together what I told you.\u201d", "\u201cWhen she pretended not to see \u2014 ?\u201d", "\u201cWith that astounding self-possession? I\u2019ve always been sure she wanted to go back alone. And now her brother has managed it for her.\u201d", "\u201cYou suppose they really talk of them?\u201d", "\u201cI could meet this with a confidence! They say things that, if we heard them, would simply appall us.\u201d", "\u201cBeyond a doubt. You shall see.\u201d", "\u201cNo, no; wait! She has taken the boat.\u201d", "\u201cThen where is it?\u201d", "\u201cOur not seeing it is the strongest of proofs. She has used it to go over, and then has managed to hide it.\u201d", "\u201cAll alone \u2014 that child?\u201d", "\u201cShe\u2019s not alone, and at such times she\u2019s not a child: she\u2019s an old, old woman.", "\u201cBut if the boat\u2019s there, where on earth\u2019s she?", "\u201cCertainly, far as it is. It will take us but ten minutes, but it\u2019s far enough to have made the child prefer not to walk. She went straight over.\u201d", "'I do wish I was back in Regent Street again,", "'Dull! You were never in Regent Street, or you wouldn't ask such a question.'", "'I came from the Lowther Arcade,", "'then, of course, this would be quite a pleasant change for you.'", "'I liked the Arcade. It was so lively; a little noisy perhaps -- too much top spinning, and pop-gunning, and mouth-organ playing all round one -- but very cheerful. Yes, I liked the Arcade.'", "'Very mixed the society there, isn't it?", "'aren't you expected to know penny things?'", "'Well, there were a good many penny things there,", "'and very amusing they were. There was a wooden bird there that used to duck his head and wag his tail when they swung a weight underneath -- he would have made you laugh so!'", "'I should never so far forget myself as to laugh under any circumstances -- and certainly not at a penny thing!'", "'not very much, I can see from his manner. But perhaps I can get him to tell me. Do you remember,", "'oh, elevenpence three farthings -- it was on the ticket.'", "'I don't see how you can possibly tell,", "'the Lowther Arcade is not Regent Street.'", "'And were you very happy at Regent Street?", "'I don't think you'll find it so very bad here, when you get a little more used to it,", "'Pray don't use that very unpleasant word,", "'Well, our hostess, then -- Winifred, she's not unkind. She doesn't care much about me, and that cousin of hers, Master Archie, gives me a bad time of it when I come in his way, but really she's very polite and attentive to you.'", "'I don't call it an attention to be treated like a baby by a little chit of a girl who can't dress herself properly yet -- no style, no elegance, and actually a pinafore in the mornings!'", "'Well, I prefer make-believe tea myself,", "'because, you see, I can't get the orange-juice down, and so it's rather bad for the dress and complexion.'", "'I thought you wouldn't understand me,", "'a romance is -- well, there's champagne in it, and cigarettes, to begin with.'", "'Do you mind telling me what a heroine is?", "'A heroine? oh, any doll can be a heroine. I felt all the time the heroines were all just like me. They were either very good or very wicked, and I'", "'I should think it would be more uncomfortable,", "'Ah, but then you see you haven't any sentiment about you,", "'you were talking of Master Archie just now. I rather like that boy, do you know. I believe I could make something of him if he would only let me.'", "'I like him for that. I fancy a duke or a guardsman must be something like him; they all had just his wicked black eyes and long restless fingers. It wouldn't be quite so dull if he would notice me a little; but he never will!'", "'There's hardly time for him to make a real heroine of me before that. How I wish he would! I shouldn't care how he did it, or what came of it. I'", "'Say that again, my dainty little lady; say it again!", "'and, if you really mean it, perhaps the old Sausage-Glutton can manage it for you. He's done more wonderful things than that in his time, I can tell you.'", "'You won't like it -- you won't, really!'", "'he's a bad old man; he ruined a very promising young dancing nigger only the other day, unhinged him so that he will never hook on any more.'", "'and they don't mean any harm by it; it's only their high spirits. And whatever you say, I'", "'you mean well, no doubt, but pray leave this gentleman and me to settle our own affairs. Can you really get Master Archie to take some notice of me, sir?", "'and romantic, and -- and just the least bit wicked, too?'", "'You shall be the very wickedest heroine in any nursery in the world,", "'Oh, dear me, how you will enjoy yourself!'", "'I put myself quite in your hands -- I leave everything to you.'", "'that's a brave little beauty. It's a bargain, then? To-morrow afternoon the fun will begin, and then -- my springs and wheels -- what a time you will have of it! He, he! You look out for Archibald!'", "'can't you do anything to help her?'", "'But I never gave him leave to meddle with me,", "'Have you got sawdust or bran inside you, or what?", "'only the bellows I squeak with, and wire. But why?'", "'I don't mind for myself so much, but I should like to prevent any harm from coming to her. I'll remember.'", "'You didn't believe what the old man on the clock told you about me, did you? I'", "'I've got the dolls, but it's dull here somehow. Can't you come and help me to play, Archie?'", "'and you know you always make a fuss when I do play with you. Look at last time!'", "'Ah, but then you played at being a slave-driver, Archie, and you made me sell you my old black Dinah for a slave, and then you tied her up and whipped her. I didn't like that game! But if you'll stay this time, I won't mind what else you do!'", "'Girls don't know how to play with dolls, and that's a fact,", "'I could get more fun out of that dolls", "'if you won't break anything. I'll do just what you tell me.'", "'Very well then, here goes; let's see who you've got. I say, who's this in the swell dress?'", "'I wonder if I could make him fall desperately in love with me!", "'Ah, if I could only speak -- but perhaps I shall presently. I'", "'That's Ethelinda, Archie -- isn't she pretty?'", "'she's like that Eve de Something we saw at Drury Lane -- we'll have her, and there's that chap in the fool's dress, we may want him. Now we'r", "'You leave that to me. I've an idea, something much better than your silly tea-parties.'", "'Why doesn't he tell that child to go?", "'m the king, and this is your maid of honour, the beautiful Lady Ethelinda, see?'", "'I think I ought to have been the queen!", "'I'll tell you something. This maid of honour of yours doesn't like you (don't say she does, now; I'", "'he knows exactly how I feel!'", "'Do you really think it's that, Archie?", "'it's just what I was afraid of before you came in.'", "'That's it. Look out for a kind of glare in her eye when I pay you any attention. (How does Your Majesty do? Well, I hope.) There, didn't you see it? Well, that's jealousy, that is. She hates you like anything!'", "'Oh, well, if you know better than I do, you can finish it for yourself. I'", "'No, no; do stay. I like it. I'll be good after this!'", "\"You're a traitor, and we'd like nothing better than seeing your guts spilled,", "\"That paper you swiped was marked top secret. But we don't get many men with your background -- cop, tinhorn, fighter -- who have brains enough for our work. So you're bound for Mars, rather than the Mercury mines. If...\"", "\"Then who cares? You're just lucky enough to be alive.\"", "\"And what makes you think I'm going to be a spy for Security?\"", "\"Why not, Gordon? You've been a spy for a yellow scandal sheet. Why not for us?\"", "\"Been here dozens of times, myself. Risking your life just to go into Marsport. Why Congress doesn't clean it up, I'll never know!\"", "\"Notorious -- worst place on Mars. Take it from me, brother, that's something! Even the cops are afraid to go in there. See it? There, to your left!\"", "\"I'll give you five minutes to get into coveralls and helmet and out through the airlock.\"", "\"You don't have to puncture my seal. You're in.\"", "\"come on down. He's alone, anyhow. What's pushing, stranger?\"", "\"and a government allotment that'll last me two weeks in the dome. I figure on making it last six here, and don't let my being a firster give you hot palms. My brother was Lanny Gordon!\"", "\"Then you're looking at him, cobber. Sleep on the floor, want a bunk, squat with four, or room and duchess to yourself?\"", "\"All yours, cobber, while your crackle's blue.\"", "\"What good would it do you? Got a different way here, we have. One credit a week, and you get Mother Corey's word nobody busts in. And it sticks, cobber -- one way or the other.\"", "\"Eh? Oh. Eat. There's a place about ten blocks back. Cobber, stop teasing me! With elections coming up, and the boys loaded with vote money back in town -- with a deck of cheaters like that -- you want to eat?\"", "\u201chave you never had any other diversions at the Bastile than those at which I assisted during the two or three visits I have had the honor to pay you?\u201d", "\u201cbut I take them continually, monseigneur.\u201d", "\u201cOh, to be sure! And these diversions?\u201d", "\u201cNo, not visits. Visits are not frequent at the Bastile.\u201d", "\u201cEven on the part of your society?\u201d", "\u201cWhat do you term my society -- the prisoners?\u201d", "\u201cOh, no! -- your prisoners, indeed! I know well it is you who visit them, and not they you. By your society, I mean, my dear Baisemeaux, the society of which you are a member.\u201d", "\u201cNo, you don\u2019t understand me, my dear M. Baisemeaux; you don\u2019t understand me. I do not at all mean to speak of society in general, but of a particular society -- of the society, in a word -- to which you are affiliated.\u201d", "\u201cYes, affiliated, undoubtedly,", "\u201cAre you not a member of a secret society, my dear M. Baisemeaux?\u201d", "\u201cConsider, now, don\u2019t deny it.\u201d", "\u201cListen to me, my dear M. Baisemeaux; I say yes, you say no; one of us two necessarily says what is true, and the other, it inevitably follows, what is false.\u201d", "\u201cWell, we shall come to an understanding presently.\u201d", "\u201cNow drink your glass of muscat, dear Monsieur de Baisemeaux,", "\u201cWhat the devil! you look quite scared.\u201d", "\u201cNo, no; not the least in the world; oh, no.\u201d", "\u201cOh! be sure beforehand that I shall not understand anything.\u201d", "\u201cIf, on the contrary, you are one of the members of this society, you will immediately answer me -- yes or no.\u201d", "\u201cYou will agree, dear Monsieur de Baisemeaux,", "\u201cthat it is evident a man cannot be a member of a society, it is evident that he cannot enjoy the advantages it offers to the affiliated, without being himself bound to certain little services.\u201d", "\u201cI should not like to say absolutely.\u201d", "\u201cThere is an engagement entered into by all the governors and captains of fortresses affiliated to the order.", "\u201cGo on, dear M. d\u2019Herblay: go on,", "\u201cThe aforesaid captain or governor of a fortress shall allow to enter, when need shall arise, and on demand of the prisoner, a confessor affiliated to the order.", "\u201cIs not that the text of the agreement?", "\u201cAh! well, you begin to understand, I think.\u201d", "\u201cdo not trifle so with my unhappy mind! I find myself as nothing in your hands, if you have the malignant desire to draw from me the little secrets of my administration.\u201d", "\u201cOh! by no means; pray undeceive yourself, dear M. Baisemeaux; it is not the little secrets of your administration, but those of your conscience that I aim at.\u201d", "\u201cWell, then, my conscience be it, dear M. d\u2019Herblay. But have some consideration for the situation I am in, which is no ordinary one.\u201d", "\u201cIt is no ordinary one, my dear monsieur,", "\u201cif you are a member of this society; but it is a quite natural one if free from all engagement. You are answerable only to the king.\u201d", "\u201cWell, monsieur, well! I obey only the king, and whom else would you have a French nobleman obey?\u201d", "\u201cfor a French nobleman, for a prelate of France, to hear a man of your mark express himself so loyally, dear De Baisemeaux, and having heard you to believe no more than you do.\u201d", "\u201cI have no longer any doubt that such a man as you, monsieur,", "\u201cdoes not faithfully serve the masters whom he voluntarily chose for himself.\u201d", "\u201cYes, masters, I said.\u201d", "\u201cMonsieur d\u2019Herblay, you are still jesting, are you not?\u201d", "\u201cOh, yes! I understand that it is a more difficult position to have several masters than one; but the embarrassment is owing to you, my dear Baisemeaux, and I am not the cause of it.\u201d", "\u201cbut what are you doing? You are leaving the table?\u201d", "\u201cBut you are behaving very strangely towards me, monseigneur.\u201d", "\u201cI am behaving strangely -- how do you make that out?\u201d", "\u201cHave you sworn, then, to put me to the torture?\u201d", "\u201cNo, I should be sorry to do so.\u201d", "\u201cBecause I have no longer anything to do here; and, indeed, I have duties to fulfil elsewhere.\u201d", "\u201cDuties, so late as this?\u201d", "\u201cThe confessor affiliated to the order,", "\u201cyou, monseigneur, the confessor of the order!\u201d", "\u201cYes, I; but we have nothing to unravel together, seeing that you are not one of the affiliated.\u201d", "\u201cAnd I understand that, not being so, you refuse to comply with its command.\u201d", "\u201cMonseigneur, I beseech you, condescend to hear me.\u201d", "\u201cMonseigneur, I do not say that I have nothing to do with the society.\u201d", "\u201cI say not that I refuse to obey.\u201d", "\u201cNevertheless, M. de Baisemeaux, what has passed wears very much the air of resistance.\u201d", "\u201cOh, no! monseigneur, no; I only wished to be certain.\u201d", "\u201cVery good. I like you better thus, monsieur,", "\u201chaving received no notice, I was very far from expecting it.\u201d", "\u201cBecause, monseigneur, there is at present in the Bastile no prisoner ill.\u201d", "\u201chere is your servant, who wishes to speak with you;", "\u201cthey are bringing you the doctor\u2019s return.\u201d", "\u201cthat you told me everybody was well in your hotel, M. de Baisemeaux?", "\u201cI think that there is in the article, \u2018on the prisoner\u2019s demand.\u2019\u201d", "\u201cBut see what it is they want with you now.\u201d", "\u201cCan you not leave me in peace for ten minutes?\u201d", "\u201cthe sick man, No. 12, has commissioned the turnkey to request you to send him a confessor.\u201d", "\u201cthat is your business. I am not the governor of the Bastile.\u201d", "\u201ctell the prisoner that his request is granted.", "\u201cOh! monseigneur, monseigneur,", "\u201chow could I have suspected! -- how could I have foreseen this!\u201d", "\u201cWho requested you to suspect, and who besought you to foresee?", "\u201cThe order suspects; the order knows; the order foresees -- is that not enough?\u201d", "\u201cI? -- nothing at all. I am nothing but a poor priest, a simple confessor. Have I your orders to go and see the sufferer?\u201d", "\u201cOh, monseigneur, I do not order; I pray you to go.\u201d", "\"Verily I fear lest my kingdom be lost when I die, for that I have no son to succeed me.", "\"O thou the Wazir, of a truth I fear for my son, Kamar al-Zaman, the shifts and accidents which befal man and fain would I marry him in my life-time.", "\"O King, know thou that marriage is one of the most honourable of moral actions, and thou wouldst indeed do well and right to marry thy son in thy lifetime, ere thou make him Sultan.", "\"Hither with my son Kamar al-Zaman;", "\"of a truth I desire to marry thee and rejoice in thee during my lifetime.", "\"O my father, wedlock is a thing whereto I will never consent; no, not though I drink the cup of death.", "\"O my son, wilt thou not hearken to me?", "\"O my father, how should I not hearken to thee, seeing that Allah commandeth me to obey thee and not gain-say thee?", "\"O my son, know that I desire to marry thee and rejoice in thee whilst yet I live, and make thee King over my realm, before my death.", "\"O thou the Wazir! tell me how I shall deal with my son in the matter of marriage.\"", "\"How durst thou answer me on this wise before my captains and soldiers? But hitherto none hath chastised thee. Knowest thou not that this deed thou hast done were a disgrace to him had it been done by the meanest of my subjects?", "\"Allah curse marriage and marriageable and married women, the traitresses all! Would I had hearkened to my father and accepted a wife! Had I so done it had been better for me than this jail.", "\"Know thou, O Wazir, that thou and thou only west the cause of all this that hath come to pass between me and my son by the advice thou west pleased to devise; and so what dost thou counsel me to do now?", "\"O King, leave thy son in limbo for the space of fifteen days: then summon him to thy presence and bid him wed; and assuredly he shall not gainsay thee again.", "\"Mother got ahold of a load of snow, and sent me out to contact a big pusher. Coming back, the goons picked me up and gave me the job on you. Hey, Mother!\"", "\"Izzy and Bruce. Didn't know you'd met, cobbers. Contact, Izzy?\"", "\"Same old angles, eh? Get enough to do the job, they mug you. Stop halfway, and the halls are closed to you. Pretty soon, they'll be trick-proof, anyhow; they're changing over to electric eyes. Eh, you haven't forgotten me, cobber?\"", "\"Enough to buy a corporal's job, pay for your suit, and maybe get by,", "\"Thanks, Mother, but I'll be staying inside the dome, I guess.\"", "\"Now, with what I get from the pusher, I can buy off that hot spot on the police blotter. I can go in the dome and walk around, just like you.", "\"I'm getting old. They'll be calling me 'Grandmother' pretty soon. So I'm turning my Chicken House over to my granddaughter and I'm going honest. Want a room?\"", "\"I've checked through his tax forms, and they're all in order. We'll confirm officially, of course.\"", "\"And time's valuable, ain't it? Ah, yes.", "\"And you'll want suits. Isaacs? Good, here's your receipt. And you, Corporal Gordon. Right. Get your suits one floor down, end of the hall. And report in eight tomorrow morning!\"", "\"Hope they don't give us too bad territory, gov'nor,", "\"Pickings are always a little lean on the first few beats, but you can work some fairly well.\"", "\"Cripes! Hope they've got a few cheap pushers around that don't pay protection direct to the captain. You take that store; I'll go in this one!\"", "\"New cop, eh? No wonder Gable collected yesterday, ahead of time. All right, you can look at my books. I've been paying fifty, but you'll have to wait until Friday.\"", "\"That damned cop before us! He really tapped them! And we can't take less, so I guess we gotta wait until Friday.\"", "\"He may have a concussion. I've got the man who held you up.\"", "\"I suppose it can't be helped, though; you're new, Gordon. Hennessy, get the corpse to the morgue, and mark it down as a robbery attempt. I'm going to have to book you and your men, Mr. Jurgens!\"", "\"about the Mayor's campaign, or anything else,", "\"Fifty per cent of the take to the Orphan's and Widow's fund. Better make it more than Gable turned in, if you want to get a better beat.\"", "\"Widows and Orphans sure appreciate a good man,", "\"I was kind of worried about you, Gordon, but you got a nice touch. One of my new boys -- Isaacs, you know him -- was out checking up after you, and the dopes seem to like you.\"", "\"Special meeting tomorrow. We gotta see about getting out a good vote. Election only three weeks away.\"", "\"But it don't mean we can't show how well we like the Mayor. Just remember, he got us our jobs! Now I figure we can all kick in a little to help his campaign. I'm going to start it off with five thousand credits, two thousand of them right now.\"", "\"Freitag, what about you? Fine, fine!\"", "\"I guess that's all, boys. Thanks from the Mayor. And go on home.... Oh, Fell, Gordon, Lativsky -- stick around. I've got some overtime for you, since you need extra money. The boys out in Ward Three are shorthanded. Afraid I'll have to order you out there!\"", "\"Rough, eh? But I hear robbery went down on your beat last night. Fine work, Gordon. We need men like you. Hate to do it, but I'm afraid you'll have to take the next shift at Main and Broad, directing traffic. The usual man is sick, and you're the only one I can trust with the job!\"", "\"What is now thy state, O my son?", "\"I am well and like to recover, if such be the will of Allah Almighty at this time.", "\"Kill two of these for him every day, one at dawn of day and the other at fall of day.", "\"How is it with thee now, O my son?", "\"Thanks be to Allah for recovery!", "\"may the Almighty requite thee thy kindness to me.", "\"O my master, in Allah's name, walk in and I will wash thy body.", "\"This is doing injury to the keeper's rights.", "\"The master overwhelmeth us with his favours!", "\"Thou art he whom the Almighty vouchsafed to me and made the cause of my cure!", "\"and tell us the cause of thy coming to this city and whence thou art. Thy face showeth signs of gentle breeding.", "\"Tell me first how thou camest to fall in with me,", "\"and after I will tell thee my story.", "\"As for that, I found thee lying on the rubbish-heap by the door of the fire-house, as I went to my work near the morning, and knew not who had thrown thee there. So I carried thee home with me; and this is all my tale.", "\"Glory to Him who quickeneth the bones, though they be rotten! Indeed, O my brother, thou hast not done good save to one worthy of it, and thou shalt presently gather its fruitage.", "\"Weep not, but rather praise Allah for safety and recovery.", "\"How far is it hence to Damascus?", "\"Praised be Allah for accord, and we have said the last word!", "\"Grieve not, for at this gate we must all go in.", "\"Allah make weal thy lot, O my son! Surely He will compensate us with His favours and cause our mourning to cease. What sayst thou, O my son, about our walking abroad to view Damascus and cheer thy spirits?", "\"I wonder to whom belong all these chattels and camels and stuffs!", "\"O my son, we hardly believed that thy health had returned;[FN#238] so take heart and do not weep, for I fear a relapse for thee.", "\"Meseemeth thou yearnest for thy native land?", "\"and I can no longer tarry here; so I will commend thee to Allah's care and set out with these folk and journey with them, little by little, till I come to my mother land.", "\"And I with thee; for of a truth I cannot bear to part with thee. I have done thee kindly service and I mean to complete it by tending thee on thy travel.", "\"Allah abundantly requite thee for me!", "\"This is for thee to ride by the way; and, when thou art weary of riding, thou canst dismount and walk.", "\"May Allah bless thee and aid me to requite thee! for verily thou hast dealt with me more lovingly than one with his brother.", "\"This charmer dazzleth men's wits but she is in squalid condition, and whether she be of the people of this city or she be a stranger, I needs must have her.", "\"Tell me, O my little daughter! art thou a free woman or a slave?", "\"By thy life, do not add to my sorrows!", "\"Haply I may trust myself to this old man.", "\"By Allah, I have got my desire!", "\"There shall none be dearer to me than thou; I wish thee only to bear my daughter company by day and thou shalt go to thy brother at earliest nightfall. Or, if thou wilt, bring him over to dwell with us.", "\"O city strumpet, what is this weeping? By Allah, an thou hold not thy peace, I will beat thee to death, O thou town filth!", "\"O accursed old man, O gray beard of hell, how have I trusted thee and thou hast played me false, and now thou wouldst torture me?", "\"O lazy baggage, dost thou dare to bandy words with me?", "\"An thou hold not thy peace, I will kill thee!", "\"How couldst thou play me this trick and lure me into these bald and stony mountains, and what is thy design with me?", "\"O lazy baggage of ill omen and insolent! wilt thou bandy words with me?", "\"By the rights of my bonnet,[FN#243] if I see or hear thee weeping, I will cut out thy tongue and stuff it up thy coynte, O thou city filth!", "\"I love not one who answereth at times when I am in wrath: so henceforth give me no more of these impertinent words and I will sell thee to a good man like myself, who will do well with thee, even as I have done.", "\"Yes; whatso thou doest is right,", "'m alive (no thanks to you); and, to come back to the point -- scoundrel!'", "'will you have the goodness to tell me what right you have to this ridiculous apparition here?'", "'I call it a beastly nuisance!", "'Ever since -- since I last saw you, it's been following me about everywhere in a -- in a very annoying manner!'", "'but all I can say is that it serves you jolly well right, and I hope it will go on annoying you.'", "'Considering that you kicked me over a precipice when I wasn't looking,", "'it is ridiculous to cherish an old grudge all this time; you must see the absurdity of it yourself.'", "'I would do it for you, Barnjum. I've had it about me for six months, and I am so sick of it.'", "'but what shall we talk about? A city man like you will not care to hear about cattle and crops.'", "'I'll tell you what we will do. We will each tell the other the wildest tale we can imagine, and he who first throws doubt on the other's story shall pay him a hundred rupees.'", "'I've seen that kind of thing myself.'", "'No less than one hundred and one camels,", "'Amazing, the strength of that kite!", "'But -- well -- yes, doubtless; yes -- well -- one hundred and one camels -- and what did he do with them?'", "'it's so painful having anything in one's eye.'", "'the princess shook her head, and sprang up, clapping her hand on her eye. \"Oh dear!\" she cried, \"I've got something in my eye, and how it does smart!\"'", "'perfectly true. Well, what did the poor thing do?'", "'and then she just twisted up the corner of her headcloth and fished a hundred more of them out of the princess's eye, and popped them all into her pocket with the other.'", "'Besides, that is the end; what do you say to it?'", "'and no doubt perfectly true!'", "'I am so anxious to hear your story. I am sure it will be very interesting.'", "'Yes, I think it will,", "'My father was a very prosperous man. Five cows he had, and three yoke of oxen, and half a dozen buffaloes, and goats in abundance; but of all his possessions the thing he loved best was a mare. A well bred mare she was -- oh, a very fine mare!'", "'and you know how, in June, the air is full of dust-storms with rain at times? Well, the poor beast got dust in that wound, and what's more, with the dust some grains of wheat, and, what with the dust and the heat and the wet, that wheat sprouted and began to grow!'", "'Yes; and the next thing we knew was that there was a crop of wheat on that horse's back as big as anything you ever saw in a hundred-acre field, and we had to hire twenty men to reap it!'", "'One generally has to hire extra hands for reaping,", "'And we got four hundred maunds of wheat off that mare's back!", "'\"I haven't tasted food for a week. Oh! great master, let me have the loan of sixteen maunds of wheat from your store, and I will repay you.\"'", "'\"Certainly, neighbour,\" answered my father; \"take what you need, and repay it as you can.\"'", "'Well, he took the wheat away with him,", "'but he never repaid it, and it's a debt to this day. Sometimes I wonder whether I shall not go to law about it.'", "'The wheat is the cheaper; I'll pay you for the wheat,", "'Give me the money; or, if not that, give me at least the wheat.'", "\u201cGlory be to Him who created this youth \u2018of vile water[FN#265]\u2018! Blessed be Allah excellentest of Creators!", "\u201cThis is no mortal, \u2018this is naught save a noble angel\u2019\u201d;[FN#26", "\u201cHath Rizwan, the door-keeper of the Eden-garden, left the gate of Paradise unguarded, that this youth hath come forth?", "\u201cI am the Overseer of the market.", "\u201cKnow then, O Shaykh, that this youth is my son and I wish to hire him a shop in the bazar, that he may sit therein and learn to sell and buy and take and give, and come to ken merchants\u2019 ways and habits.", "\u201cGlory be to God who fashioned that face and perfected that figure!", "\u201cFrom the parts of Hind, O my mother; and I have come to this city to see the world and look about me.", "\u201cHonour to thee for a visitor! What goods and stuffs hast thou? Show me something handsome, fit for Kings.", "\u201cIf thou wish for handsome stuffs, I will show them to thee; for I have wares that beseem persons of every condition.", "\u201cO my son, I want somewhat costly of price and seemly to sight; brief, the best thou hast.", "\u201cThou must needs tell me for whom thou seekest it, that I may show thee goods according to the rank of the requiter.", "\u201cThou speakest sooth, O my son,", "\u201cI want somewhat for my mistress, Hayat al-Nufus, daughter of Abd al-Kadir, lord of this land and King of this country.", "\u201cThis is for the washing of thy clothes.", "\u201cThis is of that which I have brought to your country.", "\u201cWhat is the price of this dress, O perfect in qualities?", "\u201cI will take no price for it!", "\u201cWhat is thy name, O my lord?", "\u201cBy Allah this is a rare name! Therewith are Kings\u2019 sons named, and thou art in a guise of the sons of the merchants!", "\u201cOf the love my father bore me, he gave me this name, but a name signifieth naught;", "\u201cO my son, take the price of thy goods.", "\u201cO my dear one, Truth (I would have thee know) is the greatest of all things and thou hadst not dealt thus generously by me but for a special reason: so tell me thy case and thy secret thought; belike thou hast some wish to whose winning I may help thee.", "\u201cSeek of me the daughter of a Wazir or an Emir, and I will grant thy request; but it may not be that one should mount from earth to heaven at one bound.", "\u201cO my mother, thou art a woman of wit and knowest how things go. Say me doth a man, when his head irketh him, bind up his hand?", "\u201cAllah upon thee, O my mother, take pity on my strangerhood and the streaming of my tears.", "\u201cBy Allah, O my son, thy words rend my heart, but my hand hath no cunning wherewith to help thee.", "\u201cI beseech thee of thy favour, carry her a letter and kiss her hands for me.", "\u201cWrite what thou wilt and I will bear it to her.", "\u201cDivide this among the slave-girls.", "\u201cThere is no help but that thou accept of it.", "\u201cO my lady, I have brought thee somewhat the like whereof is not with the people of our city, and it cometh from a handsome young man, than whom there is not a goodlier on earth\u2019s face!", "\u201cO my nurse, and whence cometh the youth?", "\u201cFrom the parts of Hind; and he hath given me this dress of gold brocade, embroidered with pearls and gems and worth the Kingdom of Chosro\u00ebs and C\u00e6sar.", "\u201cO my nurse, cometh this dress from him or from another?\u201d[FN#26", "\u201cIs this trader of our town or a stranger?", "\u201cHe is a foreigner, O my lady, newly come hither; and by Allah he hath servants and slaves; and he is fair of face, symmetrical of form, well mannered, open-handed and open-hearted, never saw I a goodlier than he, save thyself.", "\u201cIndeed this is an extraordinary thing, that a dress like this, which money cannot buy, should be in the hands of a merchant! What price did he set on it, O my nurse?", "\u201cBy Allah, this is indeed marvellous generosity and wondrous munificence! But I fear the issue of his affair, lest haply[FN#270] he be brought to necessity. Why didst thou not ask him, O my nurse, if he had any desire, that we might fulfil it for him?", "\u201cO my lady, I did ask him, and he said to me, \u2018I have indeed a desire\u2019; but he would not tell me what it was. However, he gave me this letter and said, \u2018Carry it to the Princess.\u2019", "\u201cSoftly, O my lady! What is there in his letter to trouble thee thus? Is it aught but a memorial containing his complaint to thee of poverty or oppression, from which he hopeth to be relieved by thy favour?", "\u201cI fear lest he presume, if I write to him", "\u201cAnd pray what is he and what is his rank that he should presume to us? Indeed, we write him but to the intent that his presumption may be cut off and his fear magnified.", "\u201cRead thine answer and know that when she perused thy paper she was wroth with exceeding wrath; but I soothed her and spake her fair, till she consented to write thee a reply.", "\u201cO my son, Allah never cause thine eyes to weep nor thy heart to mourn! What can be more gracious than that she should answer thy letter when thou hast done what thou diddest?", "\u201cWrite and I warrant I\u2019ll bring thee an answer. By Allah, I will assuredly venture my life to win for thee thy wish, though I die to pleasure thee!", "\u201cNeeds must I bring thee to thy desire, despite the noses of thy foes.", "\u201cWhat is this, O my nurse? Here are we in a correspondence and thou coming and going! Indeed, I fear lest the matter get wind and we be disgraced.", "\u201cHow so, O my lady? Who dare speak such word?", "\u201cVerily, this is a calamity which is fallen upon us, and I know not whence this young man came to us!", "\u201cO my lady, Allah upon thee, write him another letter; but be rough with him this time and say to him, \u2018An thou write me another word after this, I will have thy head struck off.\u2019", "\u201cO my nurse, I am assured that the matter will not end on such wise; \u2019twere better to break off this exchange of letters; and, except the puppy take warning by my previous threats, I will strike off his head.", "\u201cThen write him a letter and give him to know this condition.", "\u201cO my mother, what shall I say, seeing that she doth but threaten me and redoubleth in hard-heartedness and aversion?", "\u201cWrite her a letter of what thou wilt: I will protect thee; nor let thy heart be cast down, for needs must I bring you twain together.", "\u201cThis is for the washing of thy hands.", "\u201cO my lady, he is gone forth a-hunting and sporting.", "\u201cO my lady, whither went those noble steps?", "\u201cAnd could no one do thine errand?", "\u201cNo, for I went to acquaint him of that which hath befallen me with yonder cur of a merchant, so he might lay hands on him and on all the merchants of his bazar and crucify them over their shops nor suffer a single foreign merchant to tarry in our town.", "\u201cYes, but I found him absent a-hunting and sporting and now I await his return.", "\u201cI take refuge with Allah, the All-hearing, the All-knowing! Praised be He! O my lady, thou art the most sensible of women and how couldst thou think of telling the King these fond words, which it behoveth none to publish?", "\u201cSuppose thou had found the King in his palace and told him all this tale and he had sent after the merchants and commanded to hang them over their shops, the folk would have seen them hanging and asked the reason and it would have been answered them, \u2018They sought to seduce the King\u2019s daughter.\u2019", "'that I'd sooner see her married to after to-day. You'r", "'I never saw Bingo do such a thing before in his life!'", "'You see, he was always a sensitive, excitable animal, and perhaps the -- the sudden joy of his return has gone to his head -- upset him, you know.'", "'but I always thought that it was half the right ear that Bingo had lost?'", "'Left, eh? Well, I thought myself it was the right.'", "'I know it because I remember so particularly thinking how odd it was that it should be the left ear, and not the right!", "'everything seems odd when you come to think at all about it.'", "'will you tell Aunt Mary and Mr. Travers, and -- and me, how it was you came to find Bingo? Mr. Travers is quite anxious to hear all about it.'", "'There's a foreign-looking man staring over the hedge,", "'Bingo always did hate foreigners.'", "'the dog won't bite you -- unless there's a hole in the hedge anywhere.'", "'he is not enrage at me. May I ask, is it pairmeet to speak wiz Misterre Vezzered?'", "'Can I be of any service to you?'", "'you can restore to me ze poodle vich I see zere!'", "'Oh, I think you are under a mistake -- that dog is not mine.'", "'that poodle belongs to the gentleman over there.", "'ze poodle is my poodle! And I was direct to you -- it is your name on ze carte!", "'You must allow me to know my own dog, sir,", "'Why, I've had him from a pup. Bingo, old boy, you know your master, don't you?'", "'ere, and ven I arrive, I see my poodle in ze garden before me!'", "'it's all very well to say that, but how can you prove it? I give you my word that the dog belongs to me! You must prove your claim, eh, Travers?'", "'mere assertion is no proof: it's oath against oath, at present.'", "'I don't like to see dogs taught to play the fool -- there's none of that nonsense about him, sir!'", "'Ah, remark him well, then. Azor, mon chou, danse donc un peu!'", "'he's dancing along like a d -- -- d mountebank! But it's my Bingo for all that!'", "'You are not convince? You shall see more. Azor, ici! Pour Beesmarck, Azor!", "'Where could Bingo have picked up so much French!", "'Upon my word, I don't know what to think. It can't be that that's not my Bingo after all -- I'll never believe it!'", "'I'll let you in, and we can discuss the matter quietly.", "'as offer me money for ze dog! He agrees zat it is to me, you see? Ver well zen, zere is no more to be said!'", "'Why, Weatherhead, have you lost faith too, then?", "'m afraid I've been deceived by the extraordinary likeness. I don't think, on reflection, that that is Bingo!'", "'I thought from the first that was never my Bingo. Why, Bingo would make two of that beast!'", "'Don't look so cut up about it, my boy,", "'you did your best -- there was a sort of likeness, to any one who didn't know Bingo as we did.'", "'but I find zis upon my dog -- it is not to me. Suffer me to restore it viz many compliments.'", "'This was on the dog when you stopped that fellow, didn't you say?", "'that's the wrong poodle beyond a doubt, but when he's found, he's wearing the right dog's collar! Now how do you account for that?'", "'But look here, my dear Weatherhead,", "'You must excuse me to-night, Travers,", "'you see, just now it's rather a sore subject for me -- and I'", "'Yes, we'll go into it to-morrow, Travers,", "'and then -- hullo, why, there's that confounded Frenchman again!'", "'Once more I return to apologise,", "'What the dooce did he mean by that, eh?", "'Except one Algernon Weatherhead, Esq., eh?", "'look here! Has the dog damaged any of your shrubs?'", "'quite the reverse. Let's all go indoors now; it's getting so cold!'", "'See, there is a shrub or something uprooted!", "'You hear what she says? Can't you speak out? Is that our Bingo?'", "'yes ... that's Bingo ... misfortune ... shoot him ... quite an accident!'", "\u201cWhat was the matter with you, Hermine? and why were you so affected at that story, or rather fable, which the count related?\u201d", "\u201cBecause I have been in such shocking spirits all the evening, my friend,", "\u201cyou cannot make me believe that; on the contrary, you were in excellent spirits when you arrived at the count\u2019s. M. Danglars was disagreeable, certainly, but I know how much you care for his ill-humor. Someone has vexed you; I will allow no one to annoy you.\u201d", "\u201cYou are deceived, Lucien, I assure you,", "\u201cand what I have told you is really the case, added to the ill-humor you remarked, but which I did not think it worth while to allude to.\u201d", "\u201cShe practiced all the evening, and then went to bed,", "\u201cYet I think I hear her piano.\u201d", "\u201cIt is Mademoiselle Louise d\u2019Armilly, who is playing while Mademoiselle Danglars is in bed.\u201d", "\u201cMy dear M. Lucien,", "\u201cyou are always complaining that Eug\u00e9nie will not address a word to you.\u201d", "\u201cI am not the only one who makes similar complaints, I think I heard Morcerf say that he could not extract a word from his betrothed.\u201d", "\u201cyet I think this will all pass off, and that you will one day see her enter your study.\u201d", "\u201cAt least that of the minister.\u201d", "\u201cTo ask for an engagement at the Opera. Really, I never saw such an infatuation for music; it is quite ridiculous for a young lady of fashion.\u201d", "\u201clet her come, with your consent and that of the baron, and we will try and give her an engagement, though we are very poor to pay such talent as hers.\u201d", "\u201cI do not require you any longer.\u201d", "\u201canswer candidly, \u2014 something vexes you \u2014 is it not so?\u201d", "\u201cgood-evening, M. Debray.\u201d", "\u201cRead me something, M. Debray,", "\u201cbut you will tire yourself, baroness, by such late hours, and M. Debray lives some distance from here.\u201d", "\u201cI assure you I have no desire to sleep, and that I have a thousand things to tell you this evening, which you must listen to, even though you slept while hearing me.\u201d", "\u201cI am at your service, madame,", "\u201cMy dear M. Debray,", "\u201cdo not kill yourself tonight listening to the follies of Madame Danglars, for you can hear them as well tomorrow; but I claim tonight and will devote it, if you will allow me, to talk over some serious matters with my wife.\u201d", "\u201cDo not think I wish to turn you out, my dear Debray,", "\u201coh, no, not at all. An unexpected occurrence forces me to ask my wife to have a little conversation with me; it is so rarely I make such a request, I am sure you cannot grudge it to me.\u201d", "\u201chow easily these husbands, whom we ridicule, gain an advantage over us.\u201d", "\u201cthat you are improving? Generally you are only rude, but tonight you are brutal.\u201d", "\u201cIt is because I am in a worse humor than usual,", "\u201cAnd what have I to do with your ill-humor?", "\u201cdo these things concern me? Keep your ill-humor at home in your money boxes, or, since you have clerks whom you pay, vent it upon them.\u201d", "\u201cAnd pray who are the persons who exhaust your fortune? Explain yourself more clearly, I beg, sir.\u201d", "\u201cOh, make yourself easy! \u2014 I am not speaking riddles, and you will soon know what I mean. The people who exhaust my fortune are those who draw out 700,000 francs in the course of an hour.\u201d", "\u201cI do not understand you, sir,", "\u201cYou understand me perfectly, on the contrary,", "\u201cbut, if you will persist, I will tell you that I have just lost 700,000 francs upon the Spanish loan.\u201d", "\u201cam I responsible for this loss?\u201d", "\u201cIs it my fault you have lost 700,000 francs?\u201d", "\u201cCertainly it is not mine.\u201d", "\u201cI tell you I will not hear cash named; it is a style of language I never heard in the house of my parents or in that of my first husband.\u201d", "\u201cOh, I can well believe that, for neither of them was worth a penny.\u201d", "\u201cWell, this surprises me, for I thought you took the liveliest interest in all my affairs!\u201d", "\u201cI? What could put such an idea into your head?\u201d", "\u201cAh? \u2014 what next?\u201d", "\u201cMost assuredly.\u201d", "\u201cI should like to know upon what occasion?\u201d", "\u201cWhen are you coming to the point?", "\u201cPatience, madame, I am coming to it.\u201d", "\u201cThat\u2019s fortunate.\u201d", "\u201cWell, sir, and what then?\u201d", "\u201cAh, yes, it was just after this that you spoiled everything.\u201d", "\u201cWell, since I gave you a fourth of my gains, I think you owe me a fourth of my losses; the fourth of 700,000 francs is 175,000 francs.\u201d", "\u201cWhat you say is absurd, and I cannot see why M. Debray\u2019s name is mixed up in this affair.\u201d", "\u201cBecause if you do not possess the 175,000 francs I reclaim, you must have lent them to your friends, and M. Debray is one of your friends.\u201d", "\u201cwill you dare to tell me you did not know what you now reproach me with?\u201d", "\u201cOh, this is too much,", "\u201cA probable thing!\u201d", "\u201cWhy not? Who ever heard of such an occurrence as this? \u2014 a false telegraphic despatch \u2014 it is almost impossible for wrong signals to be made as they were in the last two telegrams. It was done on purpose for me \u2014 I am sure of it.\u201d", "\u201care you not aware that the man employed there was dismissed, that they talked of going to law with him, that orders were issued to arrest him and that this order would have been put into execution if he had not escaped by flight, which proves that he was either mad or guilty? It was a mistake.\u201d", "\u201cYes, which made fools laugh, which caused the minister to have a sleepless night, which has caused the minister\u2019s secretaries to blacken several sheets of paper, but which has cost me 700,000 francs.\u201d", "\u201cif all this is, as you say, caused by M. Debray, why, instead of going direct to him, do you come and tell me of it? Why, to accuse the man, do you address the woman?\u201d", "\u201cDo I know M. Debray? \u2014 do I wish to know him? \u2014 do I wish to know that he gives advice? \u2014 do I wish to follow it? \u2014 do I speculate? No; you do all this, not I.\u201d", "\u201cM. de Villefort! \u2014 What do you mean?\u201d", "\u201cSeein\u2019 how I\u2019m dressed, I reckon maybe I better arrive down from St. Louis or Cincinnati, or some other big place. Go for the steamboat, Huckleberry; we\u2019ll come down to the village on her.\u201d", "\u201cWher\u2019 you bound for, young man?\u201d", "\u201cFor the steamboat; going to Orleans.\u201d", "\u201cHold on a minute, my servant \u2019ll he\u2019p you with them bags. Jump out and he\u2019p the gentleman, Adolphus", "\u201cWhen I first see you I says to myself, \u2018It\u2019s Mr. Wilks, sure, and he come mighty near getting here in time.\u2019 But then I says again, \u2018No, I reckon it ain\u2019t him, or else he wouldn\u2019t be paddling up the river.\u2019 You ain\u2019t him, are you?\u201d", "\u201cWhy do you reckon Harvey don\u2019t come? Wher\u2019 does he live?\u201d", "\u201cOh, he lives in England \u2014 Sheffield \u2014 preaches there \u2014 hasn\u2019t ever been in this country. He hasn\u2019t had any too much time \u2014 and besides he mightn\u2019t a got the letter at all, you know.\u201d", "\u201cToo bad, too bad he couldn\u2019t a lived to see his brothers, poor soul. You going to Orleans, you say?\u201d", "\u201cYes, but that ain\u2019t only a part of it. I\u2019m going in a ship, next Wednesday, for Ryo Janeero, where my uncle lives.\u201d", "\u201cIt\u2019s a pretty long journey. But it\u2019ll be lovely; wisht I was a-going. Is Mary Jane the oldest? How old is the others?\u201d", "\u201cMary Jane\u2019s nineteen, Susan\u2019s fifteen, and Joanna\u2019s about fourteen \u2014 that\u2019s the one that gives herself to good works and has a hare-lip.\u201d", "\u201cPoor things! to be left alone in the cold world so.\u201d", "\u201cWhat did you want to walk all the way up to the steamboat for?\u201d", "\u201cBecause she\u2019s a big Orleans boat, and I was afeard she mightn\u2019t stop there. When they\u2019re deep they won\u2019t stop for a hail. A Cincinnati boat will, but this is a St. Louis one.\u201d", "\u201cOh, yes, pretty well off. He had houses and land, and it\u2019s reckoned he left three or four thousand in cash hid up som\u2019ers.\u201d", "\u201cWell, it\u2019s all terrible sad; but we\u2019ve all got to go, one time or another. So what we want to do is to be prepared; then we\u2019re all right.\u201d", "\u201cYes, sir, it\u2019s the best way. Ma used to always say that.\u201d", "\u201cNow hustle back, right off, and fetch the duke up here, and the new carpet-bags. And if he\u2019s gone over to t\u2019other side, go over there and git him. And tell him to git himself up regardless. Shove along, now.\u201d", "\u201cHow are you on the deef and dumb, Bilgewater?\u201d", "\u201cIf gentlemen kin afford to pay a dollar a mile apiece to be took on and put off in a yawl, a steamboat kin afford to carry \u2019em, can\u2019t it?\u201d", "\u201cKin any of you gentlemen tell me wher\u2019 Mr. Peter Wilks lives?", "\u201cI\u2019m sorry sir, but the best we can do is to tell you where he did live yesterday evening.\u201d", "\u201cAlas, alas, our poor brother \u2014 gone, and we never got to see him; oh, it\u2019s too, too hard!\u201d", "'seek their father's wits in the place where he had lost them.", "'Carry this comb and the collar to every court until you find a lady beautiful enough to unlock the collar, and a man good enough to draw the comb from its case. When you have discovered these, you can return whence you came.'", "'how that will help us to bring back our lost prince and princess.'", "'I must have something about me which frightens all beasts,", "'Prince, will you trust me whatever happens, knowing that my heart is yours, and as I feel that yours is mine? But, beware, for if you give the smallest sign of fear, when the tent is opened, you will lose me for ever.'", "'Quick! prince! quick! the time is flying, comb me at once or I shall vanish from your sight.", "'Enough, so far you have obeyed my orders. Now burn my skin.'", "'Ah, that I can never do,", "'Then we shall both rue it for ever,", "'for I can only be the wife of him who will burn my skin.", "'Ah, fool that I was! This must be the skin she wished me to burn,", "'I can no longer live without my beloved fox; help me, I entreat you, to find him.'", "'for indeed I have repented of it long ago, and come to the aid of your father who has been sorely smitten by that mad archduke from whom you have just saved me! There is no time to pursue him,", "'From the moment that the king knew of my cruelty to your sister,", "'We must return and seek him, and also look for my sister.'", "'Why do you waste the few moments that are left you in this manner?", "'Place the collar you wear round his neck, and he will be cured at once. But you must act quickly.'", "'But I have not got it, I lost it in the forest!", "'The collar is lost! The collar is lost!'", "'Here is one that I picked up among some cinders, before that madman shot me -- perhaps it may be the one you want, or, at all events, it may do as well.", "'The thought of the sufferings that the enchanted nymph may be undergoing tortures me!'", "'They are far worse than you can imagine,", "'but if you still possess your comb, you may yet relieve her of them. Ah! that is well,", "\"Perhaps we had better sit down and I will try to make it understandable.\"", "\"Yes, they are splendid, I know,", "\"But will you please explain to me how television works?\"", "\"Well golly Moses, Mr. Wicker,", "\"it seems to be pretty complicated to go into.\"", "\"Is it not? Very complicated. You probably would not be able to describe to me the details of how the radio or long-distance telephone work either, would you, young man?\"", "\"No, sir, I guess not. We're just glad to be able to use them, I expect.\"", "\"that faculty is also still in the future. In the meantime it remains a rare gift.\"", "\"You have it, Christopher. You were born with the ability to move backward into time that has passed. Whether or not you will ever master the gift of moving into the future, that, of course", "\"is impossible to tell. You may. But for my purposes, that you have been able to return this far is enough.", "\"Have you understood what I have been saying up to now?", "\"This ability to move back and forth in Time,", "\"is no more farfetched than the ability to send colored images and sound across the land into your own house, where you can see and hear them. It is something which, so far, and I mean, of course, in your time, has not yet been discovered. But it will be,", "\"But until it has been it appears fantastic, does it not?\"", "\"If it weren't happening to me I wouldn't believe it!\"", "\"and I would not blame you. But now,", "\"you must have your mind set at rest regarding your mother.", "\"that crystal balls are the things to look into. Perfect tommyrot. This will do equally well. Look and see.\"", "\"The turn has come. She will pull through, but she will need watchful care.\"", "\"Oh, thank God! Thank God!", "\"That is how it really is. My word of honor.\"", "\"Allah reunite him with what he loveth!", "\"Tell him to let me hear somewhat anent his separation from his countrymen and his country.", "\"O my brother! O Zau al-Makan!", "\"O my sister! O Nuzhat al-Zaman!", "\"Come with me into the litter and tell me all that hath befallen thee, and I will tell thee what happened to me.", "\"Praised be Allah who hath vouchsafed thee to me and ordained that, even as we left our father together, so together shall we return to him!", "\"Of a truth my brother Sharrkan gave me in marriage to this Chamberlain that he might carry me to my father. And this is what befel me from first to last; so now tell me how it hath fared with thee since I left thee.", "\"Of a truth, O my sister, this Fireman hath dealt with me in such benevolent wise as would not lover with lass nor sire with son, for that he fasted and gave me to eat, and he walked whilst he made me ride; and I owe my life to him.", "\"Allah willing, we will requite him for all this, according to our power.", "\"Take thy reward for glad tidings, O face of good omen! It was thy hand reunited me with my brother; so the purse I gave thee and all in it are thine. But now go to thy master and bring him quickly to me.", "\"Know, O Chamberlain, that thou hast married no slave girl; far from it, thou hast taken to wife the daughter of King Omar bin al-Nu'uman for I am Nuzhat al- Zaman, and this is my brother, Zau al-Makan.", "\"We are now near our country and I would be left alone with my brother, that we may enjoy each other's company and take our fill of it ere we reach Baghdad; for we have been parted a long, long time.", "\"Bid the Eunuch bring me the Fireman and give him a horse to ride and ration him with a tray of food morning and evening, and let him be forbidden to leave us.", "\"Indeed, I warned him for the love of Allah, but he would not listen to me; Oh would I knew what is become of him!", "\"Verily he knoweth not the value of the good offices I have done him! I believe he hath denounced me to the Eunuch (hence these pages et about me) and he hath made me an accomplice in his crime.", "\"'Twas as I feared the coming ills discerning: * But unto Allah we are all returning.\"", "\"If a hair of him be lost, you will be lost with it.", "\"O Chief, I am neither this youth's brother nor am I akin to him, nor is he sib to me; but I was a Fireman in a Hammam and found him cast out, in his sickness, on the dung heap.", "\"Thou disturbedst our mistress by reciting verses, thou and this youth: but fear nothing for thy self;", "\"What is the matter and what are these troops, that ye do this with us?", "\"Who art thou; and whence comest thou, and whither art thou bound?", "\"I am the Chamberlain of the Emir of Damascus, King Sharrkan, son of Omar bin al-Nu'uman, Lord of Baghdad and of the land of Khorasan, and I bring tribute and presents from him to his father in Baghdad.", "\"In very sooth King Omar is dead and he died not but of poison. So fare ye forwards; no harm shall befal you till you join his Grand Wazir, Dandan.", "\"Oh for our disappointment in this our journey!", "\"Police Sergeant Gordon, on official business,", "\"And you'd better be ready to open when I come back.\"", "\"You, Sheila, you come outa there! You come right out or I'm gonna blast that there door down. You open up.\"", "\"Jurgens don't want you; all he wants is this place -- we got use for it. It don't belong to you, anyhow! Come out now, and we'll let you go peaceful. Or stay in there and we'll blast you out -- in pieces.\"", "\"You don't have a chance. We've already chased all your boarders out!\"", "\"Wait a minute. I've got this nailed shut.", "\"Though I ought to let you stay out there and rot. Damn it ... uh!\"", "\"You ain't gonna beat me this time? I'm a sick man. Sick. Can't hurt nobody. Don't beat me again.\"", "\"Just stay there until I get away from this rat's nest and I won't hit you. I won't even touch you.\"", "\"Just a matter of co-ordination, Cuddles,", "\"Little girls shouldn't play with knives; they'll grow up to be old maids that way.\"", "\"Can't say I think much of your choice of companions these days,", "\"It looks as if your grandfather picks them better for you.\"", "\"I got enough out of the Mother to case the pitch,", "\"I knew I was right when I spotted the apeman carrying a guy with a bad shoulder away from here. Jurgens' punks, eh?\"", "\"Thanks for coming. What's it going to cost me?\"", "\"Wouldn't be honest to charge unless you asked me to convoy you, gov'nor. And if you're looking for the vixen's room, it's where you bunked before. I got around after I spotted you here.\"", "\"Traitor! Crooked little traitor!\"", "\"I'm going to put this on you and then unfasten your arms and legs. But if you start to so much as wiggle your big toe, you won't sit down for a month.\"", "\"Very touching, cobber. You have a way with women, it seems. Too bad she had to wear a helmet, or you might have dragged her here by her hair. Ah, well, let's not talk about it here. My room is more comfortable -- and private.\"", "\"Well? You must have had some reason for bringing her here, cobber.\"", "\"I can lock her up -- carrying a gun without a permit is reason enough. But I'd rather you kept her here, if you'll take the responsibility. After all, she's your granddaughter.\"", "\"So she is. That's why I wash my hands of her. I couldn't control myself at her age, couldn't control my son, and I don't intend to handle a female of my line. It looks as if you'll have to arrest her.\"", "\"Okay. Suppose I rent a room and put a good lock on it. You've got the one that connects with mine vacant.\"", "\"I run a respectable house now, Gordon,", "\"What you do outside my place is your own business. But no women, except married ones. Can't trust 'em.\"", "\"How in hell do I marry her without any rigmarole?\"", "\"The two of you simply fill out a form -- I've got a few left from the last time -- and get Izzy and me to witness it. Drop it in the mail, and you're married.\"", "\"Rich, but not very imaginative,", "\"But she'll learn. Izzy, I have a feeling we should let them settle their differences.\"", "\"This isn't a game. Hell's popping here -- you know that better than most people. And I'm up to my neck in it. If I've got to marry you to keep you out of my hair, I will.\"", "\"Me or Trench! I can take you to him and tell him you're mixed up in Security, and that you either have papers on you or out at the Chicken Coop to prove it. He won't believe you if I take you in. Well?\"", "\"You'd do it! You really would.... All right; I'll sign your damned papers!\"", "\"It's in the mail to the register, along with the twenty credits. Gov'nor, we're about due to report in.\"", "\"I'll bring you some food tonight. And you may not have a private bath, but it beats the Chicken Coop. Here.", "\u201cWhy, my dear, how do I know?", "\u201cIsn\u2019t that woman always without one?\u201d", "\u201cAnd where\u2019s Master Miles?\u201d", "\u201cOh, he\u2019s with Quint. They\u2019re in the schoolroom.\u201d", "\u201cthey\u2019ve successfully worked their plan. He found the most divine little way to keep me quiet while she went off.\u201d", "\u201cHe has provided for himself as well. But come!\u201d", "\u201cSo long with Quint? Yes \u2014 I don\u2019t mind that now.\u201d", "\u201cWhat do I care when the child has nothing? I can\u2019t wait to dress,", "\u201cand if you must do so, I leave you. Try meanwhile, yourself, upstairs.\u201d", "\"Indeed? I did not see that too clearly, and so I was not sure.", "\"Go have your supper lad, and come back. I have some other things to say.\"", "\"Ah now, Master Cilley,", "\"you will fade away into a wraith, my good man, so you will! Do you not eat a morsel nor a mouthful, and die in the night, how shall I bear to live with my conscience thereafter, tell me that?\"", "\"The life of a sailor, 'tis that hard -- is't not, me boys?", "\"Or else, me innards is ruint by that galley cook of ours.", "\"Ah, sweet Boozer, were you to sample but a spoonful of what us pore sailors must face week after week, and month after month, and us on the high seas -- you bein' such a delikit cook, so to speak -- your heart's blood would curdle on the instant, that it would, by my cap and buttons!\"", "\"Deary me, the saints preserve and defend us!", "\"I must do all in my poor weak woman's power to tempt you as best I may. Draw up, lads, for here it comes!", "\"Mr. Wicker asked me to see him for a moment.", "\"That was a superb supper, Becky. I'm stuffed.\"", "\"Why -- a mere mouthful, a taste, a tidbit, was all any of you had. See -- there's a pigeon or two left, and half a duck, and part of the beef pie -- why, you do but peck at your food, all of you, like poor birds!", "\"Anyhow, thanks again. I'll be back,", "\"Do you not recognise these things, Christopher?", "\"Well -- it seems to me I may have seen them before -- they sort of look familiar, but -- I couldn't be sure.\"", "\"They are your twentieth-century clothes, my lad. The ones you wear in your own time. And deeply as it hurts me to say it, the moment has come for you to put them on.\"", "\"Not yet? I don't have to go now, do I, sir?", "\"And -- and -- I didn't say good-bye to Captain Blizzard or Mr. Finney. They were wonderful to me, really they were! And", "\"I am afraid I shall have to have the leather pouch, Christopher,", "\"I shall have to take everything from you that you have gained here, Christopher.", "\"All but one thing which you may choose and keep -- one ability.", "\"I'd like to be able to come back, sir,", "\"So you shall, Christopher, so you shall! And you shall remember it all, I promise you. That too, you can have.\"", "\"good soldier that you are for General Washington and for your country, all that you learned must leave you and remain with me.\"", "\u201cthat looked like Alexander, but what would he be doing back there in the daycoaches?\u201d", "\u201cI\u2019ll have my coffee first, Philip. Have you had yours? And now, what seems to be the matter up here?\u201d", "\u201cI haven\u2019t stopped work yet, Mr. Alexander. I didn\u2019t feel that I could go so far without definite authorization from you.\u201d", "\u201cThen why didn\u2019t you say in your telegram exactly what you thought, and ask for your authorization? You\u2019d have got it quick enough.\u201d", "\u201cWell, really, Mr. Alexander, I couldn\u2019t be absolutely sure, you know, and I didn\u2019t like to take the responsibility of making it public.\u201d", "\u201cAnything I do can be made public, Phil. You say that you believe the lower chords are showing strain, and that even the workmen have been talking about it, and yet you\u2019ve gone on adding weight.\u201d", "\u201cI\u2019m sorry, Mr. Alexander, but I had counted on your getting here yesterday. My first telegram missed you somehow. I sent one Sunday evening, to the same address, but it was returned to me.\u201d", "\u201cHave you a carriage out there? I must stop to send a wire.\u201d", "\u201cAnd certainly that\u2019s the new line of development.\u201d", "\u201cI think you had better stop work out there at once, Dan. I should say that the lower chord here might buckle at any moment. I told the Commission that we were using higher unit stresses than any practice has established, and we\u2019ve put the dead load at a low estimate. Theoretically it worked out well enough, but it had never actually been tried.", "\u201cDon\u2019t look so chopfallen, Dan. It\u2019s a jolt, but we\u2019ve got to face it. It isn\u2019t the end of the world, you know. Now we\u2019ll go out and call the men off quietly. They\u2019re already nervous, Horton tells me, and there\u2019s no use alarming them. I\u2019ll go with you, and we\u2019ll send the end riveters in first.\u201d", "\u201cYou see that carriage over there? That\u2019s Mrs. Alexander. They haven\u2019t found him yet. She got off the train this morning. Horton met her. She heard it in Boston yesterday \u2014 heard the newsboys crying it in the street.\u201d", "\u201cThose poor women out there, do they blame him very much?", "\u201cDon\u2019t be afraid to tell me the worst, Mr. Horton. Don\u2019t leave me to the dread of finding out things that people may be saying. If he is blamed, if he needs any one to speak for him,", "\u201cif he needs any one, tell me, show me what to do.", "\u201cWon\u2019t you drive up to my house, Mrs. Alexander? They will take him up there.\u201d", "\u201cTake me to him now, please. I shall not make any trouble.\u201d", "\u201cwill you take Mrs. Alexander the things she needs? She is going to do everything herself. Just stay about where you can hear her and go in if she wants you.\u201d", "\"Old Wicker's got a sign in his window -- he needs a boy. For after school, I guess. Think he'd pay, huh? Whyncha try?\"", "\"Well, I'll tell you what. Know who needs a job bad? That's Jakey Harris. His mother's sick, and he's got that bad foot. Whyncha ask for him, huh? You sit next to him at school.\"", "\"I did. Wicker's such a queer old guy. That ol' antique shop is dark an' spooky, an' -- Well, I went in, and there wasn't nobody there, on'y him and me.\"", "\"So I said I was there about the job, an' do you know what he said? He said", "\"He said, 'Turn around and look out that window, son, and tell me what you see.'\"", "\"Of all the silly things! But I turned around and looked, like he told me to, and of course there was the traffic goin' by, and trucks, and cabs, and people crossin' the street, and the freeway overhead, an' -- you know.\"", "\"Oh, he just smiled, that funny little crackly smile, and said, 'I'm sorry, young man, you won't do.'\"", "\"Queerest thing I ever heard. Gee! Whaddaya suppose?\"", "\"It doesn't make sense, but old Wicker's so old he may be addled, don't you reckon? Who else would keep an antique store where nobody ever looks? All the other antique places are along Wisconsin Avenue where people go to shop.\"", "\"You reckon Jakey really could use the job?", "\"You bet he does! He tol' me at noon today he wished he could find something that would help bring some money in. His mother's sick,", "\"Not any sucha thing. I'm going now.\"", "\"but I just remembered. My mother told me to bring her some stuff from the Safeway. I'll run all the way and come back and meet you.\"", "\u201cBetter. Is your master up?\u201d", "\u201cWhich one? the old one or the new one?\u201d", "\u201cI will go and see. I will tell him that M. Fauchelevent is here.\u201d", "\u201cNo. Do not tell him that it is I. Tell him that some one wishes to speak to him in private, and mention no name.\u201d", "\u201cthat idiot of a Basque had such a mysterious air! But you have come too early. It is only half past twelve. Cosette is asleep.\u201d", "\u201cHow glad I am to see you! If you only knew how we missed you yesterday! Good morning, father. How is your hand? Better, is it not?\u201d", "\u201cI have something to say to you. I am an ex-convict.\u201d", "\u201cThere is nothing the matter with my hand,", "\u201cThere has not been anything the matter with it,", "\u201cWhat is the meaning of this?\u201d", "\u201cI was nineteen years in the galleys. For theft. Then, I was condemned for life for theft, for a second offence. At the present moment, I have broken my ban.\u201d", "\u201cIt is necessary that you should believe me here, sir; although our oath to others may not be received in law . . .\u201d", "\u201cI. Since I tell you so.\u201d", "\u201cdo you tell me all this? Who forces you to do so? You could have kept your secret to yourself. You are neither denounced, nor tracked nor pursued. You have a reason for wantonly making such a revelation. Conclude. There is something more. In what connection do you make this confession? What is your motive?\u201d", "\u201cIn days gone by, I stole a loaf of bread in order to live; to-day, in order to live, I will not steal a name.\u201d", "\u201cYou do not need that name in order to live?\u201d", "\u201cAh! I understand the matter,", "\u201cWhile, at present, I am relieved.\u201d", "\u201cI drag my leg a little. Now you understand why!\u201d", "\u201cI am believed to be dead, and that suffices. The dead are not subjected to surveillance. They are supposed to rot in peace. Death is the same thing as pardon.\u201d", "\u201cMoreover, the friend to whom I have recourse is the doing of my duty; and I need but one pardon, that of my conscience.\u201d", "\u201cI will wager that you are talking politics. How stupid that is, instead of being with me!\u201d", "\u201cI have caught you in the very act,", "\u201cJust now, I heard my father Fauchelevent through the door saying: \u2018Conscience . . . doing my duty . . .\u2019 That is politics, indeed it is. I will not have it. People should not talk politics the very next day. It is not right.\u201d", "\u201cwe are talking business. We are discussing the best investment of your six hundred thousand francs . . .\u201d", "\u201cI am coming. Does anybody want me here?\u201d", "\u201cThere was once a King and a Queen. Oh! how happy I am!\u201d", "\u201cI am going to install myself near you in an easy-chair, we breakfast in half an hour, you shall say anything you like, I know well that men must talk, and I will be very good.\u201d", "\u201cI have opened my window, a flock of pierrots has arrived in the garden, \u2014 Birds, not maskers. To-day is Ash-Wednesday; but not for the birds.\u201d", "\u201cI tell you that we are talking business, go, my little Cosette, leave us alone for a moment. We are talking figures. That will bore you.\u201d", "\u201cYou have a charming cravat on this morning, Marius. You are very dandified, monseigneur. No, it will not bore me.\u201d", "\u201cI assure you that it will bore you.\u201d", "\u201cNo. Since it is you. I shall not understand you, but I shall listen to you. When one hears the voices of those whom one loves, one does not need to understand the words that they utter. That we should be here together \u2014 that is all that I desire. I shall remain with you, bah!\u201d", "\u201cYou are my beloved Cosette! Impossible.\u201d", "\u201cI swear to you, that it is indispensable that we should be alone.\u201d", "\u201cIn the first place, father, I want you to come and embrace me. What do you mean by not saying anything instead of taking my part? who gave me such a father as that? You must perceive that my family life is very unhappy. My husband beats me. Come, embrace me instantly.\u201d", "\u201cAs for you, I shall make a face at you.\u201d", "\u201cFather, you are pale. Does your arm hurt you?\u201d", "\u201cEmbrace me if you are well, if you sleep well, if you are content, I will not scold you.\u201d", "\u201cNow, defend me against my husband.\u201d", "\u201cGet angry, father. Say that I must stay. You can certainly talk before me. So you think me very silly. What you say is astonishing! business, placing money in a bank a great matter truly. Men make mysteries out of nothing. I am very pretty this morning. Look at me, Marius.\u201d", "\u201cI assure you, Cosette, that it is impossible.\u201d", "\u201cI will keep your secret for myself alone.\u201d", "\u201cAll is nearly over. But one last thing remains for me . . .\u201d", "\u201cNow that you know, do you think, sir, you, who are the master, that I ought not to see Cosette any more?\u201d", "\u201cflat round cap, close-cut hair, narrow falling bands, coarse side coat, close hose, cloth stockings,", "\u201cYe shall constantly and devoutly on your knees every day serve God, morning and evening", "\u201cavoid evil company, to make speedy return when sent on his master\u2019s business, to be fair, gentle and lowly in speech and carriage with all men,", "\u201cvarlet\u2019s budget \u2014 a mere Italian common knave, no better than myself,", "\u201cmen may not rate it but as a scarlet cock\u2019s comb, since all men be but fools, and the sole question is, who among them hath wit enough to live by his folly.", "\u201cTo St. John\u2019s Wood! The good greenwood, uncle,", "\u201cFor once away from thine ink and thy books!\u201d", "\u201cmine heart warms to the woodlands once more. Uncle, would that thou couldst come.\u201d", "\u201cWould that I could, boy! We three would show these lads of Cockayne what three foresters know of wood craft! But it may not be. Were I once there the old blood might stir again and I might bring you into trouble, and ye have not two faces under one hood as I have! So fare ye well, I wish you many a bagful of nuts!\u201d", "\u201cWhy sure, little mistress, thou\u2019lt have enough to crack thy teeth on!", "\u201cthere dwells by me a poor little maid nigh about thine age, who never goeth further out than to St. Paul\u2019s minster, nor plucketh flower, nor hath sweet cake, nor manchet bread, nor sugar-stick, nay, and scarce ever saw English hazel-nut nor blackberry. \u2019Tis for her that I want to gather them.\u201d", "\u201cNay, my master hath no children, but she dwelleth near him.\u201d", "\u201cI will send her some, and likewise of mine own comfits and cakes,", "\u201cOnly thou must bring all to me first.\u201d", "\u201cHere\u2019s a skulker! Here\u2019s one of the black guard! Off to thy fellows, varlet!", "\u201cSo much for a knave that serves rascally strangers! Here! hand over that bag of nuts!\u201d", "\u201cStand by, Ambrose; I\u2019ll give the coward his deserts.\u201d", "\u201cThy bag of nuts, in return for the berries thou hast wasted!\u201d", "\u201cI marvel these fine fellows \u2019scaped our company,", "\u201cAre we in the right track, thinkst thou? Here is a pool I marked not before,", "\u201cNay, we can\u2019t be far astray while we see St. Paul\u2019s spire and the Tower full before us,", "\u201cThat may be. Only where is the safe footing?", "\u201cI wish we had not lost sight of the others!\u201d", "\u201cPish! what good are a pack of City lubbers!", "\u201cDon\u2019t we know a quagmire when we see one, better than they do?\u201d", "\u201cNot they! That\u2019s a falconer\u2019s call. There\u2019s another whistle! See, there\u2019s the hawk. She\u2019s going down the wind, as I\u2019m alive,", "\u201cSoh! Lie down, boy, behind that bunch of osier. Hold out thy pole. Let me see thine hands. Thou art but a straw, but, our Lady be my speed! Now hangs England on a pair of wrists!\u201d", "\u201cHa! hast thou got her? Why, flat-caps as ye are, ye put all my fellows to shame! How now, thou errant bird, dost know thy master, or take him for a mud wall? Kite that thou art, to have led me such a dance! And what\u2019s your name, my brave lads? Ye must have been bred to wood-craft.\u201d", "\u201cWot ye how to get out of this quagmire?", "\u201cbut yonder lies the Tower, and if we keep along by this dyke, it must lead us out somewhere.\u201d", "\u201cWell said, boy, I must be moving, or the mud will dry on me, and I shall stand here as though I were turned to stone by the Gorgon\u2019s head! So have with thee! Go on first, master hawk-tamer. What will bear thee will bear me!\u201d", "\u201can it had not been for this good lad, ye would never have heard more of the majesty of England! Swallowed in a quagmire had made a new end for a king, and ye would have to brook the little Scot.\u201d", "\u201cI\u2019ll not forget you, my lads. Keep that!", "\u201c\u2019tis a token that maybe will serve thee, for I shall know it again. And thou, my black-eyed lad \u2014 My purse, Howard!\u201d", "\u201cYet mayhap he might do something for thee, friend Ambrose,", "\u201cCommend thee to some post in his chapel royal, or put thee into some college, since such is thy turn. How sayst thou, Master Randall, shall he send in this same token, and make his petition?\u201d", "\u201cIf a foo \u2014 if a plain man may be heard where the wise hath spoken,", "\u201che had best abstain. Kings love not to be minded of mishaps, and our Hal\u2019s humour is not to be reckoned on! Lay up the toy in case of need, but an thou claim overmuch he may mind thee in a fashion not to thy taste.\u201d", "\u201cSure our King is of a more generous mould!", "\u201cHe is like other men, good mistress, just as you know how to have him, and he is scarce like to be willing to be minded of the taste of mire, or of floundering like a hog in a salt marsh. Ha! ha!", "\u201cmy good woman hath been in a mortal fright about thee, and would have me come out to seek after thee. Such are the women folk, Master Headley. Let them have but a lad to look after, and they\u2019ll bleat after him like an old ewe that has lost her lamb.\u201d", "\"Can you send copy last prescription? Lost it. Face red as a carrot. In agonies! What shall I do? Help!\"", "\"Stick your feet in hot water. Go to bed at once. Prescription sent by post. Take it every hour.\"", "\"Buy the horse at any price. He's a spanker. Let the pigs go for what they'll fetch.\"", "\"I beg your pardon. The sleet drivin' in my face prevented my seeing you. You're not hurt I hope.\"", "\"Why, it's you, Miss May! Now isn't that good luck, my turnin' up just in the nick o' time to see you home? Here, catch hold of my arm. The wind's fit to tear the lamp-posts up by the roots.\"", "\"That's true, Miss May, it ain't, but I'm only goin' round a bit by St. Paul's Churchyard. There's a shop there where they sell the sausages my old 'ooman's so fond of. It don't add more than a few yards to the road home.\"", "\"just let me catch hold of a fryin'-pan and I'll give you to understand what a blow-out means.\"", "\"Change your feet, lassie, direc'ly, or you'll tak' cauld,", "\"what news have you for me to-night?\"", "\"Deed, May, there's little but the auld story -- Mercies, mornin', noon, and night. But, oo ay, I was maist forgettin'; Miss Lillycrap was here, an left ye a message o' some sort.\"", "\"You've no chance of getting it now, Miss May, for I've noticed that when the old 'ooman once forgets a thing it don't come back to her -- except, p'r'aps, a week or two afterwards. Come now, draw in and go to work. But, p'r'aps, Dollops may have heard the message. Hallo! Dollops! come here, and bring the kettle with you.\"", "\"Yes, sir, I did; I saw'd 'er a-goin' hout.\"", "\"Yes, sir, I did. I 'eard 'er say to missis, `Be sure that you give May Maylands my love, an tell 'er wotever she do to keep 'er feet dry, an' don't forgit the message, an' say I'm so glad about it, though it's not much to speak of arter all!'\"", "\"Pooh! be off to your pots an' pans, child,", "\"heap up the coals, mayhap it'll revive the memory.\"", "\"it wasn't a message, it was a letter!\"", "\"DEAREST MAY, -- I've been to see my friend `in power,' and he says it's `all right,' that you've only to get your brother over as soon as possible, and he'll see to getting him a situation. The enclosed paper is for his and your guidance. Excuse haste. -- Your affectionate coz, SARAH LILLYCROP.\"", "\"Let Phil come here at once. The application has been successful. Never mind clothes. Everything arranged. Best love to all.\"", "\u201cYou\u2019re as white as a sheet. You look awful.\u201d", "\u201cYou came for me for church, of course, but I can\u2019t go.\u201d", "\u201cYes. You must know now. Did I look very queer?\u201d", "\u201cThrough this window? Dreadful!\u201d", "\u201cJust what you saw from the dining room a minute ago was the effect of that. What I saw \u2014 just before \u2014 was much worse.\u201d", "\u201cAn extraordinary man. Looking in.\u201d", "\u201cI haven\u2019t the least idea.\u201d", "\u201cYes \u2014 once. On the old tower.\u201d", "\u201cDo you mean he\u2019s a stranger?\u201d", "\u201cHow can I if you don\u2019t imagine?\u201d", "\u201cYou\u2019ve seen him nowhere but on the tower?\u201d", "\u201cOnly standing there and looking down at me.\u201d", "\u201cThen nobody about the place? Nobody from the village?\u201d", "\u201cNobody \u2014 nobody. I didn\u2019t tell you, but I made sure.\u201d", "\u201cWhat is he? He\u2019s a horror.\u201d", "\u201cHe\u2019s \u2014 God help me if I know what he is!\u201d", "\u201cOh, I\u2019m not fit for church!\u201d", "\u201cWhen was it \u2014 on the tower?\u201d", "\u201cAbout the middle of the month. At this same hour.\u201d", "\u201cOh, no, not nearly. I saw him as I see you.\u201d", "\u201cI had no opportunity to ask him! This evening, you see,", "\u201cGo to church. Goodbye. I must watch.\u201d", "\u201cTill I came out. I came to meet him.\u201d", "\u201cI couldn\u2019t have come out.\u201d", "\u201cBut I did come. I have my duty.\u201d", "\u201cI\u2019ve been dying to tell you. But he\u2019s like nobody.\u201d", "\u201cI\u2019ve never seen one, but so I suppose them. He\u2019s tall, active, erect,", "\u201cbut never \u2014 no, never! \u2014 a gentleman.\u201d", "\u201cBut he is handsome?\u201d", "\u201cPeter Quint \u2014 his own man, his valet, when he was here!\u201d", "\u201cHe never wore his hat, but he did wear \u2014 well, there were waistcoats missed. They were both here \u2014 last year. Then the master went, and Quint was alone.\u201d", "\u201cI must learn if it be so, and must judge of that for myself,", "\u201cWho can tell whether that heart, so coveted, is not common in its impulses, and full of alloy? Who can tell if that mind, when the touchstone is applied to it, will not be found of a mean and vulgar character? Come, come,", "\u201cthis is doubting and hesitation too much -- to the proof,", "\u201che must have arrived; it is the hour for signing his papers.", "\u201cThat you have never loved me so much as at this moment; in the same manner you can read, in my present step towards you, that I have not forgotten you.\u201d", "\u201cyou are indeed an angel, and no man can suspect you. All he can do is to humble himself before you and entreat forgiveness.\u201d", "\u201cYour forgiveness is granted, then,", "\u201csit here by my side. Ah! that is an evil thought which has just crossed your mind.\u201d", "\u201cBy the smile that has just marred the expression of your countenance. Be candid, and tell me what your thought was -- no secrets between friends.\u201d", "\u201cTell me, then, madame, why you have been so harsh these three or four months past?\u201d", "\u201cYes; did you not forbid me to visit you?\u201d", "\u201cindeed, marquise, you will almost make me believe I am so, judging from your own sadness. Are your beautiful eyes raised upon me merely in pity? I was looking for another expression from them.\u201d", "\u201cIt is not I who am sad, monsieur; look in the mirror, there -- it is yourself.\u201d", "\u201cIt is true I am somewhat pale, marquise; but it is from overwork; the king yesterday required a supply of money from me.\u201d", "\u201cYes, four millions; I am aware of it.\u201d", "\u201cIt would indeed be strange, marquise,", "\u201cif a superintendent of finances were not to have a paltry four millions in his coffers.\u201d", "\u201cYes, yes, I believe you either have, or will have them.\u201d", "\u201cWhat do you mean by saying I shall have them?\u201d", "\u201cIt is not very long since you were required to furnish two millions.\u201d", "\u201cOn the contrary, it seems almost an age; but do not let us talk of money matters any longer.\u201d", "\u201cOn the contrary, we will continue to speak of them, for that is my only reason for coming to see you.\u201d", "\u201cI am at a loss to compass your meaning,", "\u201cTell me, monsieur, is the office of superintendent a permanent position?\u201d", "\u201cYou surprise me, marchioness, for you speak as if you had some motive or interest in putting the question.\u201d", "\u201cMy reason is simple enough; I am desirous of placing some money in your hands, and naturally I wish to know if you are certain of your post.\u201d", "\u201cReally, marquise, I am at a loss what to reply; I cannot conceive your meaning.\u201d", "\u201cSeriously, then, dear M. Fouquet, I have certain funds which somewhat embarrass me. I am tired of investing my money in lands, and am anxious to intrust it to some friend who will turn it to account.\u201d", "\u201cOn the contrary, it is very pressing.\u201d", "\u201cVery well, we will talk of that by and by.\u201d", "\u201cBy and by will not do, for my money is there,", "\u201cwhat opinion can you have of me, when you make me such an offer?\u201d", "\u201cTell me, rather, what you yourself think of the step I have taken.\u201d", "\u201cYou bring me this money for myself, and you bring it because you know me to be embarrassed. Nay, do not deny it, for I am sure of it. Can I not read your heart?\u201d", "\u201cIf you know my heart, then, can you not see that it is my heart I offer you?\u201d", "\u201cIn truth, madame, I have never yet given you the right to insult me in this manner.\u201d", "\u201cwhat singular delicacy of feeling! You tell me you love me; in the name of that affection you wish me to sacrifice my reputation and my honor, yet, when I offer you money which is my own, you refuse me.\u201d", "\u201cA short time since, M. Fouquet, you were wanting in judgment; now you are wanting in feeling.\u201d", "\u201coverwhelm me, madame, for I have nothing to reply.\u201d", "\u201cI offered you my friendship, M. Fouquet.\u201d", "\u201cYes, madame, and you limited yourself to that.\u201d", "\u201cAnd what I am now doing is the act of a friend.\u201d", "\u201cAnd you reject this mark of my friendship?\u201d", "\u201cOh! madame, you overwhelm me beneath a load of happiness.\u201d", "\u201cWill you be happy, then, if I am yours -- entirely?\u201d", "\u201cIt will be the supremest happiness for me.\u201d", "\u201cTake me, then. If, however, for your sake I sacrifice a prejudice, do you, for mine, sacrifice a scruple.\u201d", "\u201cThink seriously of what you are proposing.\u201d", "\u201cFouquet, but one word. Let it be \u2018No,\u2019 and I open this door,", "\u201cand you will never see me again. Let that word be \u2018Yes,\u2019 and I am yours entirely.\u201d", "\u201cElise! Elise! But this coffer?\u201d", "\u201cYes, my jewels, for which I care no longer if you do not love me, and for which, equally, I care no longer if you love me as I love you.\u201d", "\u201cI yield, I yield, even were it only to consecrate so much devotion. I accept the dowry.\u201d", "\"I knew you had this cannon, gov'nor, and I figured it'd come in handy. Wouldn't be caught dead with one myself. Knives, that's my specialty. Come on, Cap'n, we gotta get out the vote.\"", "\"In the first place, I'm not registered.\"", "\"Every cop's registered in his own precinct; Wayne got the honor system fixed for us. Show your papers and go into any booth in your territory. That's all. And you'd better be seen voting often, too, Cap'n. What's your precinct?\"", "\"Eleventh, but I'm not voting. I'd like to come along with you to observe, but I wouldn't make any choice between Wayne and Nolan.\"", "\"Come on, you. We're late. And I ain't staying on the streets when it gets going.\"", "\"Come on, you gees. I gotta be back in half an hour.\"", "\"You mugs get the hell out of -- Oh, cops! Okay, better pin these on.\"", "\"Just a friend on the way to his own route. Eleventh Precinct.\"", "\"He's been dead for ten years. I know him. He's my uncle.\"", "\"There's a Mike Thaler registered, and this guy says he's Thaler,", "\"Heh-heh, yes, just a mix-up. He's registered, so he votes.\"", "\"Murtang.... No registration!", "\"When a man can't get the name straight the first time, it's suspicious.\"", "\"Better check the name off, unless the real Murtagh shows up. Any objections, Yeoman?\"", "\"Saves trouble, unless you want to do it yourself,", "\"Wayne'll win, but not that easy. The sticks don't have strong mobs, and they'll pile up a heavy Nolan vote. And you'll see things hum soon!\"", "\"Inside the dome! They're poisoning the air.\"", "\"I've had enough. I've made up my mind,", "\"The cable offices must be open for the doctored reports on the election to Earth. Where's the nearest?\"", "\"Come off the head-cop role; it won't work. They must have had reports on elections before this.\"", "\"Okay, it's your death certificate,", "\"Get out, Gordon, before they gang up on us!\"", "\"I'll walk. Get me to a place where we can talk -- and be damned to this. Gordon, I've got to talk -- but I don't have to live. I mean that!\"", "\"Yes. Pappa is dead, God forbid it. He would try to vote. I told him and told him -- and then ... With my own hands, I carried him here.\"", "\"No. Pappa is dead. He needs no beds now, and your friend is suffering; put him here.\"", "\"I'll get alcohol from below -- and bandages and hot water.\"", "\"Let them go, kid. There's no way to save me now. And listen!\"", "\"Gordon, you're a self-made louse, but you're a man underneath it somewhere. That's why we rate you higher than you think you are. That's why I'm going to trust you -- because I have to.\"", "\"He was a clerk once for Security. But nobody came, nobody called....\"", "\"Probably what happened to a lot -- men like Trench, supposed to build an organization, just leaving the loose ends hanging.", "\"Hell's going to pop. The government's just waiting to step in; Earth wants to take over.\"", "\"Take it. You're head of Security on Mars now. It's all authorized in the plans there. You'll need the brains and knowledge of the others -- but they can't act. You can -- we know about you.\"", "\"So Security wants me to contact the others in the book and organize things?\"", "\"Not a good chance, then -- but a chance. Still time -- I think. Gordon?\"", "\"Dead, fighting wind-mills. And maybe winning. I don't know.\"", "\"I should have watched her. It is a bad day for me, young man. I failed Pappa; I failed the poor man who died -- and now I have failed you. It is better...\"", "\u201cHe was looking for someone else, you say \u2014 someone who was not you?\u201d", "\u201cHe was looking for little Miles.", "\u201cI know, I know, I know!", "\u201cLittle Miles? That\u2019s what he wants!\u201d", "\u201cHeaven forbid! The man. He wants to appear to them.", "\u201cHis having been here and the time they were with him?\u201d", "\u201cThe time they were with him, and his name, his presence, his history, in any way.\u201d", "\u201cOh, the little lady doesn\u2019t remember. She never heard or knew.\u201d", "\u201cPerhaps not. But Miles would remember \u2014 Miles would know.\u201d", "\u201cThat he has never spoken of him?\u201d", "\u201cNever by the least allusion. And you tell me they were \u2018great friends\u2019?\u201d", "\u201cIt was Quint\u2019s own fancy. To play with him, I mean \u2014 to spoil him.", "\u201cQuint was much too free.\u201d", "\u201cI have it from you then \u2014 for it\u2019s of great importance \u2014 that he was definitely and admittedly bad?\u201d", "\u201cOh, not admittedly. I knew it \u2014 but the master didn\u2019t.\u201d", "\u201cI promise you I would have told!\u201d", "\u201cI daresay I was wrong. But, really, I was afraid.\u201d", "\u201cOf things that man could do. Quint was so clever \u2014 he was so deep.\u201d", "\u201cYou weren\u2019t afraid of anything else? Not of his effect \u2014 ?\u201d", "\u201cOn innocent little precious lives. They were in your charge.\u201d", "\u201cThe master believed in him and placed him here because he was supposed not to be well and the country air so good for him. So he had everything to say. Yes", "\u201cThem \u2014 that creature?", "\u201cNo. I couldn\u2019t \u2014 and I can\u2019t now!", "\"See there, the thin man. That be Mr. Mason's agent. I heard he's here to buy the ballast bricks for his master's plantation on the island.\"", "\"Ballast bricks? Please sir, what's that?\"", "\"Ballast bricks? Why, anyone knows that these are the bricks brought over in the hold, my lad, should there not be sufficient cargo, both to make ballast for the vessel and to sell once here. English bricks are cheaper than those we can make ourselves. Did you not know, young man,", "\"that our bricks for building houses have all come from British kilns?\"", "\"No sir, thank you sir,", "\"a taste, a mere spoonful", "\"Lookin' about, lads? Eh, that's the way. Is she not the finest ship that ever ye did rest your eyes on?\"", "\"Them? Why, bless me cap and buttons! That-there's the captain of the Mirabelle no less, and his first mate. Captain Ezekial Blizzard, he is, and Mr. Elisha Finney,", "\"Blizzard and Finney, that's them,", "\"And a better captain and first mate is not come by in the whole land, I shall warrant you. He may look too plump for his own good,", "\"though he don't look it, bless me cap and boots! He's tenderhearted as a bird, under that gloom, is Finney.\"", "\"'Tis better not. Wait till the master do present you proper to the Captain, for the Mirabelle is Captain Blizzard's castle, like. I would sooner ye were asked aboard by him.\"", "\"Here are two likely young 'uns, living at the house of Mr. Wicker. Ye've heard me speak of them. Amos, here, on me right, and Chris, that's on me other side.", "\"and that one's Abner Cloud, and that one,", "\u201cYou will watch for Mr. So and So, when he arrives.\u201d", "\u201cMonsieur le Baron has charged me to inquire whether monsieur desires to go upstairs or to remain below?\u201d", "\u201cfather, I knew that you were peculiar, but I never should have expected this. What an idea! Marius told me that you wish me to receive you here.\u201d", "\u201cI expected that reply. Good. I warn you that I am going to make a scene for you. Let us begin at the beginning. Embrace me, father.\u201d", "\u201cYou do not stir. I take note of it. Attitude of guilt. But never mind, I pardon you. Jesus Christ said: Offer the other cheek. Here it is.\u201d", "\u201cWhat have I done to you? I declare that I am perplexed. You owe me reparation. You will dine with us.\u201d", "\u201cThat is not true. I will get M. Gillenormand to scold you. Grandfathers are made to reprimand fathers. Come. Go upstairs with me to the drawing-room. Immediately.\u201d", "\u201cBut why? and you choose the ugliest chamber in the house in which to see me. It\u2019s horrible here.\u201d", "\u201cYou know, madame, that I am peculiar, I have my freaks.\u201d", "\u201cMadame! . . . You know! . . . more novelties! What is the meaning of this?\u201d", "\u201cYou wished to be Madame. You are so.\u201d", "\u201cCall me \u2018Monsieur Jean.\u2019 \u2018Jean,\u2019 if you like.\u201d", "\u201cYou are no longer my father? I am no longer Cosette? \u2018Monsieur Jean\u2019? What does this mean? why, these are revolutions, aren\u2019t they? what has taken place? come, look me in the face. And you won\u2019t live with us! And you won\u2019t have my chamber! What have I done to you? Has anything happened?\u201d", "\u201cYou have changed yours, surely.\u201d", "\u201cSince you are Madame Pontmercy, I certainly can be Monsieur Jean.\u201d", "\u201cThis is what I call being good: being nice and coming and living here, \u2014 there are birds here as there are in the Rue Plumet, \u2014 living with us, quitting that hole of a Rue de l\u2019Homme Arm\u00e9, not giving us riddles to guess, being like all the rest of the world, dining with us, breakfasting with us, being my father.\u201d", "\u201cYou no longer need a father, you have a husband.\u201d", "\u201cI no longer need a father! One really does not know what to say to things like that, which are not common sense!\u201d", "\u201cshe would be the first to agree that it is true that I have always had ways of my own. There is nothing new in this. I always have loved my black corner.\u201d", "\u201cAre you angry with me because I am happy?\u201d", "\u201cHer happiness was the object of my life. Now God may sign my dismissal. Cosette, thou art happy; my day is over.\u201d", "\u201cI leave you, Madame, they are waiting for you.\u201d", "\u201cI have said thou to you. Tell your husband that this shall not happen again. Pardon me.\u201d", "\u201cNothing is more common than those originals. They do all sorts of queer things. They have no reason. The Marquis de Canaples was still worse. He bought a palace that he might lodge in the garret. These are fantastic appearances that people affect.\u201d", "\u201cYou used to be my father, you are no longer my father, you were my uncle, you are no longer my uncle, you were Monsieur Fauchelevent, you are Jean. Who are you then? I don\u2019t like all this. If I did not know how good you are, I should be afraid of you.\u201d", "\u201cWe said that we would go back to take a look at our garden in the Rue Plumet. Let us go thither. We must not be ungrateful.", "\u201cMadame went out with Monsieur and has not yet returned,", "\u201cWhy do you not have a carriage of your own? A pretty coup\u00e9 would only cost you five hundred francs a month. You are rich.\u201d", "\u201cShe is gone. You have not replaced her. Why?\u201d", "\u201cYou ought to have a house of your own, your own servants, a carriage, a box at the theatre. There is nothing too fine for you. Why not profit by your riches? Wealth adds to happiness.\u201d", "\u201cM. Gillenormand sends me to remind Madame la Baronne that dinner is served.\u201d", "\u201cIt is perfectly simple. It is April. The cold weather has ceased.\u201d", "\u201cWas it you who told Basque not to make a fire then?\u201d", "\u201cYes, since we are now in the month of May.\u201d", "\u201cBut we have a fire until June. One is needed all the year in this cellar.\u201d", "\u201cI thought that a fire was unnecessary.\u201d", "\u201cThat is exactly like one of your ideas!", "\u201cMy husband said a queer thing to me yesterday.\u201d", "\u201cIt was I who told Basque to remove them.\u201d", "\u201cI have only a few minutes to stay to-day.\u201d", "\u201cA brief stay is no reason for remaining standing.\u201d", "\u201cI think that Basque needed the chairs for the drawing-room.\u201d", "\u201cTo have the chairs carried off! The other day you had the fire put out. How odd you are!\u201d", "\u201cMonsieur Jean has not been here today.\u201d", "\u201cHow good you were to come back before Christmas! I quite dreaded the Holidays without you. You\u2019ve helped me over a good many Christmases.", "\u201cAs if you needed me for that! But, at any rate, I needed you. How well you are looking, my dear, and how rested.\u201d", "\u201cThat means that I was looking very seedy at the end of the season, doesn\u2019t it? Well, we must show wear at last, you know.\u201d", "\u201cAh, no need to remind a man of seventy, who has just been home to find that he has survived all his contemporaries. I was most gently treated \u2014 as a sort of precious relic. But, do you know, it made me feel awkward to be hanging about still.\u201d", "\u201cSeventy? Never mention it to me.", "\u201cYou\u2019ve got to hang about for me, you know. I can\u2019t even let you go home again. You must stay put, now that I have you back. You\u2019re the realest thing I have.\u201d", "\u201cDear me, am I? Out of so many conquests and the spoils of conquered cities! You\u2019ve really missed me? Well, then, I shall hang. Even if you have at last to put ME in the mummy-room with the others. You\u2019ll visit me often, won\u2019t you?\u201d", "\u201cEvery day in the calendar. Here, your cigarettes are in this drawer, where you left them.", "\u201cBut you did, after all, enjoy being at home again?\u201d", "\u201cOh, yes. I found the long railway journeys trying. People live a thousand miles apart. But I did it thoroughly; I was all over the place. It was in Boston I lingered longest.\u201d", "\u201cI should really have liked to go up there. That was where I had my last long talk with him. But Mrs. Alexander never suggested it.\u201d", "\u201cWhy? Why, dear me, I don\u2019t know. She probably never thought of it.\u201d", "\u201cI don\u2019t know what made me say that. I didn\u2019t mean to interrupt. Go on please, and tell me how it was.\u201d", "\u201cWith a difference? Because of her, you mean?\u201d", "\u201cSomething like that, yes. Of course, as time goes on, to her he becomes more and more their simple personal relation.\u201d", "\u201cYou didn\u2019t altogether like that? You felt it wasn\u2019t wholly fair to him?\u201d", "\u201cOh, fair enough. More than fair. Of course, I always felt that my image of him was just a little different from hers. No relation is so complete that it can hold absolutely all of a person. And I liked him just as he was; his deviations, too; the places where he didn\u2019t square.\u201d", "\u201cPerhaps she\u2019s afraid of letting him out a little, of sharing him with somebody.\u201d", "\u201cYes, I know, I know. Only I can\u2019t help being glad that there was something for him even in stupid and vulgar people. My little Marie worshiped him. When she is dusting I always know when she has come to his picture.\u201d", "\u201cnothing can happen to one after Bartley.\u201d", "\u201cCan I find out? Is there any way in which I can comfort her? I wish mother were here. There is no doubt she is carrying a terrible heavy burden, and she won\u2019t let anyone help her. What did that letter mean?\u201d", "\u201cShe won\u2019t let me comfort her, and it is dreadful to see that dull look of agony and suffering in her eyes,", "\u201cyou will be sure to be ready to go with me to East Hall this evening?\u201d", "\u201cI noticed that she was standing by the door when the principal sounded the gong.\u201d", "\u201cAll the same, she does not always hear what is said,", "\u201cShe lives in a wonderful and strange world of her own. I often doubt if she notices what goes on around her.\u201d", "\u201cWell, then, you had better remind her. By the way, do you object to us also coming with you to East Hall this evening?\u201d", "\u201cI have not seen much of Miss Lauderdale yet, and am most anxious to hear her speak to-night. I wonder what she can want with us all?\u201d", "\u201cand besides it only wastes time. What do you mean to do this afternoon, Miss Gilroy?\u201d", "\u201cWell then, won\u2019t you come out on the water with us. You have passed your swimming test, so it is all right. Belle Acheson will be with us; we should like you to know her.\u201d", "\u201cWe ought to be ready to start for East Hall at 8.25,", "\u201cYou will be quite ready then, won\u2019t you, Annie dear? I\u2019ll put out your dress, and leave everything quite nice and neat for you.\u201d", "\u201cI do wish, Leslie Gilroy, you would not worry me.\u201d", "\u201cOf course if you really feel that I worry you, I had better leave you alone.\u201d", "\u201cAh! thank goodness you are going,", "\u201cDon\u2019t you think, Annie, you are a little unkind to me?", "\u201cOh, what does a little unkindness matter?", "\u201cDo you mind, as you are leaving the room, shutting that window. I have been enduring the tortures of a draught for the last hour, and have lately been suffering from neuralgia.\u201d", "\u201cwhy did you not tell me so, or,", "\u201cI think it well to tell you; you must be prepared for a very peculiar person. But you look worried, Miss Gilroy; is anything wrong?\u201d", "\u201cI am a little anxious about Annie Colchester.\u201d", "\u201cThat queer, red-haired girl? I saw her in chapel on Sunday.\u201d", "\u201cbut I don\u2019t think she is quite well, and I wish she would not work so hard. However, I won\u2019t think of her now. I cannot do anything to help her just at present, and I mean to enjoy myself.\u201d", "\u201cThen had not you better come down to the quay. I told the other girls I would bring you. The boat we are to have this afternoon is the Merry Alice. Did you pass your swimming test well?\u201d", "\u201cI passed it last week, and was crowned with honors,", "\u201cCome on in front, please; I have something I specially wish to say to you on the subject of a life of absolute devotion. Those great truths which ought to agitate the souls of each man and woman worthy of the name have been specially borne in upon me during the last few hours. I have just been reading a passage which I should be glad to repeat to you.\u201d", "\u201cand to you, too, Miss Gilroy. Did I not tell you she was an oddity.\u201d", "\u201cdon\u2019t laugh at poor Belle; don\u2019t prejudice Miss Gilroy against her. If everybody else was quite as earnest and sincere, what a different world it would be!\u201d", "\u201cI have submitted for one hour, under protest.\u201d", "\u201cWhether I succeed or not remains to be proved.\u201d", "\u201cbut really, Belle Acheson, you are too absurd for anything.\u201d", "\u201cbut how can you know, as you have never seen me before, whether mine is an earnest character or not?\u201d", "\u201cAh, you little guess my capacity,", "\u201cWe should all be in that bindweed at the other side of the river by now.\u201d", "\u201cdo, please, come down from the clouds. We were so anxious to introduce you to Miss Gilroy, and I am afraid you are frightening her. Don\u2019t be quite so \u2014 so outr\u00e9 during your first interview.\u201d", "\u201cMiss Gilroy, whatever happens, I cannot but be myself.", "\u201cLet us quote from Longfellow now; it would be most appropriate,", "\u201cI am sorry that you have interrupted me with that very silly remark. As to the young person in the stern, I refuse to acknowledge her existence; but you, Marjorie, are laughing at me.\u201d", "\u201cI am sure you mean very well, indeed, and in some ways I agree with you. I also want to lead the earnest life.\u201d", "\u201cDo you? Is that a fact? Tell me how you furnish your room?\u201d", "\u201cBut I cannot imagine what that has to do with it,", "\u201cA vast deal, for it shows the real inclination of the soul. Is the soul going to steep itself in luxury, or is it going to cast away all hindrances, and run its race in fullness, in power? Is it to be clogged and hindered? Speak; don\u2019t keep me in suspense. How have you furnished your room?\u201d", "\u201cMy half-room \u2014 I only possess half a room \u2014 was furnished for me by the governors of the college,", "\u201cIt is true that I have added a few things, for I like pretty rooms. I like to look nice myself. My mother has always taught me to pay a great deal of attention to personal appearance.\u201d", "\u201cShe is full of earnestness; but she goes too far.\u201d", "\u201cFor goodness\u2019 sake, don\u2019t let her hear you. Her eyes are closed for the present, and she is only muttering to herself. What a comfort if she remains in that state for the rest of our row!\u201d", "\u201cwhat are you doing now? You are saying something; what is it?\u201d", "\u201cWhen my nerves are ruffled, I always find that recitation is the greatest help to me,", "\u201cI am reciting at the present moment a poem from one of our great writers. The frivolous fact that I am out on the water, being rowed by you and Eileen, that I am wasting some of the precious hours of a golden day, must be counteracted as far as possible. But stay; would you two girls,", "\u201cwould you two like me to recite aloud the poem in question?\u201d", "\u201cthat the remark of the young person who holds the tiller-ropes ought to be considered. What do you two say?\u201d", "\u201cOf course Eileen and I would like it very much,", "\u201cbut Leslie is our guest, and we must consult her.\u201d", "\u201cbut perhaps, as you say, she is your guest. Well, I submit. My disappointment has been deep with regard to Miss Gilroy.\u201d", "\u201cWhether you are disappointed in me or not, please try to enlighten me by your recitation,", "\u201c\u2018Either Truth, Goodness, Virtue are not still The self-same which they are, and always one, But alter to the project of our will; Or we our actions make them wait upon, Putting them in the livery of our skill, And cast them off again when we have done.\u2019\u201d", "\u201cFor goodness\u2019 sake, sit still, or we\u2019ll be upset,", "\u201cIn addition to poetry of the Middle Ages, a ducking is more than I am prepared for.\u201d", "\u201c\u2018And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world; which with a few Do ever live, and move, and work, and stir. This is the heart doth feel, and only know; The rest of all that only bodies bear, Roll up and down, and fill up but the row.\u2019\u201d", "\u201cand I quite see the allusion to myself. I am one of those who but a body bear, roll up and down, and fill up but the row.\u201d", "\u201cNotwithstanding the disappointment you gave me with regard to your room,", "\u201cI have not the slightest doubt that you understand what Musophilus alludes to?\u201d", "\u201cTo a certain extent, yes,", "\u201cCome to my room to-morrow; I shall see you alone. Don\u2019t fail to be with me between half-past two and three.\u201d", "\u201cI pity you from my soul; you have done for yourself now.\u201d", "\"So we figured when we found the stiffs maybe you'd come back, Mother. Damn good thing we were right. We can sure use that ammunition you found. Now, where's this Gordon fellow?\"", "\"I'll be doggoned. Whyn't you say he was with Murdoch?\"", "\"They want someone to locate Ed Praeger and see about getting some food shipped in from outside, cobber,", "\"They got some money scraped together, but the hicks are doing no business with Marsport. You know Ed -- just tell him I sent you. I'd go myself, but I'm getting too old to go chasing men out there.\"", "\"Well, you'll be earning your keep here -- yours and that granddaughter's, too. Here -- you'll need directions for finding Praeger.\"", "\"Remember you with Murdoch, anyhow. And you can tell Praeger we got plenty of men looking for work, in case he can use 'em.\"", "\"Extra air inside, and the best we could do for food. Was gonna try myself, but I don't know Praeger,", "\"Good luck, Gordon -- and damn it, we're -- we gotta eat, don't we? You tell him that! It ain't much -- but get what you can!\"", "\"You won't find Praeger on his farm -- couldn't reach it in that, anyhow,", "\"Ed! Hey, Ed!\"", "\"I can get the stuff sent, Gordon. I'm head of the shipping committee for this quadrant. But why in hell should I? The last time, every car was looted in Outer Marsport. If they won't let us get the oil and chemicals we need, why should we feed them?\"", "\"Hell, who wouldn't loot your trains if that's going on?\"", "\"All right, if Mother Corey'll back up this volunteer police group. I've got kids of my own.... Look, you want food, we want to ship. Get your cops to give us an escort for every shipment through to the dome, and we'll drop off one car out of four for the outlands.\"", "\"Provided the first shipment carries the most we can get for the credits I brought.\"", "\"It will -- we've got some stuff that's about to spoil, and we can let you have a whole train of it.", "\"A damned good thing Security's sending a ship. Credits won't be worth much until they get this mess straightened out.\"", "\"What makes you think Security can do anything? They haven't shown a hand yet.\"", "\"You guys in Marsport feed yourselves so many lies you begin to believe them. But Security took Venus -- and I'm not worried here, in the long run. Don't ask me how.\"", "\"And news for the paper, if I ever publish it again. I came over because I wasn't much use at the Coop, and everyone else was busy.\"", "\"Running Outer Marsport. The Mother's the only man everybody knows, I guess -- and his word has never been broken that anyone can remember. So he's helping Schulberg make agreements with the sections the volunteers don't handle. Place is lousy with people now. Heard about Mayor Wayne?\"", "\"He must have had his supply of drugs lifted somehow. He holed up one day, until it really hit him that he couldn't get any more. Then he went gunning for Trench, with some idea Trench had swiped the stuff -- so Trench is now running the Municipals. And I hear the gangs are just about in control of both sections, lately.\"", "\"Forget all you're thinking, Cuddles. I'm still not bothering unwilling women -- and I'll even close my eyes when you dress.\"", "\"They called it bundling once, I think. I -- Bruce, I know you don't like me, so I guess it isn't too hard for you. But -- sometimes ... Oh, damn it! Sometimes you're -- nice!\"", "\"Nice people don't get to Mars. They stay on Earth, being careful not to find out what it's like up here,", "\"I know. The Kid -- Rusty's friend -- wrote down what they did to him.\"", "\"You know enough about Security badges to know they can't be forged. That one has my name on it, and rating as a Prime. Do you want to shoot me, or will you follow orders?\"", "\"I lost connection years ago, Gordon. But this makes you my boss.\"", "\"Then give it all the publicity you can, and tell them Security has just declared war on the whole damned dome section! Mother, I want all the dope we found!", "\"After your deal with Praeger, we'd probably follow you anyhow. I don't cotton to Security, Gordon -- but those devils in there are making our kids starve!\"", "\"Is it true about Security sending a ship?", "\"Who knows? Who cares? I'll see that they know you weren't guilty, though. Stop worrying about it.\"", "\u201cIt\u2019s really quite the best thing MacConnell\u2019s done,", "\u201cWhy, I haven\u2019t heard of her for \u2014 years.\u201d", "\u201cThen you can\u2019t have heard much at all, my dear Alexander. It\u2019s only lately, since MacConnell and his set have got hold of her, that she\u2019s come up. Myself, I always knew she had it in her. If we had one real critic in London \u2014 but what can one expect? Do you know, Alexander,", "\u201cdo you know, I sometimes think of taking to criticism seriously myself. In a way, it would be a sacrifice; but, dear me, we do need some one.\u201d", "\u201cthere\u2019s small probability of her recognizing me. She doubtless hasn\u2019t thought of me for years.", "\u201cMacConnell, let me introduce Mr. Bartley Alexander. I say! It\u2019s going famously to-night, Mac. And what an audience! You\u2019ll never do anything like this again, mark me. A man writes to the top of his bent only once.\u201d", "\u201cAnd have I done anything so fool as that, now?", "\u201cAnd you\u2019ll never bring Hilda out like this again. Dear me, Mac, the girl couldn\u2019t possibly be better, you know.\u201d", "\u201cShe\u2019ll do well enough if she keeps her pace and doesn\u2019t go off on us in the middle of the season, as she\u2019s more than like to do.\u201d", "\u201cShe\u2019s an elegant little person, and quite capable of an extravagant bit of sentiment like that. Here comes Sir Harry Towne. He\u2019s another who\u2019s awfully keen about her. Let me introduce you. Sir Harry Towne, Mr. Bartley Alexander, the American engineer.\u201d", "\u201cI say, Sir Harry, the little girl\u2019s going famously to-night, isn\u2019t she?\u201d", "\u201cDo you know, I thought the dance a bit conscious to-night, for the first time. The fact is, she\u2019s feeling rather seedy, poor child. Westmere and I were back after the first act, and we thought she seemed quite uncertain of herself. A little attack of nerves, possibly.\u201d", "\u201cYou know Lord Westmere, of course, \u2014 the stooped man with the long gray mustache, talking to Lady Dowle. Lady Westmere is very fond of Hilda.\u201d", "\u201cNo, I think not, though I am glad you ask me. You see, one can\u2019t be jealous about things in general; but about particular, definite, personal things,", "\u201coh, about those I should be very jealous. I should torture myself \u2014 I couldn\u2019t help it.", "'Now, my dear, this sort of thing is all very well, no doubt; but I don't care about it. I'", "'he was merely unwilling to spoil the drugget, he might easily remove his boots, which were extremely muddy -- for a monarch's.'", "'I did not intend to chide you. It is only that I have grown so accustomed to the frugal, hardy life of a camp, that I have imbibed a soldier's contempt for luxury.'", "'might we beg you to favour us with a prediction -- just a little one?'", "'a proud and stately pile -- but enter not. See ye yon ghoul among the chimney-pots, yon amphisboena in the back garden? And the scent of gore pervades it!'", "'It is no happy home that is thus described!", "'But the Finger of Fate is slowly unwound, and the Hand of Destiny steps in to pace the marble halls with heavy tramp. And know, old men, that the Inevitable is not wholly unconnected with the Probable!'", "'Who is this that I see next -- this regal warrior bounding over the blazing battlements in brazen panoply?'", "'but if she means to behave like that here -- well!'", "'Hi, here, somebody -- help! They've turned on the hot water, and I can't turn it off again!'", "'Agamemnon is with his ancestors,", "'I sewed up the sleeves of his bathing-gown and I drugged his coffee, and then from afar I turned on the hot water. And he is boiled, and it serves him right, and I'", "'the deed was a hasty one, and accomplished without sufficient consideration.'", "'so ye would rate me like a girl! Am I not your sovereign mistress? Guard, seize these insolents!'", "'I am sure you will all be very sorry and disappointed to hear that your beloved sovereign, so lately restored to us", "'That comes so well from you, does it not?", "'Bah! why play the hypocrite with me?'", "'that you can suspect me of not having been near Troy all this time -- tell me, Clytemnestra -- is this monstrous thing possible?'", "'What -- when I tell you that there is a poet, a fellow called Homer or something, who has got a sort of reputation already by putting the campaign into verses, rather long, but quite readable (you must order them); well, there's a lot about me in them.'", "'Now that's a most ridiculous question,", "'the poet's blind, Clytemnestra, quite blind. But I will not argue -- you must be content with a warrior's assurance.'", "'and now what have you to say for yourself? I don't believe there is any such place as Troy.'", "'I will have no little characters in my palace, Agamemnon.'", "'excuse me, but I cannot help thinking that the means devised for my correction were unnecessarily severe!'", "'why not let bygones be bygones?", "\u201cIt really would be a relief to that whole family if poor, dear Mrs. Shaw could be ahem! mercifully removed,", "\u201cDear, dear! how old and bent poor father does look. I hope he won't forget to order my sweetbread,", "\u201cI'll see to your sweetbread, mum. Good-by, back to dinner,", "\u201cHe has a right to be ashamed of me, but I act as if I was ashamed of him; dare say people think so. I'll show them that I ain't; yes, by the powers, I will!", "\u201cHave an arm, sir? If you don't mind I'll walk down with you. Little commission for mother, nice day, is n't it?\u201d", "\u201cThanky, Tom; yes, mother will enjoy her dinner twice as much if you order it.\u201d", "\u201cThat's the son; it's hard on him. Wild fellow, do him good.\u201d", "\u201cGranted; but you need n't hit a man when he's down,", "\u201cGracious me, Tom, don't come now; we are awful busy! Men don't belong in kitchens,", "\u201cCould n't think what you were about. Mum is asleep, and Fan out, so I loafed down to see if there was any fun afoot,", "\u201cCome in if you like, and stir this cake for me; it needs a strong hand, and mine are tired. There, put on that apron to keep you tidy, sit here, and take it easy.\u201d", "\u201cI used to help grandma bat up cake, and rather liked it, if I remember right,", "\u201cYou do it beautifully, Tom. I'll give you a conundrum to lighten your labor: Why are bad boys like cake?", "\u201cBecause a good beating makes them better. I doubt that myself, though,", "\u201cBright boy! here's a plum for you,", "\u201cPut in lots, won't you? I'm rather fond of plum-cake,", "\u201cI always do, if I can; there's nothing I like better than to shovel in sugar and spice, and make nice, plummy cake for people. It's one of the few things I have a gift for.\u201d", "\u201cYou've hit it this time, Polly; you certainly have a gift for putting a good deal of both articles into your own and other people's lives, which is lucky, as, we all have to eat that sort of cake, whether we like it or not,", "\u201cThat's more in your line, ma'am; can't you give us a sermon?\u201d", "\u201cA short one. Life, my brethren, is like plum-cake,", "\u201cThat's a model sermon, Polly, short, sweet, sensible, and not a bit sleepy. I'm one of your parish, and will see that you get your'celery punctooal,' as old Deacon Morse used to say.\u201d", "\u201c'Thank you, brother, my wants is few, and ravens scurser than they used to be,' as dear old Parson Miller used to answer. Now, Maud, bring on the citron;", "\u201cNow make your custards, dear; Tom may like to beat the eggs for you; it seems to have a good effect upon his constitution.\u201d", "\u201cBy the way, Syd's got back. I met him yesterday, and he treated me like a man and a brother,", "\u201cCareless thing! Pick it up, Maud, I'll get some more;", "\u201cI just want to know if there really was a man named Sir Philip, in the time of Queen Elizabeth.\u201d", "\u201cYou mean Sir Philip Sidney? Yes, he lived then and a fine old fellow he was too.\u201d", "\u201cThere; I knew the girls did n't mean him,", "\u201cWhat mischief are you up to now, you little magpie?\u201d", "\u201cLook here, you are letting cats out of the bag. Never mind, I thought so. They don't tell us their secrets, but we are so sharp, we can't help finding them out, can we?", "\u201cWell, 'pears to me Polly did; she talked most, and looked funny and very happy all the time. Fan laughed a good deal, but I guess Polly is the loveress,", "\u201cFan's got the books and maps you wanted. Go and rest now. I'm much obliged; here's your wages, Bridget.\u201d", "\u201cto be nearly killed with kindness,", "\u201cName, age, and date, like a nice white tombstone,", "\u201cI did n't know what to give you, for you've got everything a man wants, and I was in despair till I remembered that dear grandma always made you a little cake like that, and that you once said it would n't be a happy birthday without it. So I tried to make it just like hers, and I do hope it will prove a good, sweet, plummy one.\u201d", "\u201cIt ought to be good, for you beat it up yourself, Tom,", "\u201cIt was so funny to see you working away, and never guessing who the cake was for. I perfectly trembled every time you opened your mouth, for fear you'd ask some question about it. That was the reason Polly preached and I kept talking when she was gone.\u201d", "\u201cVery stupid of me; but I forgot all about to-day. Suppose we cut it; I don't seem to care for anything else,", "\u201cI hope the plums won't all be at the bottom,", "\u201cI've had a good many at the top already, you know,", "\u201cPlums all through; I'm glad I had a hand in it, but Polly deserves the credit, and must wear the posy,", "\u201cDo run! I'm perfectly fainting to know what the matter is,", "\u201cHe don't want me; besides, I could n't say a word for myself if that letter was from Sydney,", "\u201cYes. Come in, please, and don't look scared; I only want to show you a present I've had, and ask your advice about accepting it.\u201d", "\u201cWhy, Tom, you look as if you had been knocked down!", "\u201cI have; regularly floored; but I'm up again, and steadier than ever. Just you read that, and tell me what you think of it.\u201d", "\u201cI think she is a mercenary, heartless, ungrateful girl! That's what I think.\u201d", "\u201cOh, the deuce! I did n't mean to show that one; it's the other.", "\u201cI don't care, though; every one will know to-morrow; and perhaps you'll be good enough to keep the girls from bothering me with questions and gabble,", "\u201cI don't wonder you looked upset. If the other letter is as bad, I'd better have a chair before I read it,", "\u201cIt's a million times better, but it knocked me worse than the other; kindness always does.", "\u201cWhenever I was in a quandary, I used to go and consult grandma, and she always had something sensible or comfortable to say to me. She's gone now, but somehow, Polly, you seem to take her place. Would you mind sitting in her chair, and letting me tell you two or three things, as Will does?\u201d", "\u201cI'll do my best, but I can't fill grandma's place, or give you any wise, good advice. I wish I could!\u201d", "\u201cOh, Tom, that's a birthday present worth having, for it's so beautifully given I don't see how you can refuse it. Arthur Sydney is a real nobleman!", "\u201cSo he is! I don't know another man living, except father, who would have done such a thing, or who I could bring myself to take it from. Do you see, he's not only paid the confounded debts, but has done it in my name, to spare me all he could?\u201d", "\u201cI see, it's like him; and I think he must be very happy to be able to do such a thing.\u201d", "\u201cIt is an immense weight off my shoulders, for some of those men could n't afford to wait till I'd begged, borrowed, or earned the money. Sydney can wait, but he won't long, if I know myself.", "\u201cThen don't think I will. I'm a pretty poor affair, Polly, but I'm not mean enough to do that, while I've got a conscience and a pair of hands.\u201d", "\u201cI've had so many plans in my head lately, that sometimes it seems as if it would split,", "\u201cI've thought seriously of going to California, Australia, or some out-of-the-way place, where men get rich in a hurry.\u201d", "\u201cIt would be hard on mother and the girls, I suppose; besides, I don't quite like it myself; looks as if I shirked and ran away.\u201d", "\u201cNot a bit, and I quite agree with you.\u201d", "\u201cIf you really mean work, I know you could,", "\u201cI wish you could be with Ned; you'd get on together, I'm sure; and he'd be so glad to do anything he could. I'll write and ask, straight away, if you want me to.\u201d", "\u201cSuppose you do; just for information, you know, then I shall have something to go upon. I want to have a feasible plan all ready, before I speak to father. There's nothing so convincing to business men as facts, you know.\u201d", "\u201cThat will be wise. Do you think your father will like this plan?\u201d", "\u201cPretty sure he will. Yesterday, when I told him I must go at something right off, he said, 'Anything honest, Tom, and don't forget that your father began the world as a shop-boy.' You knew that, did n't you?\u201d", "\u201cYes, he told me the story once, and I always liked to hear it, because it was pleasant to see how well he had succeeded.\u201d", "\u201cI'm so glad to hear you say that, Tom! I've sometimes thought you did n't quite appreciate your father, any more than he knew how much of a man you were.\u201d", "\u201cOdd, is n't it, how people live together ever so long, and don't seem to find one another out, till something comes to do it for them. Perhaps this smash-up was sent to introduce me to my own father.\u201d", "\u201cWell, it did me; for you know as soon as we came to grief I offered to release Trix from the engagement, and she would n't let me,", "\u201cSo it did me, for Fan always insisted it was the money and not the man she cared for. Her first answer pleased me very much, for I did not expect it, and nothing touches a fellow more than to have a woman stand by him through thick and thin.\u201d", "\u201cIt never rains but it pours, 'specially in hard times, but when a man is down, a rap or two more don't matter much, I suppose. It's the first blow that hurts most.\u201d", "\u201cGlad to see you take the last blow so well.", "\u201cThat's very good of you, quite Sydneyesque, and noble,", "\u201cIt will be all plain sailing for Syd, I fancy,", "\u201cHe deserves the very best of everything, and I pray the Lord he may get it,", "\u201cYou'll write to Ned to-morrow, will you? I'll take anything he's got, for I want to be off,", "\u201cI'll write to-night. Would you like me to tell the girls about Trix and Sydney?", "\u201cI wish you would. I don't know how to thank you for all you've done for me; I wish to heaven I did,", "\u201cI beg pardon could n't help it grandma always let me on my birthday.\u201d", "\u201cOh, yes, they asked me to say nothing; and to please them \u2014 so long as they were there \u2014 of course I promised. But what had happened to you?\u201d", "\u201cFor not alluding to your leaving us? Yes; they said you would like it better. Do you like it better?\u201d", "\u201cNo, I like it worse!", "\u201cDid they say why I should like it better?\u201d", "\u201cNo; Master Miles only said, \u2018We must do nothing but what she likes!\u2019\u201d", "\u201cI wish indeed he would. And what did Flora say?\u201d", "\u201cMiss Flora was too sweet. She said, \u2018Oh, of course, of course!\u2019 \u2014 and I said the same.\u201d", "\u201cYou were too sweet, too \u2014 I can hear you all. But nonetheless, between Miles and me, it\u2019s now all out.\u201d", "\u201cEverything. It doesn\u2019t matter. I\u2019ve made up my mind. I came home, my dear,", "\u201cA talk! Do you mean she spoke?\u201d", "\u201cIt came to that. I found her, on my return, in the schoolroom.\u201d", "\u201cAs I\u2019ve told you, however, it doesn\u2019t matter.\u201d", "\u201cBecause you\u2019ve made up your mind? But to what?\u201d", "\u201cAnd what do you call \u2018everything\u2019?\u201d", "\u201cWhy, sending for their uncle.\u201d", "\u201cOh, miss, in pity do,", "\u201cWhy, the letter from his old place.\u201d", "\u201cI ought to have done so on the instant.\u201d", "\u201cFor we\u2019ve never in the least known what!", "\u201cit\u2019s their uncle\u2019s fault. If he left here such people \u2014 !\u201d", "\u201cHe didn\u2019t really in the least know them. The fault\u2019s mine.", "\u201cYou needn\u2019t tell him anything. I\u2019ll tell him.\u201d", "\u201cI tell the bailiff. He writes.\u201d", "\u201cAnd should you like him to write our story?\u201d", "\u201cAh, miss, you write!\u201d", "\u201cWell \u2014 tonight,", "\u201cGive me not poverty, lest I steal.\u201d", "\u201cTake the bundle; be quick; do it this moment.", "\u201cwhat am I now? a thief! Why, I shall be taken next time, and be carried to Newgate and be tried for my life!", "\u201cit may be some poor widow like me, that had packed up these goods to go and sell them for a little bread for herself and a poor child, and are now starving and breaking their hearts for want of that little they would have fetched.", "\u201cYes, my dear, it is; I\u2019ll show you the way home.", "\u201cGod bless you, mistress, let it lie there a little,", "\u201cNo, child; the boy is gone for a pint of ale for me.\u201d", "\u201cAnd have you brought it away with you, my dear?", "\u201cAy, if you are minded to be sent to Newgate for stealing it.", "\u201cthey can\u2019t be so base to stop me, when I carry it to them again?", "\u201cYou don\u2019t know those sort of people, child,", "\u201cthey\u2019ll not only carry you to Newgate, but hang you too, without any regard to the honesty of returning it; or bring in an account of all the other tankards they have lost, for you to pay for.", "\u201cas you have played the cunning part and stole it, you must e\u2019en keep it; there\u2019s no going back now. Besides, child,", "\u201cdon\u2019t you want it more than they do? I wish you could light of such a bargain once a week.\u201d", "\u201cthat is a trade I have no skill in, and if I should be taken I am undone at once.", "\u201cI could help you to a schoolmistress that shall make you as dexterous as herself.", "\u201cthen it was those rogues that thrust me down, I warrant ye; I wonder the gentlewoman did not miss her watch before, then we might have taken them.\u201d", "\u201cGo on, go on; you have had very good luck; go on till you have gotten four or five hundred pounds, and then you shall leave off, and then you may live easy without working at all.\u201d", "\u201cOh, what a grand thing to happen on a raw day! I felt it in my bones when I woke this morning that something splendid was going to turn up. I thought it might be Sister Kate or Cousin Mike would be happening along. I never dreamed it would be you, Bartley. But why do you let me chatter on like this? Come over to the fire; you\u2019re chilled through.\u201d", "\u201cWhen did you come, Bartley, and how did it happen? You haven\u2019t spoken a word.\u201d", "\u201cI got in about ten minutes ago. I landed at Liverpool this morning and came down on the boat train.\u201d", "\u201cThere\u2019s something troubling you, Bartley. What is it?\u201d", "\u201cIt\u2019s the whole thing that troubles me, Hilda. You and I.\u201d", "\u201cIt . . . it hasn\u2019t always made you miserable, has it?", "\u201cAlways. But it\u2019s worse now. It\u2019s unbearable. It tortures me every minute.\u201d", "\u201cEach life spoils the other. I get nothing but misery out of either. The world is all there, just as it used to be, but I can\u2019t get at it any more. There is this deception between me and everything.\u201d", "\u201cCould you \u2014 could you sit down and talk about it quietly, Bartley, as if I were a friend, and not some one who had to be defied?\u201d", "\u201cIt was myself I was defying, Hilda. I have thought about it until I am worn out.\u201d", "\u201cWhen did you first begin to feel like this, Bartley?\u201d", "\u201cAfter the very first. The first was \u2014 sort of in play, wasn\u2019t it?\u201d", "\u201cYes, I think it must have been. But why didn\u2019t you tell me when you were here in the summer?\u201d", "\u201cI meant to, but somehow I couldn\u2019t. We had only a few days, and your new play was just on, and you were so happy.\u201d", "\u201cYes, I was then. You know. But afterward. . .\u201d", "\u201cPlease tell me one thing, Bartley. At least, tell me that you believe I thought I was making you happy.\u201d", "\u201cI understand, Bartley. I was wrong. But I didn\u2019t know. You\u2019ve only to tell me now. What must I do that I\u2019ve not done, or what must I not do?", "\u201cYou want to tell me that you can only see me like this, as old friends do, or out in the world among people? I can do that.\u201d", "\u201cIt\u2019s got to be a clean break, Hilda. I can\u2019t see you at all, anywhere. What I mean is that I want you to promise never to see me again, no matter how often I come, no matter how hard I beg.\u201d", "\u201cYes, I know I\u2019m cowardly. I\u2019m afraid of myself. I don\u2019t trust myself any more. I carried it all lightly enough at first, but now I don\u2019t dare trifle with it. It\u2019s getting the better of me. It\u2019s different now. I\u2019m growing older, and you\u2019ve got my young self here with you. It\u2019s through him that I\u2019ve come to wish for you all and all the time.", "\u201cOh, Bartley, what am I to do? Why didn\u2019t you let me be angry with you? You ask me to stay away from you because you want me! And I\u2019ve got nobody but you. I will do anything you say \u2014 but that! I will ask the least imaginable, but I must have something!\u201d", "\u201cJust something Bartley. I must have you to think of through the months and months of loneliness. I must see you. I must know about you. The sight of you, Bartley, to see you living and happy and successful \u2014 can I never make you understand what that means to me?", "\u201cWe\u2019ve tortured each other enough for tonight. Forget everything except that I am here.\u201d", "\u201cI think I have forgotten everything but that already,", "\u201cIn that hut down by the ash-hopper. Why, looky here. When we was at dinner, didn\u2019t you see a nigger man go in there with some vittles?\u201d", "\u201cWhat did you think the vittles was for?\u201d", "\u201cSo\u2019d I. Well, it wasn\u2019t for a dog.\u201d", "\u201cBecause part of it was watermelon.\u201d", "\u201cSo it was \u2014 I noticed it. Well, it does beat all that I never thought about a dog not eating watermelon. It shows how a body can see and don\u2019t see at the same time.\u201d", "\u201cWork? Why, cert\u2019nly it would work, like rats a-fighting. But it\u2019s too blame\u2019 simple; there ain\u2019t nothing to it. What\u2019s the good of a plan that ain\u2019t no more trouble than that? It\u2019s as mild as goose-milk. Why, Huck, it wouldn\u2019t make no more talk than breaking into a soap factory.\u201d", "\u201cDon\u2019t you reckon I know what I\u2019m about? Don\u2019t I generly know what I\u2019m about?\u201d", "\u201cDidn\u2019t I say I was going to help steal the nigger?\u201d", "\u201cHere\u2019s the ticket. This hole\u2019s big enough for Jim to get through if we wrench off the board.\u201d", "\u201cIt\u2019s as simple as tit-tat-toe, three-in-a-row, and as easy as playing hooky. I should hope we can find a way that\u2019s a little more complicated than that, Huck Finn.\u201d", "\u201chow\u2019ll it do to saw him out, the way I done before I was murdered that time?\u201d", "\u201cIt\u2019s real mysterious, and troublesome, and good,", "\u201cbut I bet we can find a way that\u2019s twice as long. There ain\u2019t no hurry; le\u2019s keep on looking around.\u201d", "\u201cNow we\u2019re all right. We\u2019ll dig him out. It\u2019ll take about a week!\u201d", "\u201cWhat\u2019s the vittles for? Going to feed the dogs?\u201d", "\u201cYes, Mars Sid, a dog. Cur\u2019us dog, too. Does you want to go en look at \u2019im?\u201d", "\u201cYou going, right here in the daybreak? That warn\u2019t the plan.\u201d", "\u201cNo, it warn\u2019t; but it\u2019s the plan now.\u201d", "\u201cWhy, Huck! En good lan\u2019! ain\u2019 dat Misto Tom?\u201d", "\u201cWhy, de gracious sakes! do he know you genlmen?\u201d", "\u201cWhy, dis-yer runaway nigger.\u201d", "\u201cI don\u2019t reckon he does; but what put that into your head?\u201d", "\u201cWhat put it dar? Didn\u2019 he jis\u2019 dis minute sing out like he knowed you?\u201d", "\u201cWell, that\u2019s mighty curious. Who sung out? When did he sing out? what did he sing out?", "\u201cNo; I ain\u2019t heard nobody say nothing.\u201d", "\u201cNo, sah, I hain\u2019t said a word.\u201d", "\u201cDid you ever see us before?\u201d", "\u201cNo, sah; not as I knows on.\u201d", "\u201cWhat do you reckon\u2019s the matter with you, anyway? What made you think somebody sung out?\u201d", "\u201cI wonder if Uncle Silas is going to hang this nigger. If I was to catch a nigger that was ungrateful enough to run away, I wouldn\u2019t give him up, I\u2019d hang him.", "\u201cDon\u2019t ever let on to know us. And if you hear any digging going on nights, it\u2019s us; we\u2019re going to set you free.\u201d", "\"You five will come with me. I'm going to show how we operate. The rest of you can team up any way you want tonight, pick any route that's open. Okay, men, let's go.\"", "\"Then you should be ashamed to be in this mess. But whatever your reasons, you'll be useful. Take those two and give them some lessons, while I do the same with these.\"", "\"But it has to be good. Go in for business, and don't stop just because the other guy quits. Give them hell!\"", "\"Take him aside. Names.\"", "\"I want the name of every man in the gang you can remember,", "\"Colonel, they'd kill me! I don't know.\"", "\"If he should turn up dead, I'll know you boys are responsible, and I'll find you. Now get out of this district, or get honest jobs! Because every time one of my men sees one of you, this will happen again. And you can pass the word along that the Stonewall gang is dead!\"", "\"I've heard the theory, but never saw it in practice. Suppose the whole gang jumps us at once?\"", "\"Then we're taken. The old book I got the idea from didn't mention that.\"", "\"Get a stretcher, and take him wherever he belongs,", "\"I'm leaving you two able to walk for that. But if you get caught again, you'll get still worse.\"", "\"I've got a yellow ticket, from Security.\"", "\"So you're that Gordon? But you're still a good cop.\"", "\"What makes you think Wayne will be re-elected? Nobody wants him, except a gang of crooks and those in power.\"", "\"Ever see a Martian election? No, you're a firster. He can't lose! And then hell is going to pop, and this whole planet may be blown wide open!\"", "\"Nope. Because Izzy is always honest, according to how he sees it. But you got Earth ideas of the stuff, like I had once. Too bad.", "\"Go, fetch me the man who is repeating this poetry!", "\"Of a truth I heard him not and I wot him not and folks are all sleeping.", "\"Whomsoever thou seest awake, he is the reciter.", "\"Art thou he who repeated poetry but now and my lady heard him?", "\"Who then was the reciter?: point him out to me. Thou must know who it was, seeing that thou art awake.", "\"Haply the Eunuch will do him some hurt", "\"By Allah, I know not who it was.", "\"By Allah, thou liest, for there is none on wake here but thou! So needs must thou know him.", "\"I tell thee the truth!: some passer by, some wayfarer must have recited the verses and disturbed me and kept me awake; Allah requite him!", "\"If thou happen upon him, point him out to me and I will lay hands on him and bring him to the door of our lady's litter[FN#309] or do thou take him with thine own hand.", "\"Go thou back and I will bring him to thee.", "\"None knoweth who it was; it must have been some passer by, some wayfarer.", "\"I have a mind to repeat somewhat of poetry, that I may quench therewith the fire of my heart.", "\"Thou knowest not what befel me whilst thou wast a faint, and how I escaped death only by beguiling the Eunuch.", "\"Who is it would forbid me to recite? I will surely recite, befal me what may; for I am near mine own land and care for none.", "\"Thy design is naught save to lose thy life;", "\"Needs must I recite verses.", "\"I will not be turned away from my purpose.\"[FN#31", "\"Beware how thou come back to me and report, I could not find him.", "\"It was thou didst recite the verses!", "\"No, by Allah, O chief of the people, it was not I!", "\"I will not leave thee till thou show me who it was that recited the verses, for I dread returning to my lady without him.", "\"and tell my lady this with thine own mouth, for I have seen none awake save thyself.", "\"Come, sit up, that I may tell thee what hath happened.", "\"Let me alone; I will take no heed of this and I care for none, for I am mine own country.\"[FN#31", "\"and the mercy of Allah and His blessings!", "\"O my lord, I have sought thee these several times this night, for my mistress biddeth thee to her.", "\"And who be this bitch that seeketh for me? Allah curse her and curse her husband with her!\"[FN#31", "\"Alas the pity of his youth! To-morrow they will hang him.", "\"How base it will be of him, if he say it was I who bade him recite the verses!", "\"O my lady, I have brought thee him whom thou soughtest, and he is a youth, fair of face and bearing the marks of wealth and gentle breeding.", "\"Let him recite some verses, that I may hear him near hand, and after ask him his name and his condition and his native land.", "\"Recite what verses thou knowest, for my lady is here hard by, listening to thee, and after I will ask thee of thy name and thy native country and thy condition.", "\"Ask him if he have parted from one he loveth even as his mother or father.", "\"Yes, I have parted from every one I loved: but the dearest of all to me was my sister, from whom Fate hath separated me.", "\"Allah Almighty reunite him with what he loveth!", "\"Seemed in good spirits last night, Mr Gurr, eh?\"", "\"Yes, sir; but he may turn up on the cliff at any moment.\"", "\"Yes, sir; you did tell me. Soon as the signal comes, we shall push off. Awkward bit o' country, sir; six miles' row before you can find a place to land.\"", "\"Very awkward, but they have to find a place to land their spirits, Mr Gurr, and if we don't soon have something to show we shall be called to account.\"", "\"Very unlucky, sir. Seems to me like going eel-fishing with your bare hand.\"", "\"So shall we yet, sir. These fellows are very cunning, but we shall be too many for them one of these days.\"", "\"I don't like this at all I don't think I ought to have let a boy like that go alone. You don't think, Mr Gurr, that they would dare to injure him if he was so unlucky as to be caught?\"", "\"Smugglers are smugglers, indeed. What did you suppose I thought they were? Oysters?\"", "\"I shall be obliged to send you on shore, Mr Gurr. You must go and find him. I'm getting very anxious about Mr Raystoke.\"", "\"No, wait another half-hour. Very ill-advised thing to do. I cannot think what you were doing, Mr Gurr, to advise me to do such a thing.\"", "\"Yes. A great pity. I ought not to have listened to you; but in my anxiety to leave no stone unturned to capture some of these scoundrels, I was ready to do anything.\"", "\"Then I must request that you will not make it again. `Very true?' Of course, what I say is very true. Do you think I should say a thing that was false?\"", "\"Beg pardon, sir. 'Fraid I picked up some awk'ard expressions aboard the old frigate.\"", "\"I was trying to teach you to pronounce the king's English correctly, and you turn it off with a ribald remark.\"", "\"Beg pardon, sir. 'Nother o' my frigate bad habits.\"", "\"It is a great privilege, Mr Gurr, to be one of those who speak the English tongue, so do not abuse it. Say awk-ward in future, not awk'ard.\"", "\"Starboard, larboard, for'ard, back'ard, awk'ard. Why, what does he mean?\"", "\"why there's no bearing him to-day, and all on account of a scamp of a middy such as there's a hundred times too many on in the R'yal Navy. Dunno though; bit cocky and nose in air when he's in full uniform, and don't know which is head and which is his heels, but he aren't such a very bad sort o' boy. Well, what's the matter with you?\"", "\"Don't turn yourself into a figurehead of an old wreck sir. What do you want?\"", "\"What for? There aren't a public-house for ten miles.\"", "\"Then what did you mean? Speak out, and don't do the double shuffle all over my clean deck.\"", "\"Hopping about like a cat on hot bricks. Now, then, why do you want to go ashore?\"", "\"Try and find Mr Raystoke, sir. Beginning to feel scarred about him.\"", "\"don't you try to deceive me. You meant that you were getting uneasy about Mr Raystoke's prolonged absence.\"", "\"Then how dare you have the effrontery to tell me that you did not mean `nowt' as you have the confounded north country insolence to call it? For two pins, sir, -- women's pins, sir, not belaying pins, -- I'd have you put ashore, with orders not to show your dirty face again till you had found Mr Raystoke.\"", "\"No. Wait. Keep a sharp look-out on the cliff to see if Mr Raystoke is making signals for a boat. I daresay he has been there all the time, only you took up my attention with your chatter.\"", "\"I'm only going to say one thing to you in the way of instructions.\"", "\"Will you have the goodness to wait till I have done speaking, Mr Gurr, and not compel me to say all I wish over again?\"", "\"I say, sir, I have only one order to give you. Get ashore as soon as you can, and find and bring back Mr Raystoke.\"", "\"and I always thought him such a quiet, amiable little chap. He's a Tartar; that's what he is. Making all this fuss about a boy who, as like as not, is having a game with us. Don't see me getting out o' temper with everybody, and spitting and swearing like a mad Tom-cat. Hang the boy! He's on'y a middy. -- Now, my lads, -- now, my lads, put your backs into it, will you?\"", "\"talk about 'tacking the enemy, if wrong's happened to our young gentleman, all I can say is, as I hopes it's orders to land every night to burn willages and sack everything we can.\"", "\u201cI wish I had asked you to meet me at the office and walk home with me, Winifred. The Common is beautiful. The boys have swept the snow off the pond and are skating furiously. Did the cyclamens come?\u201d", "\u201cAn hour ago. What splendid ones! But aren\u2019t you frightfully extravagant?\u201d", "\u201cNot for Christmas-time. I\u2019ll go upstairs and change my coat. I shall be down in a moment. Tell Thomas to get everything ready.\u201d", "\u201cWhen did the azaleas get here? Thomas has got the white one in my room.\u201d", "\u201cBut, I say, it\u2019s much the finest of the lot!\u201d", "\u201cThat\u2019s why I had it put there. There is too much color in that room for a red one, you know.\u201d", "\u201cIt looks very splendid there, but I feel piggish to have it. However, we really spend more time there than anywhere else in the house. Will you hand me the holly?\u201d", "\u201cI forgot to tell you that I had a letter from Wilson, this morning, explaining his telegram. He is coming on because an old uncle up in Vermont has conveniently died and left Wilson a little money \u2014 something like ten thousand. He\u2019s coming on to settle up the estate. Won\u2019t it be jolly to have him?\u201d", "\u201cAnd how fine that he\u2019s come into a little money. I can see him posting down State Street to the steamship offices. He will get a good many trips out of that ten thousand. What can have detained him? I expected him here for luncheon.\u201d", "\u201cThose trains from Albany are always late. He\u2019ll be along sometime this afternoon. And now, don\u2019t you want to go upstairs and lie down for an hour? You\u2019ve had a busy morning and I don\u2019t want you to be tired to-night.\u201d", "\u201cHello, Wilson. What luck! Come into the library. We are to have a lot of people to dinner to-night, and Winifred\u2019s lying down. You will excuse her, won\u2019t you? And now what about yourself? Sit down and tell me everything.\u201d", "\u201cI think I\u2019d rather move about, if you don\u2019t mind. I\u2019ve been sitting in the train for a week, it seems to me.", "\u201cThank you, Wilson. She\u2019ll be as glad to see you. Shall we have tea now? I\u2019ll ring for Thomas to clear away this litter. Winifred says I always wreck the house when I try to do anything. Do you know, I am quite tired. Looks as if I were not used to work, doesn\u2019t it?", "\u201cAgain? Why, you\u2019ve been over twice since I was here in the spring, haven\u2019t you?\u201d", "\u201cOh, I was in London about ten days in the summer. Went to escape the hot weather more than anything else. I shan\u2019t be gone more than a month this time. Winifred and I have been up in Canada for most of the autumn. That Moorlock Bridge is on my back all the time. I never had so much trouble with a job before.", "\u201cHaven\u2019t I seen in the papers that there is some trouble about a tidewater bridge of yours in New Jersey?\u201d", "\u201cThese pink roses just came from Mrs. Hastings,", "\u201cHave you a moment, Winifred? I have just now been thinking that this is our twelfth Christmas. Can you realize it?", "\u201cThey\u2019ve been awfully happy ones, all of them, haven\u2019t they?", "\u201cYou are happy, aren\u2019t you Winifred? More than anything else in the world, I want you to be happy. Sometimes, of late, I\u2019ve thought you looked as if you were troubled.\u201d", "\u201cNo; it\u2019s only when you are troubled and harassed that I feel worried, Bartley. I wish you always seemed as you do to-night. But you don\u2019t, always.", "\u201cI\u2019m growing older, my dear; that\u2019s what you feel. Now, may I show you something? I meant to save them until to-morrow, but I want you to wear them to-night.", "\u201cWhere did you ever find such gold work, Bartley?\u201d", "\u201cThey are the most beautiful things, dear. But, you know, I never wear earrings.\u201d", "\u201cYes, yes, I know. But I want you to wear them. I have always wanted you to. So few women can. There must be a good ear, to begin with, and a nose", "\u201cabove reproach. Most women look silly in them. They go only with faces like yours \u2014 very, very proud, and just a little hard.\u201d", "\u201cOh, Bartley, that old foolishness about my being hard. It really hurts my feelings. But I must go down now. People are beginning to come.\u201d", "\u201cthat this should have happened to me!\u201d", "\u201cHere\u2019s a note from old Wilson. He\u2019s safe back at his grind, and says he had a bully time. \u2018The memory of Mrs. Bartley will make my whole winter fragrant.\u2019 Just like him. He will go on getting measureless satisfaction out of you by his study fire. What a man he is for looking on at life!", "\u201cThis is a nasty sort of day to sail. I\u2019ve a notion to call it off. Next week would be time enough.\u201d", "\u201cThat would only mean starting twice. It wouldn\u2019t really help you out at all,", "\u201cAnd you\u2019d come back late for all your engagements.\u201d", "\u201cI wish things would let me rest. I\u2019m tired of work, tired of people, tired of trailing about.", "\u201cThat\u2019s what you always say, poor Bartley! At bottom you really like all these things. Can\u2019t you remember that?\u201d", "\u201cAll the same, life runs smoothly enough with some people, and with me it\u2019s always a messy sort of patchwork. It\u2019s like the song; peace is where I am not. How can you face it all with so much fortitude?\u201d", "\u201cOh, I faced that long ago, when you were on your first bridge, up at old Allway. I knew then that your paths were not to be paths of peace, but I decided that I wanted to follow them.\u201d", "\u201cShall Edward bring down your trunks, sir?\u201d", "\u201cYes; they are ready. Tell him not to forget the big portfolio on the study table.\u201d", "\u201cI\u2019ll work like the devil, Winifred, and be home again before you realize I\u2019ve gone.", "\u201cYes \u2014 I took it.\u201d", "\u201cNothing, nothing!", "\u201cNothing, nothing,", "\u201cIs that what you did at school?\u201d", "\u201cDid you take letters? \u2014 or other things?\u201d", "\u201cWas it for that you mightn\u2019t go back?\u201d", "\u201cDid you know I mightn\u2019t go back?\u201d", "\u201cEverything. Therefore did you \u2014 ?", "\u201cNo. I didn\u2019t steal.\u201d", "\u201cWell \u2014 I said things.\u201d", "\u201cWell, I suppose I oughtn\u2019t.\u201d", "\u201cNo \u2014 only a few. Those I liked.\u201d", "\u201cAnd did they repeat what you said?", "\u201cthey must have repeated them. To those they liked,", "\u201cAnd these things came round \u2014 ?\u201d", "\u201cTo the masters? Oh, yes!", "\u201cThe masters? They didn\u2019t \u2014 they\u2019ve never told. That\u2019s why I ask you.\u201d", "\u201cYes, it was too bad.\u201d", "\u201cWhat I suppose I sometimes said. To write home.\u201d", "\u201cNo more, no more, no more!", "\u201cMiss Jessel, Miss Jessel!", "\u201cIt\u2019s not Miss Jessel! But it\u2019s at the window \u2014 straight before us. It\u2019s there \u2014 the coward horror, there for the last time!\u201d", "\u201cWhom do you mean by \u2018he\u2019?\u201d", "\u201cWhat does he matter now, my own? \u2014 what will he ever matter? I have you,", "\u201cbut he has lost you forever!", "\u201cwhen in the world, please, am I going back to school?\u201d", "\u201cYou know, my dear, that for a fellow to be with a lady always \u2014 !", "\u201cAnd always with the same lady?", "\u201cAh, of course, she\u2019s a jolly, \u2018perfect\u2019 lady; but, after all, I\u2019m a fellow, don\u2019t you see? that\u2019s \u2014 well, getting on.\u201d", "\u201cAnd you can\u2019t say I\u2019ve not been awfully good, can you?\u201d", "\u201cNo, I can\u2019t say that, Miles.\u201d", "\u201cExcept just that one night, you know \u2014 !\u201d", "\u201cWhy, when I went down \u2014 went out of the house.\u201d", "\u201cOh, yes. But I forget what you did it for.\u201d", "\u201cWhy, it was to show you I could!\u201d", "\u201cOh, yes, you could.\u201d", "\u201cCertainly. But you won\u2019t.\u201d", "\u201cNo, not that again. It was nothing.\u201d", "\u201cWere you very happy at school?\u201d", "\u201cOh, I\u2019m happy enough anywhere!\u201d", "\u201cif you\u2019re just as happy here \u2014 !\u201d", "\u201cBut you hint that you know almost as much?", "\u201cWell \u2014 I want to see more life.\u201d", "\u201cI see; I see.", "\u201cThere are not many of your own sort, Miles!", "\u201cYou really compare me to a baby girl?\u201d", "\u201cDon\u2019t you, then, love our sweet Flora?\u201d", "\u201cIf I didn\u2019t \u2014 and you, too; if I didn\u2019t \u2014 !", "\u201cWell, you know what!", "\u201cDoes my uncle think what you think?\u201d", "\u201cHow do you know what I think?\u201d", "\u201cAh, well, of course I don\u2019t; for it strikes me you never tell me. But I mean does he know?\u201d", "\u201cWhy, the way I\u2019m going on.\u201d", "\u201cI don\u2019t think your uncle much cares.\u201d", "\u201cThen don\u2019t you think he can be made to?\u201d", "\u201cWhy, by his coming down.\u201d", "'Now you'll see how artful she is; she's coming to ask you if she may go out. Listen. \"Please, Your Gracious Majesty, may I go out for a little while?\"'", "'This is even better than if I spoke myself,", "'he can talk for me, and I do believe I'", "'Of course you are. Go on; don't be silly; give her leave.'", "'Certainly, Ethelinda, if you wish it,", "'but I should like you to be in to prayers.'", "'A maid of honour isn't the same as a housemaid, you know,", "'but never mind -- she's off. You don't see where she goes, of course.'", "'Ah, but not in the game; nobody does. She goes to the apothecary's -- here's the apothecary.", "'I am a wicked doll! How convenient it is to have it all done for one like this! I do hope he's going to make me give Winifred some of that stuff, to get her out of the way, and have the romance all to our two selves.'", "'haven't the least idea of all this. But one day, the Court jester (", "'Now look here, Winnie, I can't have this sort of thing every minute. For a gentleman, it might be rather mean, perhaps, but then I'", "'Fun -- there's not much fun about her! Now the guard", "'arrests her. Do you want to ask the prisoner any questions? -- you can if you like.'", "'You -- you didn't mean to poison me really, did you, Ethelinda dear?", "'Archie, do make her say something!'", "'Why can't you answer when the Queen asks you a question, eh?", "'No, she won't say a word; she'll only grin at you; you see she's quite hardened. There's only one thing that would make her confess,", "'and that's the torture. I could make a beautiful rack, Winnie, if you didn't mind?'", "'No, no, Winnie. Look here, this is a serious thing, you know; it won't do to pass it over; it's high treason, and she'll have to be tried.'", "'Oh, very well then; I had better go downstairs again and read. The best part was all coming, but if you don't care, I'", "'she'll spoil the whole thing; every heroine has to be tried!'", "'Well, then, she shall be tried if you really think she ought to be, Archie; it won't hurt her though, will it?'", "'Of course it won't; it's all right. Now for the trial: here's the court, and here's a place for the judge", "'here's the dock -- stick Lady What's-her-name inside -- that's it. We must do without a jury, but I suppose we ought to have a judge; oh, this fellow will do for judge!'", "'judges make jokes sometimes -- I've heard papa say so, and he's a barrister, and ought to know.'", "'But this one doesn't make real jokes!", "'Who asked him to? Judges are not obliged to make jokes, Winnie. I believe you are trying to get her off, but I'", "'There, Archie, you can't say she didn't speak that time!'", "'If she'd confessed, we might have shown mercy. Now we shall have to prove it, and if we do I'", "'If she says \"Guilty, and she won't do it again!\"", "'You wait. I've been in court once or twice with papa, and seen him prove all sorts of things. First, we must have in the fellow who sold the poison -- the apothecary, you know. Oh, I say, though, I forgot that -- he's the judge; that won't do!'", "'Then you can't prove it after all -- I'", "'One would think you rather liked being poisoned,", "'I like magnesia, and it isn't poison, really -- it's medicine.'", "'You'll see; this is the judge talking now: \"Lady Ethelinda, you've been found guilty of very bad conduct; you've put arsenic in your beloved Queen's tea!\"'", "'m sorry to tell you that we shall have to cut your head off!\"'", "'it will all come right in the end; it always does.'", "'It will be all right, Winnie, if you will only leave it to me and not interfere. You promised not to interrupt, and yet you will keep on doing it!'", "'she's in prison now, languishing in her prison cell, and do you know, I rather think her heart's beginning to soften a little: she wants you to come and see her. You won't refuse her last request, Winnie, will you?'", "'I -- I can't, Archie!", "'m gone and mouldering away in my felon's grave it will be too late then, and you'll be sorry. It's the last thing I shall ever ask you!\"'", "'Oh, Ethelinda, darling, don't!", "'don't go on talking in that dreadful way; I can't bear it. Archie, I must forgive her now!'", "'she's quite good again. Now let's play at something not quite so horrid!'", "'When we've done with this, we will; but it isn't half over yet; there's all the execution to come. It's the fatal day now, the dismal scaffold is erected", "'the trembling criminal is brought out amidst the groans of the populace (groan, Winnie, can't you?)'", "'the end is to be a surprise, so I can't tell you what it is till it comes. You've heard of pardons arriving just in time, haven't you? Very well then. Only I don't say one will arrive here, you know, I only say, wait!'", "'m the headsman; and -- and I say, Winnie, perhaps you'd better hide your face now; a queen wouldn't look on at the execution, really; at least a nice queen wouldn't!'", "'is led tottering to the block, and then the headsman, very respectfully, cuts off some of her beautiful golden hair, so that it shouldn't get in his way.'", "'This is the head of a traitress!'", "'or I might be recognised -- executioners had to be masked. I'll tie a handkerchief over my eyes and that will have to do.'", "'how can I bear it. Ah, I ought to be lying there -- not she. I wish I could take her place!'", "'I can't bear it much longer; I shall have to open my eyes!'", "'I -- I couldn't help it, really, Winnie,", "'I'll save up and buy you another twice as pretty. And you know you said Ethelinda didn't seem to care about you!'", "'Stop, Archie, what do you mean? Did you think you'd cut her head off really!'", "'I cut something's head off; I saw it go!'", "'Then you did mean it! And, oh, it's the jester! I wouldn't have minded it so much, if you hadn't meant it for Ethelinda! And, Archie, you cruel, bad boy -- you've cut -- cut all her beautiful hair off, and I sat here and let you! She's not pretty at all now -- it's a shame, it is a shame!'", "'I think she looks better with her hair cut short,", "'lots of girls wear it like that. And, don't you see, Winnie, this has been a plot got up by the jester; Ethelinda was innocent all the time, and he's just nicely caught in his own trap.... That -- that's the surprise!'", "'I don't believe you one bit!", "'You had no business to cut even my jester's head off, but you meant to do much worse! I won't play with you any more, and I shan't forgive you till the very day you go back to school!'", "'I don't want to listen; leave me alone!'", "'And how are you after your little romance, eh? Master Archie very nearly had your pretty little empty head off -- but of course I couldn't allow that. I hope you enjoyed yourself?'", "'Shall I tell her now, and make her ashamed and sorry -- would she believe me? would she care? Perhaps not, but I must speak out some time -- only I had better wait till the clock has stopped. I can't bear her to talk about that poor jester in this way.'", "\"Should the wind keep up as it is now, by nightfall or by dawn at the latest, we should sight Tahiti. We've water and fresh stores to take on there.", "\"'Tis a fair place, is Tahiti, and one you lads will have an interest and a pleasure in seeing.\"", "\"Nearly to Tahiti, eh, my lad?", "\"Is all this clear?\"", "\"Mr. Finney will be some time on deck. We cannot be overheard in here.\"", "\"how are you to find the channel in the dark?\"", "\"I -- I see uncommonly well by night, Captain sir,", "\"You can understand I do not fancy it. However,", "\"I take orders from Mr. Wicker, the owner of the Mirabelle, and since he says so, this is how it must be.\"", "\"He told me you would have information from him for me, from time to time. We shall say no more, but I trust you understand the responsibility you have? This ship, its cargo, and its men will be in your hands.\"", "\"Yes sir. I think I can do it safely, or I should not try, sir.\"", "\"Aye, aye. No doubt. Just bear it in mind at the time, eh lad?\"", "\"After we see -- whatever we are to see,", "\"I'll be absent for a while. What can be said during that time, sir?", "\"I shall say you have a tropical fever, Christopher,", "\"I am somewhat skilled in medicaments -- I have to be, as captain of a ship, and the crew know it. I shall say that you are in my own cabin so that I can care for you. I shall allow no one to enter it but myself. It will be a most contagious fever for a time,", "\"I shall bring you food with my own hands. Nothing much -- broth and gruel, and I daresay I can eat it myself if I cannot throw it out the porthole!", "\"You have your part to carry out, I have mine.\"", "\"Mr. Wicker said we'd know the reason why we must take shelter tomorrow at sundown today. And now it is sundown!\"", "\"Run down to your cabin and fetch up that good spyglass of yours, my boy. We shall have a good look, for as you know, night falls in a few moments after sundown in these waters.\"", "\u201cWhy, Polly, dear! Have you been sick and never told me?\u201d", "\u201cNo, I'm only tired, had a good deal to do lately, and the dull weather makes me just a trifle blue. I shall soon brighten up when I get to my work again,", "\u201cYou don't look a bit natural. What have you been doing to your precious little self?", "\u201cI'm all right enough, as you'll see when I'm in order. I'm proper glad to find you looking so well and happy. Does all go smoothly, Fan?", "\u201cTell me, truly, have you never repented of your hint to Sydney?\u201d", "\u201cOn your honor, as an honest girl?\u201d", "\u201cOn my honor, as anything you please. Why do you suspect me of it?", "\u201cBecause something is wrong with you. It's no use to deny it, for you 've got the look I used to see in that very glass on my own face when I thought he cared for you. Forgive me, Polly, but I can't help saying it, for it is there, and I want to be as true to you as you were to me if I can.\u201d", "\u201cI tell you I don't love him! If he was the only man in the world, I would n't marry him, because I don't want to.\u201d", "\u201cThen if it's not him, it's some one else. You've got a secret, Polly, and I should think you might tell it, as you know mine,", "\u201cMy precious Polly, do I know him?\u201d", "\u201cAnd is he very wise, good, and splendid, dear?\u201d", "\u201cHe ought to be if you love him. I hope he is n't bad?", "\u201cOh, please just tell me one thing more. Don't he love back again?\u201d", "\u201cNo. Now don't say another word, I can't bear it!", "\u201cI've got some notes and things I want to ask your opinion about, if they really mean anything, you know,", "\u201cThere's a photograph of Tom, came in his last letter. Good, is n't it? He looks older, but that's the beard and the rough coat, I suppose. Dear old fellow, he is doing so well I really begin to feel quite proud of him.\u201d", "\u201cOh, Polly, I am so glad! I never thought of it you are so good, and he 's such a wild boy, I can't believe it but it is so dear of you to care for him.\u201d", "\u201cCould n't help it tried not to but it was so hard you know, Fan, you know,", "\u201cReally my sister! You dear thing, how heavenly that will be,", "\u201cWhat do you mean? Is she the Western girl? She shan't have Tom; I'll kill her first!\u201d", "\u201cToo late, let me tell you is that door shut, and Maud safe?\u201d", "\u201cHas n't he mentioned Maria in his letters?\u201d", "\u201cOnce or twice, but sort of jokingly, and I thought it was only some little flirtation. He can't have time for much of that fun, he's so busy.\u201d", "\u201cWell, he ought; and if I could get hold of him, he should!\u201d", "\u201cIf you ever breathe a word, drop a hint, look a look that will tell him or any one else about me, I'll yes, as sure as my name is Mary Milton I'll proclaim from the housetops that you like Ar", "\u201cI won't! I promise solemnly I'll never say a word to a mortal creature. Don't be so fierce, Polly; you quite frighten me.\u201d", "\u201cIt's bad enough to love some one who don't love you, but to have them told of it is perfectly awful. It makes me wild just to think of it. Oh, Fan, I'm getting so ill-tempered and envious and wicked, I don't know what will happen to me.\u201d", "\u201cI don't know when I began to love Tom, but I found out that I did last winter, and was as much surprised as you are,", "\u201cI don't mean that he's weak or bad. If he was, I should hate him; but he does need some one to love him very much, and make him happy, as a good woman best knows how,", "\u201cI hope Maria Bailey is all he thinks her,", "\u201cfor I could n't bear to have him disappointed again.\u201d", "\u201cI dare say he don't care a fig for her, and you are only borrowing trouble. What do you say Ned answered when you asked about this inconvenient girl?", "\u201cIt does look bad. Suppose I say a word to Tom, just inquire after his heart in a general way, you know, and give him a chance to tell me, if there is anything to tell.", "\u201cI'm willing, but you must let me see the letter. I can't trust you not to hint or say too much.\u201d", "\u201cYou shall. I'll keep my promise in spite of everything, but it will be hard to see things going wrong when a word would set it right.\u201d", "\u201cIf it is true about Maria, what shall we do?", "\u201cBear it; People always do bear things, somehow,", "\u201cFan don't need me, and Sydney don't care whether I come or not, so I 'll keep out of the way,", "\u201cWe'll have it out of him when he comes home in the spring,", "\u201cmen were the most uncommunicative and provoking animals under the sun.", "\u201cPrepare yourself somebody is engaged!", "\u201cNo, don't look like that, my poor dear; it is n't Tom, it's I!\u201d", "\u201cOh, Polly, though I've waited and hoped so long I could n't believe it when it came, and don't deserve it; but I will! for the knowledge that he loves me seems to make everything possible,", "\u201cI think you deserve all that's come to you, for you have truly tried to be worthy of it, and whether it ever came or not that would have been a thing to be proud of.\u201d", "\u201cWe don't think so; and I know you'll be all he hopes to find you, for he's just the husband you ought to have.\u201d", "\u201cThank you all the more, then, for not keeping him yourself,", "\u201cThat was only a slight aberration of his; he knew better all the time. It was your white cloak and my idiotic behavior the night we went to the opera that put the idea into his head,", "\u201cI'm not going to tell Tom a word about it, but keep it for a surprise till he comes. He will be here next week, and then we'll have a grand clearing up of mysteries,", "\"A poor enough one truly, off the Strand.\"", "\"Indeed? -- that reminds me: we always pay salaries in advance in this office. Here is a sovereign to account of your first quarter. We can settle the amount afterwards.\"", "\"Now then, you had better -- ha -- excuse me -- put up the shutters.\"", "\"I am willing to aid you in your difficulties, but I am not willing to become a mere shop-boy -- at least not while there is man's work to be had.\"", "\"I would do it myself, but have not time; I'm late as it is. Ah! I have it -- Mrs Murridge!\"", "\"Ah, then, you may laugh till you grow fat,", "\"but it's more than that you must do if I'm to join you in the laugh.\"", "\"Well, sit down on the counter, and I'll explain,", "\"Bravo, Phil! splendidly aimed, but rather low,", "\"Very odd and absolutely unaccountable,", "\"Rats might destroy letters, but they could not eat them -- at least, not during the few hours of the night that they lie on the floor. No; the thing is a mystery. I cannot help thinking that the Post-Office is to blame. I shall make inquiries. I am determined to get to the bottom of it.\"", "\"to see the -- the -- Secretary, the -- the -- Postmaster-General, the chief of the Post-Office, whoever he may be. There is my card.\"", "\"Certainly, sir, will you step this way?\"", "\"I come to make a complaint. Many of the letters addressed to our firm are missing -- have been missing for some time past, -- and from the inquiries I have made it seems evident to me that they must have been lost in passing through the Post-Office.\"", "\"You may rely on our doing our utmost to clear up the matter. Will you be kind enough to give me the full particulars?\"", "\"and I thank you heartily for the trouble you have taken with my case. Good-morning. I shall see to this at once.\"", "\u201cfear it not; how were we nursed ourselves? Are you sure you was nursed up by your own mother? and yet you look fat and fair, child,", "\u201cI have no murderers about me; I employ the best and the honestest nurses that can be had, and have as few children miscarry under their hands as there would if they were all nursed by mothers; we want neither care nor skill.\u201d", "\u201cthis creature cannot be a witch, or have any conversation with a spirit, that can inform her what was done with me before I was able to know it myself", "\u201cfor aught I know, but my doubts are very strongly grounded indeed.", "\u201cyou give a piece of money to these people to take the child off the parent\u2019s hands, and to take care of it as long as it lives. Now we know, mother,", "\u201cthat those are poor people, and their gain consists in being quit of the charge as soon as they can; how can I doubt but that, as it is best for them to have the child die, they are not over solicitous about life?\u201d", "\u201cThis is all vapours and fancy,", "\u201cI tell you their credit depends upon the child\u2019s life, and they are as careful as any mother of you all.\u201d", "\u201cYou would see the child, and you would not see the child; you would be concealed and discovered both together. These are things impossible, my dear; so you must e\u2019en do as other conscientious mothers have done before you, and be contented with things as they must be, though they are not as you wish them to be.\u201d", "\u201cI have found out a way how you shall be at a certainty that your child shall be used well, and yet the people that take care of it shall never know you, or who the mother of the child is.\u201d", "\u201cif you can do so, you will engage me to you for ever.", "\u201care you willing to be a some small annual expense, more than what we usually give to the people we contract with?", "\u201cwith all my heart, provided I may be concealed.", "\u201cyou shall be secure, for the nurse shall never so much as dare to inquire about you, and you shall once or twice a year go with me and see your child, and see how \u2019tis used, and be satisfied that it is in good hands, nobody knowing who you are.\u201d", "\u201cdo you think, mother, that when I come to see my child, I shall be able to conceal my being the mother of it? Do you think that possible?\u201d", "\u201cif you discover it, the nurse shall be never the wiser; for she shall be forbid to ask any questions about you, or to take any notice. If she offers it, she shall lose the money which you are suppose to give her, and the child shall be taken from her too.\u201d", "\u201cSir, if you shall have occasion for a minister, I have a friend a little way off that will serve you, and be as private as you please.", "\u201cVery well, I believe I shall.\u201d", "\u201cWhat, in an inn, and upon the road! Bless us all,", "\u201cOh, I can talk so very well,", "\u201cI came a-purpose to talk so, and I\u2019ll show you that I did", "\u201cDon\u2019t be frighted; you shall see what it is all", "\u201cthat\u2019s the question I wanted to have you ask me", "\u201cI guess what it is; I think you are mad.", "\u201cI should have been mad if I had done less,", "\u201care you distracted? Why, you were fully satisfied that I would comply and yield at first word, or resolved to take no denial.", "\u201chow can you think so? I must not be denied, I can\u2019t be denied", "\u201cWhy, you resolve not to be denied, indeed, I can\u2019t be denied.", "\u201cmy dear, he seemed to scruple whether it was not some young girl stolen from her parents, and I assured him we were both of age to command our own consent; and that made him ask to see you.", "\u201cevery ill turn has some good in it. The disappointment, sir,", "\u201cwas yours, and the good turn is mine, for if you had met at Stony-Stratford I had not had the honour to marry you. Landlord, have you a Common Prayer Book?\u201d", "\u201cwhat do you mean? What, to marry in an inn, and at night too?", "\u201cHe is absent, I think. Did not he say that he was setting out on a journey?", "\u201cHe had a habit of disappearing in this fashion. But not for so long.", "\u201cBut you ate nothing yesterday, poor, dear man!\u201d", "\u201cThat proves that you have drunk; it does not prove that you have eaten.\u201d", "\u201cwhat if I felt hungry only for water?\u201d", "\u201cThat is called thirst, and, when one does not eat at the same time, it is called fever.\u201d", "\u201cOr at Trinity day. Why not to-day? Is it the thing to say: \u2018I will eat to-morrow\u2019? The idea of leaving my platter without even touching it! My lady-finger potatoes were so good!\u201d", "\u201cThe good man upstairs yonder does not get up, he no longer eats, he will not last long. That man has his sorrows, that he has. You won\u2019t get it out of my head that his daughter has made a bad marriage.\u201d", "\u201cIf he\u2019s rich, let him have a doctor. If he is not rich, let him go without. If he has no doctor he will die.\u201d", "\u201cIt\u2019s a shame. Such a neat old man! He\u2019s as white as a chicken.\u201d", "\u201cYou have only to enter. As the good man no longer stirs from his bed, the door is always unlocked.\u201d", "\u201cYour sick man is very ill indeed.\u201d", "\u201cEverything and nothing. He is a man who, to all appearances, has lost some person who is dear to him. People die of that.\u201d", "\u201cBut some one else besides must come.\u201d", "'re fairly out at sea? You must husband your resources for that. And why trouble to roll? The ship will do all that for you, if you will only have patience.'", "'miserable wretch that I am, I pledged my honour to present myself as a suitor, and now -- now -- here I am, actually embarked upon the desperate errand!'", "'I think in your place, with an excellent chance -- for I presume the lady's heart is also disengaged -- with an excellent chance of winning a baronet's daughter with a considerable fortune and a pleasing appearance, I should bear up better.'", "'Then why in the name of common sense, don't you retract?", "'Write and say that you much regret that a previous engagement, which you had unfortunately overlooked, deprives you of the pleasure of accepting.'", "'it would be agony to me to feel that I had incurred Chlorine's contempt, even though I only know her through a photograph at present. If I were to back out of it now, she would have reason to despise me, would she not?'", "'You see my dilemma -- I cannot retract; on the other hand, I dare not go on. The only thing, as I have thought lately, which could save me and my honour at the same time would be my death on the voyage out, for then my cowardice would remain undiscovered.'", "'you can die on the voyage out if you want to -- there need be no difficulty about that. All you have to do is just to slip over the side some dark night when no one is looking. I tell you what,", "'if you don't find your nerves equal to it when it comes to the point, I don't mind giving you a leg over myself.'", "'I never intended to go as far as that,", "'I don't care about actually dying, if she could only be made to believe I had died that would be quite enough for me. I could live on here, happy in the thought that I was saved from her scorn. But how can she be made to believe it? -- that's the point.'", "'You can hardly write yourself and inform her that you died on the voyage. You might do this, though: sail to England as you propose, and go to see her under another name, and break the sad intelligence to her.'", "'Why, to be sure, I might do that!", "'I should certainly not be recognised -- she can have no photograph of me, for I have never been photographed. And yet -- no,", "'it is useless. I can't do it; I dare not trust myself under that roof! I must find some other way. You have given me an idea. Listen,", "'I should very much prefer to do you a service that you could repay,", "'I could give you enough papers and things to convince her that you come from me. Say you will do me this kindness!'", "'The only thing now is -- how would you prefer to pass away? Shall I make you fall over and be devoured by a shark? That would be a picturesque end -- and I could do myself justice over the shark? I should make the young lady weep considerably.'", "'I might work it up into something effective, certainly,", "'and, by the way, if you are going to expire in my state-room, I ought to know a little more about you than I do. There is time still before the tender goes; you might do worse than spend it in coaching me in your life's history.'", "'Now I can banish every recollection of this miserable episode. I need no longer preserve my poor aunt's directions; let them go, then.'", "\"Remain Fitzooth, and fight your own way in the world, boy.", "\"When I am gone you can do what you will with the place, boy,", "\"Let Gamewell land be ruled, for ever, by Gamewell's proper lord. I pray you to let me take counsel with my mother ere I answer you.\"", "\"It is what I would suggest myself. Go to her.\"", "\"Are you sure, Warrenton, that you will perform this business right carefully?", "\"I am part of the house of Montfichet, lording,", "\"and it is not reasonable to think that I will turn against myself, as it were. Be sure that the horse and his trappings will be safely carried to my second master, Geoffrey, at the hour given. Do you keep the Squire employed in talk; and find excuse to lie in the little room next to his own that you may hear him if he moves.\"", "\"'Tis late; and I go myself within a short space. Dismiss your squire, Robin, and bid me good e'en. An early sleeper maketh a sound man.\"", "\"Did I see you with Warrenton, Robin Fitzooth?", "\"I would fain have some talk with him on the matter of archery. I am told that this old man can draw as pretty a bow as any in Nottingham.\"", "\"As any in England, I would say,", "\"That is, in his day. Now that age is upon Warrenton and his master, cunning in such matters is to seek. Yet he will teach you a few tricks when morning is come. Now kiss me, boy, and keep clear head and ready hand for the joustings and games to-morrow. Good night; God keep thee, Robin.\"", "\"Do you hold yourself ready, Will, so soon as the house is asleep. We will go out together to the bower; there is a way down to the court from my window. Rest and be still until I warn you.\"", "\"Save me, masters, but you startled me rarely!", "\"I have but this minute left Master Montfichet, having carried his horse to him in safety. He rides into Nottingham to-morrow, unattended. I would that I might be squire to him!\"", "\"Did you indeed bring horse and arms down this ladder, Warrenton?", "\"This way is one of the many secret ones about Gamewell, master: but do you keep the knowledge of it to yourselves, I beg, unless you would wish hurt to our future lord of Gamewell.\"", "\"Give me your hand, Warrenton, and help me to climb these steps,", "\"'Tis dark, for all your lamp; and I fain would feel friendly assistance, such as you can give.\"", "\"Our master is to be recognized by us as the Scarlet Knight at Nottingham Fair should one ask of us, lording,", "\"He implores us to be discreet as the grave in this matter, for in sooth his life is in the hollow of our hands.\"", "\u201ccome back, come back. I\u2019ll give you all I have; I\u2019ll beg, I\u2019ll starve with you.", "\u201cdo not think I am in jest, for if ever I heard your voice in my life, I heard you call me aloud, and sometimes I thought I saw you running after me.", "\u201cand said, O Jemmy! O Jemmy! come back, come back.\u201d", "\u201cdo not laugh, for, depend upon it, I heard your voice as plain as you hear mine now; if you please, I\u2019ll go before a magistrate and make oath of it.", "\u201cWell, you shall go away from me no more; I\u2019ll go all over the world with you rather.", "\u201cit cost me some tears all alone by myself, to think how much happier they were than their master, for they could go to the next gentleman\u2019s house to see for a service, whereas,", "\u201cI knew not wither to go, or what to do with myself.\u201d", "\u201cI believe this lady\u2019s trouble is of a kind that is pretty much in your way, and therefore if you can do anything for her, pray do, for she is a very civil gentlewoman", "\u201cthat is with child has a father for it,", "\u201cto have a husband that cannot appear, is to have no husband in the sense of the case; and, therefore, whether you are a wife or a mistress is all one to me.\u201d", "\u201cI trouble you with all this, madam,", "\u201cyou have no security to bring to prevent the parish impertinences usual in such cases, and perhaps,", "\u201cdo not know very well how to dispose of the child when it comes.", "\u201cis not so much my concern as the first.", "\u201cdare you put yourself into my hands? I live in such a place; though I do not inquire after you, you may inquire after me. My name is B \u2014 \u2014 ; I live in such a street", "\u201cand if that be answered you shall be entirely easy for all the rest.\u201d", "\u201cMadam, I believe I understand you. I thank God, though I want friends in this part of the world, I do not want money, so far as may be necessary, though I do not abound in that neither", "\u201cthat is the thing indeed, without which nothing can be done in these cases; and yet,", "\u201cyou shall see that I will not impose upon you, or offer anything that is unkind to you, and if you desire it, you shall know everything beforehand, that you may suit yourself to the occasion, and be neither costly or sparing as you see fit.\u201d", "\u201cyou will make me the less welcome upon that account.", "\u201cfor where I have one of the third sort I have two of the second, and four to one of the first, and I get as much by them in proportion as by any; but if you doubt my care of you, I will allow any friend you have to overlook and see if you are well waited on or no.\u201d", "\u201cI would have you observe that here is three months\u2019 keeping; you are but ten shillings a week; I undertake to say you will not complain of my table. I suppose,", "\u201cyou do not live cheaper where you are now?", "\u201cnot so cheap, for I give six shillings per week for my chamber, and find my own diet as well as I can, which costs me a great deal more.\u201d", "\u201cif the child should not live, or should be dead-born, as you know sometimes happens, then there is the minister\u2019s article saved; and if you have no friends to come to you, you may save the expense of a supper; so that take those articles out, madam,", "\u201cyour lying in will not cost you above \u00a35, 3s. in all more than your ordinary charge of living.\u201d", "\u201cMadam, I do not question you do your part honestly, but what those people do afterwards is the main question", "\"It is true, you have a tiny mark at the side of your jaw -- if parakeets have jaws, my friend. But there is no such thing as magic. Not the kind of magic whereby a human can be something else!\"", "\"What a joke if it were possible! Now what could I be, eh?\"", "\"Now, all this is a most engaging train of thought,", "\"If I could change myself, what should I be?\"", "\"Ah -- there you are at last, Claggett,", "\"Battle all over? It still sounds rather ferocious, to me. But of course I am no expert. Heaven forbid!", "\"I will have that bird, Osterbridge,", "\"Oh no, you will not, Claggett,", "\"This is the one thing that is keeping me from unutterable boredom, while you go into your interminable fight.", "\"I am not a trader, Osterbridge. Nor shall I bandy words with you on this subject. Give me that bird, or I shall take it from you!\"", "\"I am sorry to say such a thing to you, but your fever during the weeks just past has undoubtedly altered your brain. You are a madman, Claggett.", "\"Kindly leave the room, Claggett,", "\"until you are more yourself. Your conduct and tone are unbecoming to a gentleman,", "'We thank you for this proof of your chivalry and devotion. It cannot be but that such courage and such self-sacrifice will meet with their reward!'", "'You have made an old man very happy and hopeful,", "'I ought, even now to deter you, but I am too selfish for that. And you are young and brave and ardent; why need we despair? I suppose,", "'you would prefer as little delay as possible?'", "'until the final arrangements are made; it will only distress her unnecessarily.'", "'all is arranged. The event upon which our dearest hopes depend is fixed for to-morrow -- in the Grey Chamber of course, and at midnight.'", "'To-morrow night is Christmas Eve, as you are doubtless aware,", "'At twelve, then, you will present yourself at yonder door -- the door of the Grey Chamber -- where you must fulfil the engagement you have made.'", "'Such extreme sensitiveness, my love,", "'may be highly creditable to your sense of maidenly propriety, but allow me to say that I can scarcely regard it as a compliment.'", "'you must not think I doubt you; and yet -- and yet -- the ordeal will be a severe one for you.'", "'and, after all, Chlorine, the ceremony is not invariably fatal; I have heard of the victim surviving it -- occasionally.'", "'I will imitate you, Augustus; I too will hope.'", "'Yes, I am weak, foolish, I know,", "'but oh, I shudder so when I think of you, away in that gloomy Grey Chamber, going through it all alone!'", "'May I ask where you intend to be at the time?", "'but dear papa considered that such anxiety as ours would be scarcely endurable did we not seek some distraction from it; and so, as a special favour, he has procured evening orders for Sir John Soane's Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields, where we shall drive immediately after dinner.'", "'If you are forgetting your anxiety in Sir John Soane's Museum, while I cool my heels in the Grey Chamber,", "'is it probable that any clergyman will be induced to perform the marriage ceremony? Did you really think two people can be united separately?'", "'you cannot really believe that we are to be married in -- in the Grey Chamber?'", "'Then will you tell me where we are to be married?", "'I think I have the right to know -- it can hardly be at the Museum!'", "'that this is no feigned ignorance. Augustus, your aunt sent you a message -- tell me, have you read it?'", "'You must think no more of my silly joke; there is something I have to arrange in the Grey Chamber before I can call you mine. But, tell me, why does it make you so uneasy?", "'I cannot help it -- no, I cannot!", "'the test is so searching -- are you sure that you are prepared at all points? I overheard my father say that no precaution could safely be neglected. I have such a terrible foreboding that, after all, this may come between us.'", "'Why will you persist in treating me like a child, Augustus?", "'They have tried to hide it all from me, but do you suppose I do not know that in the Grey Chamber you will have to encounter one far more formidable, far more difficult to satisfy, than poor dear papa?'", "'I see you know more than I -- more than I thought you did,", "'Let us understand one another, Chlorine -- tell me exactly how much you know.'", "'it is your turn to confide in me.'", "'Not even for your sweet sake, my dearest,", "'can I break the seal that is set upon my tongue. You must not press me. Come, let us talk of other things.'", "'for her separate use and free from the control of her husband,", "'little speck within the fruit", "\u201cIt all lies in half a dozen words,", "\u201cwords that really settle the matter. \u2018Think, you know, what I might do!\u2019 He threw that off to show me how good he is. He knows down to the ground what he \u2018might\u2019 do. That\u2019s what he gave them a taste of at school.\u201d", "\u201cthey\u2019re talking of them \u2014 they\u2019re talking horrors! I go on, I know, as if I were crazy; and it\u2019s a wonder I\u2019m not. What I\u2019ve seen would have made you so; but it has only made me more lucid, made me get hold of still other things.\u201d", "\u201cOf what other things have you got hold?\u201d", "\u201cit\u2019s a policy and a fraud!\u201d", "\u201cOn the part of little darlings \u2014 ?\u201d", "\u201cAs yet mere lovely babies? Yes, mad as that seems!", "\u201cThey haven\u2019t been good \u2014 they\u2019ve only been absent. It has been easy to live with them, because they\u2019re simply leading a life of their own. They\u2019re not mine \u2014 they\u2019re not ours. They\u2019re his and they\u2019re hers!\u201d", "\u201cQuint\u2019s and that woman\u2019s. They want to get to them.\u201d", "\u201cFor the love of all the evil that, in those dreadful days, the pair put into them. And to ply them with that evil still, to keep up the work of demons, is what brings the others back.\u201d", "\u201cThey were rascals! But what can they now do?", "\u201cUnless, of course, we can prevent!\u201d", "\u201cTheir uncle must do the preventing. He must take them away.\u201d", "\u201cBy writing to him that his house is poisoned and his little nephew and niece mad?\u201d", "\u201cAnd if I am myself, you mean? That\u2019s charming news to be sent him by a governess whose prime undertaking was to give him no worry.\u201d", "\u201cWhy those fiends took him in so long? No doubt, though his indifference must have been awful. As I\u2019m not a fiend, at any rate, I shouldn\u2019t take him in.\u201d", "\u201cMake him at any rate come to you.\u201d", "\u201cHe ought to be here \u2014 he ought to help.\u201d", "\u201cYou see me asking him for a visit?", "\"It remaineth for me only that I yield me to negro slaves, after having refused Kings and Braves!", "\"Woe to thee, O Ghazban! How dareth the like of thee to address me such demand, O base-born and obscene-bred? Dost thou deem all folk are alike?", "\"Alas, my mistress! Alas, the pity of it! Thou art dead by the hand of a worthless black slave, after all thy knightly prowess!", "\"Why do I see thee grown weak in body and yellow of face?", "\"O my son, I grant thee this and I have not in my reign a greater than the Castle of Damascus, and the government of it is thine from this time.", "\"O our lord, thy children have now learnt knowledge and they are completely versed in the rules of manners and the etiquette of ceremony.", "\"I come to ask thy leave to make the pilgrimage.", "\"Wait till next year and I will go and thou too.", "\"take me with thee and deprive me not of visitation to the tomb of the Prophet, whom Allah bless and keep!", "\"As soon as it is dark night, do thou come forth from this place, without telling any.", "\"O my sister, it is in my mind to visit the Holy House,[FN#232] Jerusalem, and Abraham the Friend of Allah[FN#233] (on whom be peace!).", "\"There is no Majesty and there is no Might save in Allah, the Glorious, the Great! This is the decree of Allah!", "\"Verily is Allah the Orderer of the past and the future!", "\"O my sister, I feel recovery drawing near and my heart longeth for a little roast meat.", "\"I have no face to beg; but To-morrow I will enter some rich man's house and serve him and earn somewhat for our living.", "\"Of a truth 'tis hard for me to leave thee and thou in this state, but I must despite myself!", "\"Allah forbid! Thou wilt be put to shame; but there is no Majesty and there is no Might save in Allah!", "\"I wish thee to bear me to the bazar.", "\"Carry this sick man to Damascus and leave him in the hospital; haply he may be cured and recover health.", "\"How shall I take this sick man to Damascus, and he nigh upon death?", "\"Why did they not throw their dead body any where but here?", "\"Some one of you who hath eaten a bit of Hashish and hath thrown himself down in whatso place it be!", "\"There is no Majesty and there is no Might save in Allah! verily, I have sinned against this youth, for indeed the Prophet (whom Allah bless and keep!) enjoineth honour to the stranger, more especially when the stranger is sick.", "\"Praise be to Allah for the welfare of this youth! O Allah, I beseech Thee by Thy knowledge of hidden things, that Thou make the salvation of this youth to be at my hands!", "\u201cVery. I\u2019ve been up and about three hours, working at my part. We open in February, you know.\u201d", "\u201cOh, how jolly! There, sit down at the desk. And while you are telephoning I\u2019ll change my dress. I shan\u2019t be long. All the morning papers are on the table.\u201d", "\u201cWhy don\u2019t you wear some of those pink roses?", "\u201cBut they came only this morning, and they have not even begun to open. I was saving them. I am so unconsciously thrifty!", "\u201cYou\u2019ve been sending me far too many flowers, Bartley. New ones every day. That\u2019s too often; though I do love to open the boxes, and I take good care of them.\u201d", "\u201cWhy won\u2019t you let me send you any of those jade or ivory things you are so fond of? Or pictures? I know a good deal about pictures.\u201d", "\u201cNo, there are some things you can\u2019t do. There\u2019s the carriage. Will you button my gloves for me?\u201d", "\u201cThat\u2019s because I\u2019ve been studying. It always stirs me up a little.\u201d", "\u201cWhen did you learn to take hold of your parts like that?\u201d", "\u201cWhen I had nothing else to think of. Come, the carriage is waiting. What a shocking while you take.\u201d", "\u201cI\u2019m in no hurry. We\u2019ve plenty of time.\u201d", "\u201cI\u2019ll cut off a day in Liverpool. I haven\u2019t felt so jolly this long while.\u201d", "\u201cI think people were meant to be happy, a little,", "\u201cEverything is awfully grim and cheerless, our weather and our houses and our ways of amusing ourselves. But we can be happier than anybody. We can go mad with joy, as the people do out in the fields on a fine Whitsunday. We make the most of our moment.\u201d", "\u201cNo, I\u2019m not. Not about some things, at any rate. It doesn\u2019t take pluck to fight for one\u2019s moment, but it takes pluck to go without \u2014 a lot. More than I have. I can\u2019t help it,", "\u201cLondon always makes me want to live more than any other city in the world. You remember our priestess mummy over in the mummy-room, and how we used to long to go and bring her out on nights like this? Three thousand years! Ugh!\u201d", "\u201cAll the same, I believe she used to feel it when we stood there and watched her and wished her well. I believe she used to remember,", "\u201cI hope so. Now let\u2019s go to some awfully jolly place for dinner before we go home. I could eat all the dinners there are in London to-night. Where shall I tell the driver? The Piccadilly Restaurant? The music\u2019s good there.\u201d", "\u201cThere are too many people there whom one knows. Why not that little French place in Soho, where we went so often when you were here in the summer? I love it, and I\u2019ve never been there with any one but you. Sometimes I go by myself, when I am particularly lonely.\u201d", "\u201cVery well, the sole\u2019s good there. How many street pianos there are about to-night! The fine weather must have thawed them out. We\u2019ve had five miles of \u2018Il Trovatore\u2019 now. They always make me feel jaunty. Are you comfy, and not too tired?\u201d", "'Who will reign over us when you are dead? For dead you surely will be,", "'Stay with us, and we will make you happy.", "'I am too late to help you, my poor friends,", "'but at least I can avenge you! Those that have set the snare will certainly return to see to its working. I will hide myself somewhere, and discover who they are!'", "'There was a horse for every dead man,", "'Who are you that lure men into your power and then poison them? But you shall do so no longer. Return to your house, wherever it may be, and we will fight before it!'", "'I accept your challenge. Mount and follow me. I am Zoulvisia.", "'I am going to seek Zoulvisia,", "'she has slain my brothers and many of my subjects, and I mean to avenge them.'", "'What a pity we did not know! Twice this day has she passed our door, and we might have kept her prisoner.'", "'Forget Zoulvisia, and stay with us,", "'you shall be our big brother, and we will be your little brothers.", "'Though I may not give up my vengeance I accept your friendship, and therefore leave you these three tokens. If blood should appear on the face of either know that my life is in danger, and, in memory of our sworn brotherhood, come to my aid.'", "'Perhaps he may be able to give me some counsel,", "'Are you a bird or a snake that you can enter here?", "'Zoulvisia? The world's curse?", "'Out of all the thousands she has slain I am the only one who has escaped, though why she spared me only to condemn me to this living death I cannot guess.'", "'and are worthy to be my husband, for you are the first man who has not died at the sound of my voice!", "'Ask of me what you will, and I will grant it to you,", "'I have finished with hunting, and with riding about my lands,", "'The care of providing for us all belongs henceforth to you.", "'This is your master, O my steed of flame,", "'and you will serve him as you have served me.", "'Bring her hither, old crone, and you shall have gold enough to stand up in,", "'I am a poor pilgrim, my son,", "'for you have walked far, and it is still a long way to the palace.", "'but as your kind heart pities my sorrows, ride slowly, and lame as I am, I think I can manage to keep up.'", "'Why, one would think she was a witch to hear you talk! And even if she were, what harm could she do to us?", "'it may be that she is a witch, as they say; but I am sure she never would work a spell to harm a fly! And as for her tales, they would pass many a dull hour for you, when my lord was absent!'", "'It was so clever of him to guess your secret so as to win your heart,", "'And of course he told you his, in return?'", "'No, I don't think he has got any,", "'That is nonsense! Every man has a secret, which he always tells to the woman he loves. And if he has not told it to you, it is that he does not love you!'", "'It is my sabre that gives me strength, and day and night it lies by my side. But now that I have told you, swear upon this ring, that I will give you in exchange for yours, that you will reveal it to nobody.", "'I give you your choice -- will you come with me, or shall the serpents slay you also?", "'Something terrible must have happened to our little brother,", "'we must hasten to his rescue ere it be too late.", "'How stupid! Of course there are fish to catch,", "'but now that you are saved you will soon find out.", "'Oh, my poor horse! How much cleverer were you than I! If I had acted like you I should never have lost Zoulvisia; but we will seek her together, you and I.'", "'You are in luck to have passed this way just now,", "'Ay, so she says, though the old witch -- -- But what ails you?", "'Oh, you shall be paid, never fear -- as much as your heart can desire! Here is a handful of gold: you shall have as much again if you will do my bidding.", "'Then go and buy a dress such as ladies wear at court, and manage to get admitted into the palace, and into the presence of Zoulvisia. When there, show her this ring, and after that she will tell you what to do.'", "\"Nothing left nowhere? Sure none of the lads chucked anything aside the path when they ran up?\"", "\"Yes, father. I looked well both sides.\"", "\"Humph! Worse lads than you if you knew where to find 'em.\"", "\"No. Stop here till Sir Risdon comes down, and tell him I'm very sorry; that we should have cleared out last night, only a born fool saw Jerry Nandy's lobster-boat coming into the cove, and came running to say it was a party from the cutter.\"", "\"Tell him not to be uneasy; 'tis all right, and I'll have everything clear away to-night.\"", "\"No; it couldn't be a dream. He must be awake. But how queer for Mr Gurr to be talking like that to Andrew Teal, the boy who helped the cook! And why did Andy call Mr Gurr father?\"", "\"If Mr Brough goes on deck and catches that boy whistling, there'll be someone to pay and no pitch hot,", "\"But what did Mr Gurr mean about going home to breakfast? And I'm hungry too. Time I was up, I suppose.\"", "\"who are you? I was wondering why that window was open.\"", "\"Here, quick! Go round and open the door. I was shut in last night by mistake.\"", "\"I saw you last night, and wondered whose boy you was. It was you father kicked for shirking, and -- My! -- well: I hardly knowed you.\"", "\"Nonsense! Come round and open the door. I've been shut in all night.\"", "\"Think I don't know you, Mr Orficer? Where's your fine clothes and your sword? Here, what made you dress up like that?\"", "\"I know you. Been playing the spy, that's what you've been doing. Who locked you in?\"", "\"But I'll -- yes, I'll give you a guinea, if you will let me out.\"", "\"Well, then, two. Be quick, there's a good fellow. I want to get away at once.\"", "\"It would be a pity. I say, do you know what you look like?\"", "\"Not you. Only a sham. Why, your clothes don't fit you, and your cap's put on all skew-rew. Don't look a bit like a fisher-lad, and never will.\"", "\"Never mind about that; let me out of this place.\"", "\"Not you. Looks comf'table enough as you are. I say, do you know what you are like now?\"", "\"Not you. Look like a wild beast in a cage. Like a monkey.\"", "\"It was your turn yesterday, it's mine to-day. What a game! You laughed and fleered at me when I was on the cutter's deck. I can laugh and fleer at you now. I say, you do look a rum 'un. Just like a big monkey in a show.\"", "\"Gentlemen don't fight with low, common fellows like you, but if you do not come round and let me out, next time we meet I'll have a bit of rope's-end ready for you.\"", "\"Why, I could tie you up in a knot, and heave you off the cliff any day. What a game! Bit of a middy, fed on salt tack and weevilly biscuit, talk of giving me rope's-end! Dressed up with a dirty face and a bit o' canvas! Go back aboard, and put on your uniform. Ha! Ha! Ha!\"", "\"No. I'm going to keep you here till the gentlefolks get up, and then I'll bring 'em round to see the monkey in his cage, just like they do in the shows, when you pay a penny. See you for nothing, middy. I say, where's your sword? Why don't you draw it, and come out and fight? I'll fight you with a stick.\"", "\"Keep still, or you'll get your weasand slit. D'ye hear?\"", "\"Banks will be reopened as rapidly as the Legal Government can extend its control, and all deposits previously made will be honored in full.\"", "\"Let them bribe us if they like. We're going to win this war.\"", "\"Food, and some other stuff. There are some refuse bags, too. Yell when you want them removed.\"", "\"There are heat tablets, and a skin tub.", "\"I suppose I should thank you, but I don't like to be told I stink so much you can't stand me in the next room!\"", "\"Hell, I've gotten so I can stand your grandfather,", "\"This will identify the bearer, BRUCE IRVING GORDON, as a PRIME agent of the Office of Solar Security, empowered to make and execute any and all directives under the powers of this office.", "\"Trench. And I don't like the stench of that kind of cop in my place. Get him away, cobber, get him away!\"", "\"Good. At least some men are loyal. Had breakfast, Gordon?\"", "\"I'll have to trust you, Gordon. I've never been sure. But either you're loyal now or I can't depend on anyone being loyal.\"", "\"So we're going to need men with guts. Gordon, you had training under Murdoch -- who knew his business. And you aren't a coward, as most of these fat fools are. I've got a proposition, straight from Wayne.\"", "\"The Legals got this precinct last night. Captain Hendrix and some of his men wanted to come back with full battle equipment and chase them out. I had a hell of a time getting them to take it easy. I suppose that was some damned fool who tried to go back to his beat.\"", "\"We've got to stop this. Get my car -- up the street -- call Arliss on the phone -- under the dash. Or Wayne. I'll bring Hendrix.\"", "\"Damn it, there's a rebellion going on!", "\"Yes, yes, congratulations. Trench was quite right; you're fully authorized. Did you call me out of bed just to check on that, young man?\"", "\"Glorious! I never look upon that sight,", "\"without wishing that I had lived in the days of the old Vikings.\"", "\"If the Norsemen of old did mischief, as no one can deny, they were undoubtedly grand old scoundrels, and it is certain that they did much good to the world, whether they meant it or not.\"", "\"It's thinking I am, what I wouldn't give if my legs were only as long as yours, George.\"", "\"if they go on at the rate they've been growing of late.\"", "\"and though they can't grow long, they never stop short in the race of life. Why, look at Nelson -- he was short; and Wellington wasn't long, and Bonny himself was small in every way except in his intellect -- who's that coming up the hill?\"", "\"It's Mike Kenny, the postman, I think. I wonder if he has brought a letter from sister May. Mother expects one, I know.\"", "\"but I've left wan at Rocky Cottage,", "\"Sure I don't know for sartin whose hand it is i' the inside, but it's not Miss May's on the cover. Niver a wan in these parts could write like her -- copperplate, no less.\"", "\"we've been looking out for a letter for some days past.\"", "\"It's not exactly a letter, Master Phil,", "\"Ah, then, she'd never put us off with a newspaper,", "\"No, sur; but I've had three glasses already on me walk, an' that's as much as I can rightly carry.\"", "\"Nonsense, Mike. You've a stiff climb before you -- here, take it off.\"", "\"Why didn't you tell me you were a Security Prime! I'm grade three myself.\"", "\"And I suppose that would have meant you'd have shipped in all the food we needed free?", "\"Nope. You're right. The growers would starve next year if they gave it all away now. Well, we'll get in enough food this way to keep you going for a while -- couple of weeks, at least.\"", "\"Go back! If just one of you gets within ten feet of the dome or entrance, we're going to rip the dome! We'll destroy Marsport before we'll give in to a doped-up crowd of riffraff! You've got five minutes to get out of sight, before we come out with rifles and knock you off! Now beat it!\"", "\"They're bluffing. They wouldn't dare destroy the dome! Come on!\"", "\"If the dome gives them a perfect cover, why let me make a jackass of myself, Mother?", "\"Gave them something to live for here, cobber. And when you get over this, you're gonna announce new plans to try again. Yes, you are! But right now, you get yourself drunk!\"", "\"Trench is outside in a heavy-armored car, Bruce. Says he wants to see you. Something to discuss -- a proposition!\"", "\"He wanted to show you a badge -- a Security badge made out for him,", "\"You got your meal ticket, and you've outgrown it in this mess. Now I want that damned book! I've been operating in the dark. It's time I found out how to get in touch with some of those people. Where is it?\"", "\"It isn't. Bruce -- I don't have it. That time I gave you the note, you didn't come when I said, and I thought you wouldn't. Then Jurgens' men broke in, and I thought they'd get it, so -- so I burned it. I lied to you about using it to make you keep me.\"", "\"Okay, Cuddles, you burned it. You were trying to kill me then, so you burned it to keep Jurgens from getting it and putting the finger on me! Where is it, Sheila? On you?\"", "\"No, Bruce. I burned it. I don't know why. I just did! No!\"", "\"Are you satisfied now, you mechanical beast! Do you still think I have it on me?\"", "\"You don't. Don't you know a wife shouldn't keep secrets from her husband? A warm-blooded, affectionate husband, to boot.", "\"Better tell your husband where the book is, Cuddles!\"", "\"Another week of being a failure on this planet of failures, and I might. Go ahead and tell me I'm the same as your first husband. If I can't even keep my word to you, I can at least get out and stay out.", "\"For your amusement, I'm going to miss having you around!\"", "\"you meant it! You don't hate me any more.", "\"I don't think you're a failure. And maybe -- maybe I'm not. Maybe I don't have to be a failure as a woman -- a wife, Bruce. I don't want you to go!\"", "\"The dome! It has to be the answer! Cuddles, you broke the chain enough for me to think again! We've been blind -- the whole damned planet has been blind.\"", "\"I'm all right! I'm just half sane instead of all insane for a change.", "\"We can work enough powder under those webbing supports, and lay the fuse wire beside the plastic ring that keeps it airtight,", "\"But God help us, gov'nor, if any gee spots us.\"", "\"Not yet, Mother. May have to go back tonight.\"", "\"The princess took off in a car three hours ago,", "\"She said it was something that had to be done, gov'nor, so I figured you'd know about it.\"", "\"Who elected you chief martyr around here? You'll be blown up, gov'nor -- and if you ain't, they'll rip you to ribbons for knocking off the dome.\"", "\"We've got to round up whatever group we can and get them back here on the double. They must be counting on our original time, so they're in no hurry to remove the powder and wiring. But we can't count on any more time.\"", "\"In one hour. And you might pass the word along that we're doing it to save the dome. Tell the men we just found out that Trench is losing and intends to blow it up instead of letting the Legals win.\"", "\"Hear that siren, gov'nor? Means they're scared we may do it. Give me that damned switch!\"", "\"Get back! The dome is mined! Any man comes near it, it'll blow! Get back! The dome is mined!\"", "\"Your wife took a helluva chance, Gordon,", "\"And I took quite a chance, too, to set this up so nobody could ever believe you were behind it. Getting that fight started in time, after you first showed up -- oh, sure, we spotted you -- was the toughest job I ever did! But I guess Sheila had the roughest end, not even knowing for sure where I stood.\"", "\"They'll be blaming you for the end of the dome.\"", "\"Let them. I planned on that. Too bad Trench got torn to bits by the mob, isn't it? And it's a good thing I've always kept myself a place under a safe incognito out in the sticks. Got a wife and two kids out there that even Wayne didn't know about.", "\"You're like Security, Gordon. You do all the wrong things, but you get the right results. Goodbye!\"", "\"He likes you, Bruce. But he can't say it. Men!\"", "\"Maybe I didn't do you a favor, gov'nor, pulling you here. I dunno. I got some pics of Trench from a guy I know. That's how I got my beat so fast in the Seventh. But Trench ain't married, and I guess I've used up the touch. Maybe I could try it, though.\"", "\"Izzy said you'd be around. Sorry my man drew that knife on you the last time, Corporal.\"", "\"How come you're walking beat, anyhow? With what you pulled here, you should have bought a captaincy.\"", "\"It ain't honest, gov'nor. If the gees in the wagon clean him, or the desk man gets it, that's their business. But I'm going to run a straight beat, or else!\"", "\"Captain says report in person at once,", "\"Gordon, what does Security want with you?\"", "\"Security? Not a damned thing, if I can help it. They kicked me off Earth on a yellow ticket, if that's what you mean.\"", "\"Okay, probably routine. Only next time, Gordon, put the facts on your record with the Force. If you're a deportee, it should show up. That's all!\"", "\"leave me something! I'll make it right. I'll cut you in. I gotta have some of that for myself!\"", "\"Let him feel it a while. No sense jailing him yet. Bloody fool had no business starting without lining the groove. Anyhow, we'll get a bunch of credits for the stuff when we turn it in.\"", "\"We get a quarter value. Captain probably gets fifty per cent from one of the pushers who's lined with him. Everybody's happy.\"", "\"Wouldn't be honest, gov'nor. Cops are supposed to turn it in.\"", "\"Good work -- you, too, Gordon. Best week in the territory for a couple of months. I guess the citizens like you, the way they treat you.", "\"You have a better chance with more tickets. A much better chance!\"", "\"Thanks, Gordon. That fills my quota. Look, you've been on overtime all week. Why not skip the meeting? Isaacs can brief you, later. Go out and get drunk, or something.\"", "\"I'll go home and rest. Drinking costs too much for what I make. It's a good thing you don't have income tax here.\"", "\"forty per cent. Better make out a form next week, and start paying it regularly. But you can deduct your contributions here.\"", "\u201cShe\u2019s a dear, unworldly little thing,", "\u201cmore like the stage people of my young days \u2014 folk of simple manners. There aren\u2019t many such left. American tours have spoiled them, I\u2019m afraid. They have all grown very smart. Lamb wouldn\u2019t care a great deal about many of them, I fancy.\u201d", "\u201cI\u2019m so pleased that you think me worth that yellow dress, you know,", "\u201cYes, it\u2019s very, very pretty. Every one at Lady Walford\u2019s was looking at it.\u201d", "\u201cI haven\u2019t had a chance yet to tell you what a jolly little place I think this is. Where did you get those etchings? They\u2019re quite unusual, aren\u2019t they?\u201d", "\u201cLady Westmere sent them to me from Rome last Christmas. She is very much interested in the American artist who did them. They are all sketches made about the Villa d\u2019Este, you see. He painted that group of cypresses for the Salon, and it was bought for the Luxembourg.\u201d", "\u201cIt\u2019s the air of the whole place here that I like. You haven\u2019t got anything that doesn\u2019t belong. Seems to me it looks particularly well to-night. And you have so many flowers. I like these little yellow irises.\u201d", "\u201cRooms always look better by lamplight \u2014 in London, at least. Though Marie is clean \u2014 really clean, as the French are. Why do you look at the flowers so critically? Marie got them all fresh in Covent Garden market yesterday morning.\u201d", "\u201cI can\u2019t tell you how glad I am to have you so pretty and comfortable here, and to hear every one saying such nice things about you. You\u2019ve got awfully nice friends,", "\u201cThose fellows are all very loyal, even Mainhall. They don\u2019t talk of any one else as they do of you.\u201d", "\u201cis the tiniest place you have ever seen.\u201d", "\u201cbut some of it was my mother\u2019s. Heaven knows how she managed to keep it whole, through all our wanderings, or in what baskets and bundles and theatre trunks it hasn\u2019t been stowed away. We always had our tea out of those blue cups when I was a little girl, sometimes in the queerest lodgings, and sometimes on a trunk at the theatre \u2014 queer theatres, for that matter.\u201d", "\u201cI have some champagne for you, too. I don\u2019t drink it myself, but I like to see it behave when it\u2019s poured. There is nothing else that looks so jolly.\u201d", "\u201cThank you. But I don\u2019t like it so well as this.", "\u201cYou have traveled, you say. Have you been in Paris much these late years?\u201d", "\u201cOh, yes, I go over to Paris often. There are few changes in the old Quarter. Dear old Madame Anger is dead \u2014 but perhaps you don\u2019t remember her?\u201d", "\u201cDon\u2019t I, though! I\u2019m so sorry to hear it. How did her son turn out? I remember how she saved and scraped for him, and how he always lay abed till ten o\u2019clock. He was the laziest fellow at the Beaux Arts; and that\u2019s saying a good deal.\u201d", "\u201cWell, he is still clever and lazy. They say he is a good architect when he will work. He\u2019s a big, handsome creature, and he hates Americans as much as ever. But Angel \u2014 do you remember Angel?\u201d", "\u201cPerfectly. Did she ever get back to Brittany and her bains de mer?\u201d", "\u201cHow jolly it was being young, Hilda! Do you remember that first walk we took together in Paris? We walked down to the Place Saint-Michel to buy some lilacs. Do you remember how sweet they smelled?\u201d", "\u201cIndeed I do. Come, we\u2019ll have our coffee in the other room, and you can smoke.\u201d", "\u201cWhat a warm, soft spring evening that was,", "\u201cand the sky, over the bridges, was just the color of the lilacs. We walked on down by the river, didn\u2019t we?\u201d", "\u201cIt was on the Quai we met that woman who was crying so bitterly. I gave her a spray of lilac, I remember, and you gave her a franc. I was frightened at your prodigality.\u201d", "\u201cDear me, why did you do that? I had quite forgotten \u2014 I was back there. It was very jolly,", "\u201cWell, we are neither of us twenty now, you know. Have I told you about my new play? Mac is writing one; really for me this time. You see, I\u2019m coming on.\u201d", "\u201cI\u2019ve seen nothing else. What kind of a part is it? Shall you wear yellow gowns? I hope so.\u201d", "\u201cNo, it isn\u2019t a dress-up part. He doesn\u2019t seem to fancy me in fine feathers. He says I ought to be minding the pigs at home, and I suppose I ought. But he\u2019s given me some good Irish songs. Listen.\u201d", "\u201cSing \u2018The Harp That Once,\u2019 Hilda. You used to sing it so well.\u201d", "\u201cNonsense. Of course I can\u2019t really sing, except the way my mother and grandmother did before me. Most actresses nowadays learn to sing properly, so I tried a master; but he confused me, just!\u201d", "\u201cIt\u2019s really too warm in this room to sing. Don\u2019t you feel it?\u201d", "\u201cAren\u2019t you afraid to let the wind low like that on your neck? Can\u2019t I get a scarf or something?\u201d", "\u201cAsk a theatre lady if she\u2019s afraid of drafts!", "\u201cBut perhaps, as I\u2019m so warm \u2014 give me your handkerchief. There, just in front.", "\u201cIsn\u2019t London a tomb on Sunday night?\u201d", "\u201cIt\u2019s soft and misty. See how white the stars are.\u201d", "\u201cHere, take it. You must go now, Bartley. Good-night.\u201d", "\u201cYes. Take it and go. This isn\u2019t fair, you know. Good-night.\u201d", "\"one of the large ones, -- about four feet in diameter.\"", "\"W'y, Will, it's round. How can a round thing saw? An' it han't got no 'andle! How could any man lay 'old of it to saw?\"", "\"The carpenter here don't require no handles,", "\"Now, let's see what they do with these planks. Come here.\"", "\"W'y, Willum, it seems to me that if you go on improvin' things at this rate there won't be no use in a short time for 'uman 'ands at all. We'll just 'ave to sit still an' let machinery do our work for us, an' all the trades-people will be throwd out of employment.\"", "\"you bein' old enough to remember the time w'en there wasn't five joiners' shops in Clatterby, with p'rhaps fifty men and boys employed, and now there's hundreds of joiners, and other shops of all kinds in the town, besides these here railway works which, as you know, keeps about 3500 hands goin' all the year round?\"", "\"That boy is one of the best workers of his age in the shop.\"", "\"I'm glad to 'ear it. You see, mother, when you gits to be old an' 'elpless, you'll not need to mind, 'cause I'll support you.\"", "\"Well, I s'pose the big 'ammer that Bob says is as 'eavy as five carts of coals must be 'ereabouts?", "\"Why there, that big thing just before you,", "\"you mustn't expect me for to believe that. I may believe that the moon is made of green cheese, but I won't believe that that's a 'ammer.\"", "\"Indeed it is; you shall see presently.\"", "'So charmed to make your acquaintance, Mr. Weatherhead,", "'Did you tell Mr. Weatherhead, Lily, about Bingo", "'he thought Tacks was a nasty burglar, didn't he? he wasn't going to see Master robbed, was he?'", "'Bingo is a dog that does not attach himself easily to strangers", "'cloudy -- rain before morning, I think. By the way, have you seen anything of my Bingo in here?'", "'he hasn't given you the slip, has he?'", "'he rushed off after a rat or a frog or something a few minutes ago, and as I stopped to light another cheroot I lost sight of him. I thought I saw him slip in under your gate, but I've been calling him from the front there and he won't come out.'", "'if he had slipped in under the gate, I should have seen him. Perhaps he took it into his head to run home?'", "'Oh, I shall find him on the doorstep, I expect, the knowing old scamp! Why, what d'ye think was the last thing he did, now?'", "'wasn't that his bark? There again; it seems to come from the front of your house, don't you think?'", "'I'll go and fasten him up before he's off again. How your teeth are chattering -- you've caught a chill, man -- go indoors at once and, if you feel equal to it, look in half an hour later about grog time, and I'll tell you all about it. Compliments to your mother. Don't forget -- about grog time!", "\u201cYes, we did some fine things in our time and we gave that poor cardinal a few threads to unravel.\u201d", "\u201cI lost Madame du Vallon two years ago,", "\u201cand you find me still in affliction on that account. That was the reason why I left my Chateau du Vallon near Corbeil, and came to my estate, Bracieux. Poor Madame du Vallon! her temper was uncertain, but she came at last to accustom herself to my little ways and understand my little wishes.\u201d", "\u201cI am a widower and have forty thousand francs a year. Let us go to breakfast.\u201d", "\u201cI shall be happy to do so; the morning air has made me hungry.\u201d", "\u201cthis is my usual style.\u201d", "\u201cI wish you joy of it. The king has nothing like it.\u201d", "\u201cI hear it said that he is very badly fed by the cardinal, Monsieur de Mazarin. Taste this cutlet, my dear D\u2019Artagnan; \u2019tis off one of my sheep.\u201d", "\u201cYou have very tender mutton and I wish you joy of it.", "\u201cYes, the sheep are fed in my meadows, which are excellent pasture.\u201d", "\u201cNo, try this hare, which I had killed yesterday in one of my warrens.\u201d", "\u201cah! they are fed on thyme only, your hares.\u201d", "\u201cIt is nothing, however, but a wine of the country.\u201d", "\u201cYes, a small declivity to the south, yonder on my hill, gives me twenty hogsheads.\u201d", "\u201cQuite a vineyard, hey?\u201d", "\u201cExcellent, my dear friend; better than ever. I could kill an ox with a blow of my fist.\u201d", "\u201cWell, then, family affairs, perhaps?\u201d", "\u201cFamily! I have, happily, only myself in the world to care for.\u201d", "\u201cto be candid with you, I am not happy.\u201d", "\u201cYou are not happy, Porthos? You who have chateau, meadows, mountains, woods \u2014 you who have forty thousand francs a year \u2014 you \u2014 are \u2014 not \u2014 happy?\u201d", "\u201cMy dear friend, all those things I have, but I am a hermit in the midst of superfluity.\u201d", "\u201cSurrounded, I suppose, only by clodhoppers, with whom you could not associate.\u201d", "\u201cthat you are a widower, your wife\u2019s connection cannot injure you.\u201d", "\u201cA baron, don\u2019t you mean?", "\u201cWell, my friend, I am come to give you this very title which you wish for so much.\u201d", "\u201cthat you have still that honest lad with you.\u201d", "\u201che will never leave me. Go away now, Mouston.\u201d", "\u201c\u2019tis too long a word to pronounce \u2018Mousqueton.\u2019\u201d", "\u201clet us resume our conversation later, your people may suspect something; there may be spies about. You can suppose, Porthos, that what I have to say relates to most important matters.\u201d", "\u201cDevil take them; let us walk in the park,", "\u201cthe park is like everything else and there are as many fish in your pond as rabbits in your warren; you are a happy man, my friend since you have not only retained your love of the chase, but acquired that of fishing.\u201d", "\u201cI leave fishing to Mousqueton, \u2014 it is a vulgar pleasure, \u2014 but I shoot sometimes; that is to say, when I am dull, and I sit on one of those marble seats, have my gun brought to me, my favorite dog, and I shoot rabbits.\u201d", "\u201cReally, how very amusing!\u201d", "\u201cHowever, what had you to say to me?", "\u201clet us return to that subject.\u201d", "\u201cI must, however, first frankly tell you that you must change your mode of life.\u201d", "\u201cGo into harness again, gird on your sword, run after adventures, and leave as in old times a little of your fat on the roadside.\u201d", "\u201cI see you are spoiled, dear friend; you are corpulent, your arm has no longer that movement of which the late cardinal\u2019s guards have so many proofs.\u201d", "\u201cAh! my fist is strong enough I swear,", "\u201cBy my troth, yes.\u201d", "\u201cAre you for Mazarin or for the princes?\u201d", "\u201cThat is to say, you are for us. Well, I tell you that I come to you from the cardinal.\u201d", "\u201cHo! ho! What are the wishes of his eminence?\u201d", "\u201cAnd who spoke to him of me?\u201d", "\u201cRochefort \u2014 you remember him?\u201d", "\u201cYes, pardieu! It was he who gave us so much trouble and kept us on the road so much; you gave him three sword-wounds in three separate engagements.\u201d", "\u201cNo, I didn\u2019t know that. So he cherishes no resentment?\u201d", "\u201cthat the Count de Rochefort spoke of me to the cardinal?\u201d", "\u201cTo inspire us with confidence she has even placed in Mazarin\u2019s hands that famous diamond \u2014 you remember all about it \u2014 that I once sold to Monsieur des Essarts and of which, I don\u2019t know how, she has regained possession.\u201d", "\u201cthat she would have done much better if she had given it back to you.\u201d", "\u201cbut kings and queens are strange beings and have odd fancies; nevertheless, since they are the ones who have riches and honors, we are devoted to them.\u201d", "\u201cYes, we are devoted to them,", "\u201cand you \u2014 to whom are you devoted now?\u201d", "\u201cTo the king, the queen, and to the cardinal; moreover, I have answered for your devotion also.\u201d", "\u201cAnd you say that you have made certain conditions on my behalf?\u201d", "\u201cMagnificent, my dear fellow, magnificent! In the first place you have plenty of money, haven\u2019t you? forty thousand francs income, I think you said.\u201d", "\u201cone never has too much money. Madame du Vallon left things in much disorder; I am not much of a hand at figures, so that I live almost from hand to mouth.\u201d", "\u201cHe is afraid I have come to borrow money,", "\u201cit is all the better if you are in difficulties.\u201d", "\u201cYes, for his eminence will give you all that you want \u2014 land, money, and titles.\u201d", "\u201cAh! ah! ah!", "\u201cwe didn\u2019t know enough to make our profits; this, however, doesn\u2019t concern you, with your forty thousand francs income, the happiest man in the world, it seems to me.\u201d", "\u201cnotwithstanding your forty thousand francs a year, and perhaps even for the very reason that you have forty thousand francs a year, it seems to me that a little coronet would do well on your carriage, hey?\u201d", "\u201cYes indeed,", "\u201cI desire to be made a baron.\u201d", "\u201cAnd have you not seen any of our other friends?\u201d", "\u201cAnd what does he wish? To be a bishop?\u201d", "\u201cAramis, fancy, has become a monk and a Jesuit, and lives like a bear. My offers did not arouse him, \u2014 did not even tempt him.\u201d", "\u201cSo much the worse! He was a clever man. And Athos?\u201d", "\u201cI have not yet seen him. Do you know where I shall find him?\u201d", "\u201cNear Blois. He is called Bragelonne. Only imagine, my dear friend. Athos, who was of as high birth as the emperor and who inherits one estate which gives him the title of comte, what is he to do with all those dignities \u2014 the Comte de la Fere, Comte de Bragelonne?\u201d", "\u201cAnd he has no children with all these titles?\u201d", "\u201cI have heard that he had adopted a young man who resembles him greatly.\u201d", "\u201cWell, I shall see him to-morrow and tell him about you; but I\u2019m afraid, entre nous, that his liking for wine has aged and degraded him.\u201d", "\u201cYes, he used to drink a great deal,", "\u201cSome years only. His gravity made him look older than he was.\u201d", "\u201cWell then, if we can get Athos, all will be well. If we cannot, we will do without him. We two are worth a dozen.\u201d", "\u201cbut we four, altogether, would be equal to thirty-six, more especially as you say the work will not be child\u2019s play. Will it last long?\u201d", "\u201cBy\u2019r Lady! two or three years perhaps.\u201d", "\u201cAh, things go on gaily, then,", "\u201cWe shall have set battles, cannonades, conflagrations and there will be great variety.\u201d", "\u201cWell, then, I decide.\u201d", "\u201cBut he must make me a baron.\u201d", "\u201cthat\u2019s settled already; I will be responsible for the barony.\u201d", "\"No, my boy. The church is not yet built. That will come in seventy years. In eighteen-sixty, to be exact. Confusing, is it not?\"", "\"Good morning, my boy,", "\"I trust you slept well?\"", "\"Yes sir. And Mr. Cilley -- he fed me too.\"", "\"Ned Cilley so early? Well, he is a loyal soul, is Cilley. You shall know more of him.\"", "\"Feel? Well -- all right, I guess, in a way. But there's a sort of spinning in my head and my stomach if I try to figure any of this out. I just don't get it.", "\"If I can just go now, please?", "\"Sit down, Christopher my lad,", "\"We have much to talk of, you and I. But first, your mind and heart shall be put at ease. Do you know who I am?\"", "\"You sell old stuff. That's all I know,", "\"I sell old things -- in your time. But now -- in this time, what do you know of me?\"", "\"I am a shipowner, Christopher, for one thing,", "\"I am also quite a fine magician,", "\"Not rabbits out of hats. That -- as you would say -- is for toddlers. Suppose I prove to you just how good?\"", "\"I have been in my twentieth-century shape so that you would recognize me. Now I shall regain my appearance of this time -- not a great change, I grant you, but there will be a difference. Watch me closely.\"", "\"I don't believe it!", "\"A good trick, do you not agree?\"", "\"Ah. Then we shall try another. See if you can find me.", "\"You've got some trick hiding place. You're just not here.\"", "\"I am within reach of your hand, Christopher,", "\"And I will reappear in whatever part of the room you wish. Choose.\"", "\"by the window. There's nothing anywhere around it. Come back there.\"", "'Tell me what you are talking about.'", "'What she could have said to convey such an idea passes my comprehension,", "'but she knows nothing -- she's a mere child. I have felt from the first, my boy, that your aunt's intention was to benefit you quite as much as my own daughter. Believe me, I shall not attempt to restrict you in any way; I shall be too rejoiced to see you come forth in safety from the Grey Chamber.'", "'Augustus and I have much to talk about which is not for your ears.'", "'you must not tell her; it will kill her; she is not strong!", "'it was for your own good that the whole truth has been thus concealed from you; but now, perhaps, the time has come when the truest kindness will be to reveal all. What do you say, Augustus?'", "'Break to her, then, the nature of the ordeal which lies before you.'", "'Chlorine, compose yourself, dearest one; sit down there, and summon up all your fortitude to hear what I am about to tell you. You must know, then -- I think you had better let your mother give you a cup of tea before I begin; it will steady your nerves.'", "'And are you one of its thralls then, papa?", "'Sir Paul, you -- you mustn't stop there, or you'll alarm Chlorine more than there's any need to do. She -- ha, ha! -- don't you see, she has got some idea into her head that I have to go through much the same sort of thing. Just explain that to her. I'", "'but the time for deceiving her has gone by; she must know the worst. Yes, my poor child,", "'unhappily, though our beloved Augustus is not a Catafalque himself, he has of his own free will brought himself within the influence of the Curse, and he, too, at the appointed hour, must keep the awful assignation, and brave all that the most fiendish malevolence can do to shake his resolution.'", "'In 1770, it is true, one solitary suitor was emboldened by love and daring to face the ordeal. He went calmly and resolutely to the chamber where the Curse was then lodged, and the next morning they found him outside the door -- a gibbering maniac!'", "'promise me you will not permit the Curse to turn you into a gibbering maniac. I think if I saw you gibber I should die!'", "'there is no cause for alarm; all has been made smooth for Augustus.", "'that in the nineteenth century, hardly six miles from Charing Cross, you can calmly allow this hideous \"Curse,\" or whatever you call it, to have things all its own way like this.'", "'If the Curse has any business with me, let it come down and settle it here before you all in a plain straightforward manner. Let us go about it in a business-like way. On second thoughts,", "'And why -- why won't you meet it?", "'How can I have any dealings with a preposterous supernatural something which my reason forbids me to believe in? You see my difficulty? It would be inconsistent, to begin with, and -- and extremely painful to both sides.'", "'It may be terribly remembered against you when the hour comes. Keep a guard over your tongue, for all our sakes, and more especially your own. Recollect that the Curse knows all that passes beneath this roof. And do not forget, too, that you are pledged -- irrevocably pledged. You must confront the Curse!'", "'m not Augustus McFadden at all. My real name is of no consequence -- but it's a prettier one than that. As for McFadden, he, I regret to say, is now no more.'", "'you have indeed deceived us basely.'", "'When I described McFadden as dead,", "\u201cI don\u2019t believe anything so horrible,", "\u201cYou reminded him that Quint was only a base menial?\u201d", "\u201cAs you might say! And it was his answer, for one thing, that was bad.\u201d", "\u201cNo, not that. It\u2019s just what he wouldn\u2019t!", "\u201cI was sure, at any rate,", "\u201cthat he didn\u2019t. But he denied certain occasions.\u201d", "\u201cWhen they had been about together quite as if Quint were his tutor \u2014 and a very grand one \u2014 and Miss Jessel only for the little lady. When he had gone off with the fellow, I mean, and spent hours with him.\u201d", "\u201cHe then prevaricated about it \u2014 he said he hadn\u2019t?", "\u201cI see. He lied.\u201d", "\u201cYou see, after all, Miss Jessel didn\u2019t mind. She didn\u2019t forbid him.\u201d", "\u201cDid he put that to you as a justification?\u201d", "\u201cNo, he never spoke of it.\u201d", "\u201cNever mentioned her in connection with Quint?\u201d", "\u201cWell, he didn\u2019t show anything. He denied,", "\u201cSo that you could see he knew what was between the two wretches?\u201d", "\u201cI don\u2019t know \u2014 I don\u2019t know!", "\u201cYou do know, you dear thing,", "\u201cthat he covered and concealed their relation.\u201d", "\u201cYour learning the truth? I daresay! But, heavens,", "\u201cwhat it shows that they must, to that extent, have succeeded in making of him!\u201d", "\u201cAh, nothing that\u2019s not nice now!", "\u201cwhen I mentioned to you the letter from his school!\u201d", "\u201cI doubt if I looked as queer as you!", "\u201cAnd if he was so bad then as that comes to, how is he such an angel now?\u201d", "\u201cYes, indeed \u2014 and if he was a fiend at school! How, how, how? Well,", "\u201cyou must put it to me again, but I shall not be able to tell you for some days. Only, put it to me again!", "\u201cThere are directions in which I must not for the present let myself go.", "\u201cIf Quint \u2014 on your remonstrance at the time you speak of \u2014 was a base menial, one of the things Miles said to you, I find myself guessing, was that you were another.", "\u201cMiss Flora was with the woman. It suited them all!\u201d", "\u201cHis having lied and been impudent are, I confess, less engaging specimens than I had hoped to have from you of the outbreak in him of the little natural man. Still,", "\u201cThey must do, for they make me feel more than ever that I must watch.\u201d", "\"and spend a week at The Rosebud.\"", "\"Put 'em off. Fulfil 'em when you come back. At all events,", "\"but give me no buts. You know that you've no good reason for refusing.\"", "\"What, the infant who opened the door to me?\"", "\"Yes, Tottie Bones; she is obliged to stay at nights with me just now, owing to her mother, poor thing, being under the necessity of shutting up her house while she goes to look after a drunken husband, who has forsaken her.\"", "\"Don't you think it's a sort of -- of -- unavoidable necessity?", "\"Not at all, my dear, not at all. I have avoided it. So have you. If I had my way, I'd put a stop to marriage altogether, and bring this miserable world to an abrupt close. -- But little Bones is no difficulty: we'll take her along with us.\"", "\"Well, what further objections, Lilly?\"", "\"Indeed it is too true; and, you know, you couldn't stand a baby.\"", "\"How d'you know that? Let me see it.\"", "\"Ha! I suppose little Bones is behind it,", "\"You're sixty-six, at the least, compared with male creatures of the same age,", "\"Have you a bonnet and shawl, little Bones?\"", "\"Go and put 'em on then, and get that thing also ready to go out.\"", "\"on'y rather self-willed at times, m'm,", "\"Just so. True to your woman's nature. Always ready to apologise for the male monster that tyrannises over you. I suppose, now, you'd say that your drunken father was a good man?\"", "\"Indeed I would, m'm. Oh! you've no notion 'ow kind father is w'en 'e's not in liquor.\"", "\"There, there. Of course he is. I didn't mean to say he wasn't, little Bones. It's a curious fact that many drun -- , I mean people given to drink, are kind and amiable. It's a disease. Go now, and get your things on, and do you likewise, Lilly. My cab is at the door. Be quick.\"", "\"Stay here, Lilly, with the baby. -- Jump out, little Bones. Come with me.\"", "\"suitable for this child -- only see that it's not a doll's hat. Let it fit her.\"", "\"She only wants wings and washing to make her an angel,", "\"Oh, bybie! it's 'eaven upon earth, ain't it, darling?\"", "\"That's right, darling. Ain't it fun? And such flowers too -- oh! all for nothing, only got to pull 'em. Yes, roll away, darling, you can't dirty yourself 'ere. Come, I shall 'ave a roll too.", "\"Where, and when, and why did you find that child?", "\"Because she has a bad affection of the lungs. If she were under more favourable circumstances she might recover.\"", "\"Pooh! nonsense. People constantly recover from what is called bad affection of the lungs. Can nothing be done for her?\"", "\"Little Tottie must be rescued, you know, and I have set my heart on doing it.\"", "\"No, you shan't rescue her,", "\"you've got all London at your feet, and there's plenty more where that one came from. Come, Lilly, you mustn't be greedy. You may have the baby if you like, but you must leave little Bones to me.\"", "\"If you please, m'm, I can't eat any more,", "\"Can't eat more, child? -- try,", "\"Come, Tot, you and I shall go out for a walk.\"", "\"Now, Tot, tell father all about your visit to Miss Stivergill. She's very rich -- eh?\"", "\"No, nor a 'oss -- not even a pony,", "\"No, only women -- two of 'em, and very nice they was too. One fat and short, the other tall and thin. I liked the fat one best.\"", "\"Come now, Tot, tell me all about the cottage -- inside first, the rooms and winders, an' specially the box of treasure. Then we'll come to the garden, an' so we'll get out by degrees to the fields and flowers. Go ahead, Tot.\"", "\"We're beyond the bridge -- they might be -- well, we'd better be careful. I want to see what they're doing before they see us.\"", "\"I've no money to pay you,", "\"I'm a poor man -- well you know it. A cripple -- just a poor old cripple!\"", "\"Ah -- none o' that!", "\"We know how well you do at your begging -- more in a day than we get in a month's pay. Pay up now, or it won't go well with you,", "\"What about your glass, your spyglass, Gosler?", "\"Put that up and it will cover your losses well enough!", "\"No, no, good fellows,", "\"not my glass. I won that from the Captain himself three years ago, and that I never shall part from willingly.\"", "\"You'd part from it for silver quick enough!", "\"and of that you must have plenty, for 'tis rare you ever lose. Come now, we'll give you a few minutes more to make up your mind, but make it up you must. Either the glass or silver, you may choose.\"", "\"Hide here behind those bushes and don't follow me. Don't move or show yourself. I'm going to have that glass.\"", "\"I've heard what went on, Simon Gosler,", "\"and if you will sell your spyglass to me, I'll buy it off you with this silver piece. Otherwise you shall not have it.\"", "\"will you take the coin in fair exchange, or shall I hit you again with that club you just felt?", "\"It doesn't feel the same when you get it back as when you give it out, does it, you old faker? Hurry up -- your friends will soon be coming back, and I don't think they intend to argue,", "\"Very well, you nasty young man, I'll sell my glass. Give me the coin!", "\"No indeed! You put the glass down between us -- carefully, mind you -- and back away. I'll throw you the coin when I've seen if the glass is worth the silver!\"", "\"And it's a fine one -- best I ever saw,", "\"Here, try it out over the river there, where that ship is anchored.\"", "\"you look. That's a mighty fine ship out there, black as the Mirabelle is white, but she looks fast and strong just the same.\"", "\"What-all comes next, and have we some more of those dates?\"", "\"and by the look of the light that won't be long.\"", "\"Strike 3.\"", "\"it's time for me to go. Are you awake?\"", "\"I have a handy thing here which is for you to use only -- do you hear? only if I don't come back.\"", "\"Don't come back? Law! Chris, don't you leave me in this heathen country where nobody understands good English!", "\"Why, unless I'd steal, and Miss Becky told me never to do that -- but unless I did, how could I eat in these foreign parts?\"", "\"Well, I don't know how you could, myself. But don't you cross any bridges until you come to them. Look.", "\"If I'm not back by two sunups from now -- I may have to hide all during tomorrow -- if I'm not back by then, put this package out beyond the trees in the clearing. That's very important. You've got that?\"", "\"I haven't got anything but a few old dried-up fruits,", "\"Oh yes, of course. Why didn't you say so in the first place? You said, put the package out in the clear. Where's that, on this tippy-top of a hill?", "\"The ledge near where we climbed up. That's big enough,", "\"Amos! Not now! I said only if you have to get away. If someone comes after you, or if I don't come back. Promise me not to strike three at all except for either of those two reasons.\"", "\"what happens when I do hit three times?\"", "\"Why, it's a mag -- it's a special kind of balloon,", "\"A balloon. Oh.\"", "\"Me in the air over the roofs and high up? No indeedy, Chris! Not me.\"", "\"Look, Amos. If you have to use it, you'll be in such a bad fix that being up in the air will seem like the very best thing that could happen. Stop running. I'll be back -- I hope.\"", "\"And now, wish me luck, and stay here and wait for me. Don't follow me now, or watch, or I might fail.\"", "\"can't I go? You might get hurt. There's no telling what could happen if you're all alone!\"", "\"Better not. But I'd sure like to, Amos. Now don't lose that package. It's your escape. Wish me luck.\"", "\"Here, Chris. Our fruits. Better not to eat strange food in this foreigny place. Good luck,", "\"Men, you have followed me for many a voyage and I have always brought you safely home. Is it not so?\"", "\"What lies ahead of us in the next few hours will not make good sense to many of you. Nevertheless I ask for your instant help, and you shall see what lies at the end of my orders when we reach that time. Are you with me?\"", "\"I thank you. Now crowd on all the sail she will take, boys, for the Venture follows hard upon us!\"", "\"It would be my advice, lad, to go below and sleep for a bit. You too, Amos. I shall send Ned to awaken you when land is sighted.\"", "\"and join the Captain, sez he to me, for land is just ahead and the Captain do be waiting you on the bridge, Chris, me lad.\"", "\"Impossible to tell how close behind the Venture may be. We have come quickly, but they have the faster ship. I have no wish to give them more clue than necessary as to where we may be.", "\"Land is off the starboard quarter, and Abner Cloud is out on the bowsprit looking for the reef. We have passed our anchorage -- they expected us, or some other ship, for fires were lit on shore. Sail has been taken in; we are going slowly and will soon be there, by my reckoning.\"", "\"and hurry. Happen your eyes are sharper than Abner's. Sing out when you spy the reef. We will heave to, and then God be with you, my lad, to find us out the channel to the cove!\"", "\"There's a dangerous shelf of coral that juts out on the port side -- if you let me go first, and the men man the boats and row her in, I think we shall do it safely even in this light.\"", "\"Well lad, we do what we must, and you and I understand one another. Ahoy there!", "\"Man the boats! We shall tow the Mirabelle to cover, for there's a channel here!\"", "\"Now Christopher, my boy, do you go down and go over the side again, and remember what we spoke of a few hours agone!\"", "\"The length of two boats, keeping to starboard, boys. Then ease her over this way -- to port.\"", "\"you said you could do it, but truth to tell, I doubted it from the bottom of my heart. Now that you have succeeded where I am sure no other could have done as well, I find I have no words of praise good enough for ye.", "\"I am proud of you, Christopher. You did a man's task with a boy's body and mind. And it took a man's spirit, too.\"", "\"do you go to your well-deserved rest. Depend upon it, we shall cover the ship with green until she looks like the proverbial Christmas hall decked with boughs of holly, as the song goes!", "\"A little later in the day you shall be called to see what you make of the result. And now, to bed with ye both!", "\"A good thing I was trying to catch up with you. Just missed you at the Precinct House, came after you, and saw you turn in here. Then I heard the rumpus. A good thing for me, too, maybe.\"", "\"How so? And what happened?", "\"Forget that part. There's room enough for two in my place -- and I guess Mother Corey won't mind. I'm damned glad you were following me.\"", "\"So'm I, Gordon. What'll we do with the prisoners?\"", "\"Leave 'em; we couldn't get a Croopster locked up tonight for anything.\"", "\"This is the first time I've had to look you up,", "\"I've been going out nights to help the citizens organize against the Stonewall gang. But that's over now -- they gave me hell for inciting vigilante action, and confined me inside the dome. The way they hate a decent cop here, you'd think honesty was contagious.\"", "\"Thanks, Gordon. I'm turning in right now.\"", "\"I'm from the Ajax Householders Protection Group,", "\"What does your boss Jurgens figure on doing, punk? Taking over all the rackets for the whole city?\"", "\"Take these two back to young Jurgens, boys, and tell him to keep his punks out of my house.\"", "\"we've got a little social game going upstairs -- the room with the window. Fine view of the parades. We need a fourth.\"", "\"This is Ed Praeger. He's an engineer on our railroad.\"", "\"So there really is a surrounding countryside,", "\"There are even cities out there, Gordon. Nothing like Marsport, but that's no loss. That's where the real population of Mars is -- decent people, men who are going to turn this into a real planet some day.\"", "\"First ace deals. Damn it, Mother, sit down-wind from me, won't you? Or else take a bath.\"", "\"I never meant to go back. I've got me a farm up north. Another ten years, and I retire to it. My kids are up there now -- grandkids, that is. They're Martians; maybe you won't believe me, but they can breathe the air here without a helmet.\"", "\"They'll take the planet away from Earth yet,", "\"Marsport is strictly artificial. It's kept going only because it's the only place where Earth will set down her ships. If Security doesn't do anything, time will.\"", "\"Yeah, I know. The government set them up, gave them a mixture of powers, and has been trying to keep them from working ever since. But somehow they did clean up Venus; and every crook here is scared to death of the name. How come a muckraking newspaperman like you never turned up anything on them, Gordon?\"", "\"Don't sell them short, cobber. I did -- once.... You forget them, here, after a while. But they're around....\"", "\"If Security's so damned powerful, why doesn't it stop that?", "\"They might do it, Gordon. They just might. But are you sure you want it stopped?\"", "\"Trench took forever giving it to us, Mother. But it's the same old deal; all the police gees get tomorrow off -- you, too, gov'nor. No cops to influence the vote, that's the word. We even gotta wear civvies when we go out to vote for Wayne.\"", "\"Put a uniform on some men and they begin to believe they're cops, eh, cobber?\"", "\"Entreat her honourably and enrich her poverty.", "\"As though ptisane of wine on her lips honey dew * Dropt from the ripened grapes her mouth in clusters grew And, when her frame thou doublest, and low bends her vine, * Praise her Creator's might no creature ever knew.\"", "\"Goodly of gifts is she, and charm those perfect eyes, * With lashes shaming Kohl and all the fair ones Kohl'd[FN#66] And from those eyne the glances pierce the lover's heart, * Like sword in M\u00edr al-Mumin\u00edna Ali's hold.\"", "\"Appeared not my excuse till hair had clothed his cheek, * And gloom o'ercrept that side-face (sight to stagger!) A fawn, when eyes would batten on his charms, * Each glance deals thrust like point of Khanjar-dagger.\"", "\"Now is my dread to incur reproaches, which * Disturb her temper and her mind obscure, Patient I'll bear them; e'en as generous youth his case to cure.'' * Beareth the burn of brand his case to cure.\"[FN#7", "\"Thou sayest sooth, O wise King!", "\"O my son! I have some what to say to thee which I would fain leave unsaid; yet I must tell it thee despite my inclination.", "\"I have no longer a place in my aunt's house nor among these people, but I will go forth from the palace and abide in the corners of the city.", "\"Alas, O my naunty, how is it with thy son?", "\"O my daughter, sooth to say, he is tearful-eyed and heavy hearted, being fallen into the net of thy love.", "\"O son of mine uncle! same sorrow I bear, * And suffer the like of thy cark and thy care Yet hide I from man what I suffer for pine; * Hide it too, and such secret to man never bare!\"", "\"Leave this blame, I will list to no flout of my foe! * I divulged a secret was told me to keep: He is lost to my sight for whose union I yearn, * And I watch all the while he can slumber and sleep.\"", "\"Where is thine eye, O Zau al- Makan?", "\"Would Heaven we knew what hath befallen Kanmakan that he fled his native town, and chased himself from the place where his father used to fill all in hungry case and do justice and grace?", "\u201cCosette! she! you! Madame! it is thou! Ah! my God!\u201d", "\u201cIt is thou! thou art here! Thou dost pardon me then!\u201d", "\u201cAnd you also, you pardon me!", "\u201c\u2018You fancy that you are about to be abandoned, stupid! No. No, things will not go so. Come, there is a good man yonder who is in need of an angel.\u2019 And the angel comes, and one sees one\u2019s Cosette again! and one sees one\u2019s little Cosette once more! Ah! I was very unhappy.\u201d", "\u201cSo you are here! Monsieur Pontmercy, you pardon me!", "\u201cwhy did you not tell it to me? It is your own fault, too. You save people\u2019s lives, and you conceal it from them! You do more, under the pretext of unmasking yourself, you calumniate yourself. It is frightful.\u201d", "\u201cthe truth is the whole truth; and that you did not tell. You were Monsieur Madeleine, why not have said so? You saved Javert, why not have said so? I owed my life to you, why not have said so?\u201d", "\u201cBecause I thought as you do. I thought that you were in the right. It was necessary that I should go away. If you had known about that affair, of the sewer, you would have made me remain near you. I was therefore forced to hold my peace. If I had spoken, it would have caused embarrassment in every way.\u201d", "\u201cIt would have embarrassed what? embarrassed whom?", "\u201cI shall not be here, but I shall not be with you.\u201d", "\u201cAh! come now, we are not going to permit any more journeys. You shall never leave us again. You belong to us. We shall not loose our hold of you.\u201d", "\u201cWe have a carriage at the door. I shall run away with you. If necessary, I shall employ force.\u201d", "\u201cYour chamber still stands ready in our house,", "\u201cThe proof that God is good is that she is here.\u201d", "\u201cyour hands are still colder than before. Are you ill? Do you suffer?\u201d", "\u201cCosette, thou wert talking to me, go on, so thy little robin red-breast is dead? Speak, so that I may hear thy voice.\u201d", "\u201cFather! my father! you will live. You are going to live. I insist upon your living, do you hear?\u201d", "\u201cOh! yes, forbid me to die. Who knows? Perhaps I shall obey. I was on the verge of dying when you came. That stopped me, it seemed to me that I was born again.\u201d", "\u201cthat Marius says that you shall not die.\u201d", "\u201cthat is no reason for being unjust towards God.\u201d", "\u201cIt is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live.\u201d", "\u201cFather, do not leave us. Is it possible that we have found you only to lose you again?\u201d", "\u201cHe is coming back! doctor, he is coming back,", "\u201chad you not better wrap a shawl about you; it is time to be off.\u201d", "\u201cNot coming? But you must. You know it is not only a request; it is an order from Miss Lauderdale. Every student is to be in East Hall at half-past eight.\u201d", "\u201cwhether it is an order or not; I\u2019m not coming. Say nothing about me, please. I shall stay at home to-night.\u201d", "\u201cBut why? You will only get yourself into trouble, and there is surely no use in that. Oh, Annie, I know you are dreadfully unhappy about something, and I wish I could comfort you. Do \u2014 do let me.\u201d", "\u201cI ought not to leave you. You ought to lie down and see a doctor. Do let me go and tell Miss Frere. I know your being ill will make all the difference.\u201d", "\u201cYou are to go, and say nothing about me. Because you happen to be my roomfellow, are you to control my actions? I am longing for you to leave the room. You don\u2019t know what a trial it is for me to have you here. Why will you keep on prying, and fussing, and interfering. I want to be alone \u2014 go!\u201d", "\u201cYou fret me beyond endurance. Since you came I feel myself tied and bound. Yes; you annoy me more than words can tell.\u201d", "\u201cI am quite sure it is because she is so unhappy,", "\u201cShe does not know what she is saying. I ought not to mind her \u2014 I mean I ought not to be really hurt; but there is nothing for it but to leave her for the present.\u201d", "\u201cis there not any message you would like me to take, Annie?\u201d", "\u201cTook it out! And why, may I ask? Have the goodness to find it and put it back.\u201d", "\u201cBut don\u2019t lock me out, please, Annie. You know on occasions you are absent-minded, and one-half of this room is mine when all\u2019s said and done. I pay for it, and I have a right to it.\u201d", "\u201cbut I must have the key. Please find it before you go.\u201d", "\u201cbut I don\u2019t know that I ought to tell tales out of school.\u201d", "\u201cAfter all, perhaps you ought to know, Jane. I am unhappy about Annie Colchester.\u201d", "\u201cif you begin to fret about the oddities of the college you will never know a moment\u2019s peace. I am told that that extraordinary and most unpleasant girl, Belle Acheson, has begun to take to you. Now don\u2019t, I beg of you, get into her set.\u201d", "\u201cto get into any set: but I do wish to be kind to Belle, for I think she has good points in her. You see, all the girls except Eileen and Marjorie laugh at her, and that seems to me to make her worse.\u201d", "\u201cBut there, you are one of the \u2018unco good,\u2019 I am afraid.\u201d", "\u201cI don\u2019t know that I am at all what you say; but any girl ought to be popular and good who was brought up by a mother like mine,", "\u201cSome day, Jane, you must see her. If you are in London during the summer, you must come and pay us a visit, will you?\u201d", "\u201cBut now, Leslie, what is the trouble? that is, if you care to confide in me.\u201d", "\u201cI believe poor Annie is dreadfully unhappy.\u201d", "\u201cPoor dear, perhaps she is; but she ought to be on her way to East Hall by now. Miss Lauderdale will be very angry with anyone who does not attend.\u201d", "\u201cThat\u2019s just it, Jane; that is what frightens me. She refuses to come.\u201d", "\u201cI believe she is ill, and does not quite know what she is saying,", "\u201cShe was very queer when I left her just now; that was why I was a little late. I felt her hand too, and it was very hot. I am sure she is ill. She works too hard, and she \u2014 \u2014 But there, I don\u2019t know that I ought to say any more.\u201d", "\u201cI\u2019ll go back and speak to her. It is my duty to save her from getting into hopeless disgrace.\u201d", "\u201cI have had the misfortune to irritate her a good deal during the last day or two, and you probably would have better success than I.\u201d", "\u201cI am Jane Heriot; I want to speak to you at once. Let me in.\u201d", "\u201caren\u2019t you coming to East Hall in response to Miss Lauderdale\u2019s orders? You will get into a most awful scrape if you don\u2019t. Do come, Annie; don\u2019t be such a goose. Why, they may rusticate you. Do come, Annie, do!\u201d", "\u201cShe seems to have turned both deaf and dumb, and I can do nothing with her,", "\u201cIt is just possible that she may have gone down the back-stairs, and be already in the hall.\u201d", "\u201cshe told me she was determined not to come to the meeting. By the way, we ought to meet Marjorie and Eileen in the center hall.\u201d", "\u201cThe physical part of your training, and also the mental part, are abundantly supplied in this great house of learning,", "\u201cbut the spiritual part, it seems to me, ought now to be strengthened. I want your whole threefold nature to get the best possible training while you are under my care, and I think that you girls of St. Wode\u2019s ought to take steps to keep the souls which God has given you, the undying souls, strong and in health.\u201d", "\u201cHear, hear! and once again, hear!", "\u201cit was but to-day, Miss Lauderdale, I was speaking of the miserable dead souls which most of the students of St. Wode\u2019s carry within their breasts.\u201d", "\u201cI will talk with you, Belle Acheson, presently,", "\u201c\u2018Am I my brother\u2019s keeper?\u2019 you ask,", "\u201cCan you give me any idea why she has been absent to-night?\u201d", "\u201cI see by your face, Miss Gilroy, that you are distressed about something. Are you keeping anything back?\u201d", "\u201cUnless Miss Colchester\u2019s illness is really very serious and needs a doctor, she will be very severely reprimanded for this willful disobedience to the command of her principal,", "\u201cI will tell her. I will do my very best,", "\u201cShe persists in denying to you that she saw, or has ever seen, anything?\u201d", "\u201cAh, miss, it isn\u2019t a matter on which I can push her! Yet it isn\u2019t either, I must say, as if I much needed to. It has made her, every inch of her, quite old.\u201d", "\u201cI think indeed, miss, she never will. She do have a grand manner about it!\u201d", "\u201cis practically what\u2019s the matter with her now!\u201d", "\u201cShe asks me every three minutes if I think you\u2019re coming in.\u201d", "\u201cHas she said to you since yesterday \u2014 except to repudiate her familiarity with anything so dreadful \u2014 a single other word about Miss Jessel?\u201d", "\u201cNot one, miss. And of course you know,", "\u201cI took it from her, by the lake, that, just then and there at least, there was nobody.\u201d", "\u201cRather! and, naturally, you take it from her still.\u201d", "\u201cI don\u2019t contradict her. What else can I do?\u201d", "\u201cYes, miss; but to what end?\u201d", "\u201cWhy, that of dealing with me to her uncle. She\u2019ll make me out to him the lowest creature \u2014 !\u201d", "\u201cHe has an odd way \u2014 it comes over me now,", "\u201cNever again to so much as look at you.\u201d", "\u201cSo that what you\u2019ve come to me now for,", "\u201cI\u2019ve a better idea \u2014 the result of my reflections. My going would seem the right thing, and on Sunday I was terribly near it. Yet that won\u2019t do. It\u2019s you who must go. You must take Flora.\u201d", "\u201cAway from here. Away from them. Away, even most of all, now, from me. Straight to her uncle.\u201d", "\u201cNo, not \u2018only\u2019! To leave me, in addition, with my remedy.\u201d", "\u201cAnd what is your remedy?\u201d", "\u201cYour loyalty, to begin with. And then Miles\u2019s.\u201d", "\u201cWon\u2019t, if he has the chance, turn on me? Yes, I venture still to think it. At all events, I want to try. Get off with his sister as soon as possible and leave me with him alone.", "\u201cthey mustn\u2019t, before she goes, see each other for three seconds.", "\u201cAh, miss, I\u2019m not such a fool as that! If I\u2019ve been obliged to leave her three or four times, it has been each time with one of the maids, and at present, though she\u2019s alone, she\u2019s locked in safe. And yet \u2014 and yet!", "\u201cWell, are you so sure of the little gentleman?\u201d", "\u201cNo, though I waited and waited, I confess it didn\u2019t, and it was without a breach of the silence or so much as a faint allusion to his sister\u2019s condition and absence that we at last kissed for good night. All the same,", "\u201cI can\u2019t, if her uncle sees her, consent to his seeing her brother without my having given the boy \u2014 and most of all because things have got so bad \u2014 a little more time.\u201d", "\u201cWhat do you mean by more time?\u201d", "\u201cI\u2019ll go \u2014 I\u2019ll go. I\u2019ll go this morning.\u201d", "\u201cIf you should wish still to wait, I would engage she shouldn\u2019t see me.\u201d", "\u201cNo, no: it\u2019s the place itself. She must leave it.", "\u201cYou mean that, since yesterday, you have seen \u2014 ?\u201d", "\u201cFrom that child \u2014 horrors! There!", "\u201cOn my honor, miss, she says things \u2014 !", "\u201cIt so justifies me!\u201d", "\u201cThe appalling language she applied to me? I can, then!", "\u201cWell, perhaps I ought to also \u2014 since I\u2019ve heard some of it before! Yet I can\u2019t bear it,", "\u201cHow can I stop with her, you mean? Why, just for that: to get her away. Far from this,", "\u201cShe may be different? She may be free?", "\u201cThere\u2019s one thing, of course \u2014 it occurs to me \u2014 to remember. My letter, giving the alarm, will have reached town before you.\u201d", "\u201cYour letter won\u2019t have got there. Your letter never went.\u201d", "\u201cI mean that I saw yesterday, when I came back with Miss Flora, that it wasn\u2019t where you had put it. Later in the evening I had the chance to question Luke, and he declared that he had neither noticed nor touched it.", "\u201cYes, I see that if Miles took it instead he probably will have read it and destroyed it.\u201d", "\u201cIt strikes me that by this time your eyes are open even wider than mine.\u201d", "\u201cI make out now what he must have done at school.", "\u201cI hope then it was to more purpose than in this case! The note, at any rate, that I put on the table yesterday,", "\u201cwill have given him so scant an advantage \u2014 for it contained only the bare demand for an interview \u2014 that he is already much ashamed of having gone so far for so little, and that what he had on his mind last evening was precisely the need of confession.", "\u201cI say, you there \u2014 come in.", "\u201cWell, what are you up to?", "\u201cWhy, of course I heard you. Did you fancy you made no noise? You\u2019re like a troop of cavalry!", "\u201cNot much! I lie awake and think.\u201d", "\u201cWhat in the world, my dear, but you?\u201d", "\u201cAh, the pride I take in your appreciation doesn\u2019t insist on that! I had so far rather you slept.\u201d", "\u201cWell, I think also, you know, of this queer business of ours.\u201d", "\u201cOf what queer business, Miles?\u201d", "\u201cWhy, the way you bring me up. And all the rest!\u201d", "\u201cWhat do you mean by all the rest?\u201d", "\u201cOh, you know, you know!\u201d", "\u201cCertainly you shall go back to school,", "\u201cif it be that that troubles you. But not to the old place \u2014 we must find another, a better. How could I know it did trouble you, this question, when you never told me so, never spoke of it at all?", "\u201cDo you know you\u2019ve never said a word to me about your school \u2014 I mean the old one; never mentioned it in any way?\u201d", "\u201cI thought you wanted to go on as you are.\u201d", "\u201cI don\u2019t \u2014 I don\u2019t. I want to get away.\u201d", "\u201cOh, you know what a boy wants!\u201d", "\u201cAh, you can\u2019t get off with that!\u201d", "\u201cMy dear, I don\u2019t want to get off!\u201d", "\u201cYou can\u2019t, even if you do. You can\u2019t, you can\u2019t!", "\u201cMy uncle must come down, and you must completely settle things.\u201d", "\u201cyou may be sure it will be to take you quite away.\u201d", "\u201cWell, don\u2019t you understand that that\u2019s exactly what I\u2019m working for? You\u2019ll have to tell him \u2014 about the way you\u2019ve let it all drop: you\u2019ll have to tell him a tremendous lot!\u201d", "\u201cAnd how much will you, Miles, have to tell him? There are things he\u2019ll ask you!\u201d", "\u201cVery likely. But what things?\u201d", "\u201cDear little Miles, dear little Miles \u2014 !\u201d", "\u201cIs there nothing \u2014 nothing at all that you want to tell me?\u201d", "\u201cI\u2019ve told you \u2014 I told you this morning.\u201d", "\u201cThat you just want me not to worry you?\u201d", "\u201cI\u2019ve just begun a letter to your uncle,", "\u201cBefore you came back. And before you went away.\u201d", "\u201cDear little Miles, dear little Miles, if you knew how I want to help you! It\u2019s only that, it\u2019s nothing but that, and I\u2019d rather die than give you a pain or do you a wrong \u2014 I\u2019d rather die than hurt a hair of you. Dear little Miles", "\u201cI just want you to help me to save you!", "\u201cTwo hours ago, in the garden", "\u201cFlora saw!\u201d", "\u201cNot a word \u2014 that\u2019s the horror. She kept it to herself! The child of eight, that child!", "\u201cI was there \u2014 I saw with my eyes: saw that she was perfectly aware.\u201d", "\u201cNo \u2014 of her.", "\u201cCame how \u2014 from where?\u201d", "\u201cFrom where they come from! She just appeared and stood there \u2014 but not so near.\u201d", "\u201cOh, for the effect and the feeling, she might have been as close as you!\u201d", "\u201cWas she someone you\u2019ve never seen?\u201d", "\u201cYes. But someone the child has. Someone you have.", "\u201cMy predecessor \u2014 the one who died.\u201d", "\u201cMiss Jessel. You don\u2019t believe me?", "\u201cThen ask Flora \u2014 she\u2019s sure!", "\u201cNo, for God\u2019s sake, don\u2019t! She\u2019ll say she isn\u2019t \u2014 she\u2019ll lie!\u201d", "\u201cBecause I\u2019m clear. Flora doesn\u2019t want me to know.\u201d", "\u201cIt\u2019s only then to spare you.\u201d", "\u201cNo, no \u2014 there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don\u2019t know what I don\u2019t see \u2014 what I don\u2019t fear!\u201d", "\u201cYou mean you\u2019re afraid of seeing her again?\u201d", "\u201cOh, no; that\u2019s nothing \u2014 now!", "\u201cI don\u2019t understand you.\u201d", "\u201cWhy, it\u2019s that the child may keep it up \u2014 and that the child assuredly will \u2014 without my knowing it.\u201d", "\u201cDear, dear \u2014 we must keep our heads! And after all, if she doesn\u2019t mind it \u2014 !", "\u201cLikes such things \u2014 a scrap of an infant!\u201d", "\u201cIsn\u2019t it just a proof of her blessed innocence?", "\u201cOh, we must clutch at that \u2014 we must cling to it! If it isn\u2019t a proof of what you say, it\u2019s a proof of \u2014 God knows what! For the woman\u2019s a horror of horrors.\u201d", "\u201cKnow? By seeing her! By the way she looked.\u201d", "\u201cAt you, do you mean \u2014 so wickedly?\u201d", "\u201cDear me, no \u2014 I could have borne that. She gave me never a glance. She only fixed the child.\u201d", "\u201cAh, with such awful eyes!\u201d", "\u201cGod help us, no. Of something much worse.\u201d", "\u201cWith a determination \u2014 indescribable. With a kind of fury of intention.\u201d", "\u201cThe person was in black, you say?\u201d", "\u201cIn mourning \u2014 rather poor, almost shabby. But \u2014 yes \u2014 with extraordinary beauty.", "\u201cOh, handsome \u2014 very, very,", "\u201cwonderfully handsome. But infamous.\u201d", "\u201cMiss Jessel \u2014 was infamous.", "\u201cThey were both infamous,", "\u201cthe great decency of your not having hitherto spoken; but the time has certainly come to give me the whole thing.", "\u201cI must have it now. Of what did she die? Come, there was something between them.\u201d", "\u201cOh, of their rank, their condition", "\u201cYes \u2014 she was a lady.\u201d", "\u201cI\u2019ve never seen one like him. He did what he wished.\u201d", "\u201cIt must have been also what she wished!\u201d", "\u201cPoor woman \u2014 she paid for it!\u201d", "\u201cNo \u2014 I know nothing. I wanted not to know; I was glad enough I didn\u2019t; and I thanked heaven she was well out of this!\u201d", "\u201cOf her real reason for leaving? Oh, yes \u2014 as to that. She couldn\u2019t have stayed. Fancy it here \u2014 for a governess! And afterward I imagined \u2014 and I still imagine. And what I imagine is dreadful.\u201d", "\u201cNot so dreadful as what I do,", "\u201cWill not my daughter and the handmaid suffice thee?", "\u201cNeeds must I have Zaynab also.", "\u201cKamar, daughter of Azariah the Jew; say me, is Ali of Cairo with you?", "\u201cO thou daughter of a dog! If he be with us, what wilt thou with him? Go down, O maid, and open to her.", "\u201cWhat bringeth thee hither O dog\u2019s daughter?", "\u201cI testify that there is no god but the God and I testify that Mohammed is the Apostle of God.", "\u201cDo men in the Faith of Al-Islam give marriage portions to women or do women dower men?", "\u201cI come and dower myself for thee, bringing thee, as my marriage-portion, my dress together with the rod and charger and chains and the head of my father, the enemy of thee and the foeman of Allah.", "\u201cMeet we to-morrow at the Caliph\u2019s Divan, that I may take thy daughter and the handmaid to wife.", "\u201cThere is no Majesty and there is no Might save in Allah, the Glorious, the Great! Folk\u2019s labour hath waxed sinful and man is active only in fraud!", "\u201cI conjure thee, by Allah, taste of this confection!", "\u201cCome hither, O sweetmeat seller!", "\u201cBoth of these are adulterated.", "\u201cLook at this fashion; how excellent it is! Eat of it and make the like of it.", "\u201cO lads, go and seek for your brother Ali of Cairo.", "\u201cWe found thee lying here drugged but know not who drugged thee.", "\u201c\u2019Twas a certain sweetmeat-seller who drugged me and took the gear from me; but where is he gone?", "\u201cWe have seen nothing of him; but come, rise and go home with us.", "\u201cI was coming hither with it and other matters, including the Jew\u2019s head, when a sweetmeat-seller met me and drugged me with Bhang and took them from me.", "\u201cIf I come across that man of goodies again, I will requite him.", "\u201cIf I know whither the rascal is gone and where to find the knave, I would pay him out. Knowest thou whither he went?", "\u201cWhere am I and who hath laid hands on me?", "\u201cO perfidious wretch, wilt thou play thy pranks on me?", "\u201cHold thy hand for this fellow is become thy kinsman.", "\u201cThis is Ahmad al-Lakit son of Zaynab\u2019s sister.", "\u201cWhy didst thou thus, O Lakit?", "\u201cGo back to thy grandmother and Zurayk, and tell them that I have brought the gear and the Jew\u2019s head and say to them: \u2014 Meet me to-morrow at the Caliph\u2019s Divan, there to receive Zaynab\u2019s dowry.", "\u201cWe have not wasted our pains in rearing thee, O Ali!", "\u201cO Commander of the Faithful, this is Mercury Ali the Egyptian captain of the brave boys of Cairo, and he is the first of my lads.", "\u201cMay thine every enemy be like this one, O Prince of True Believers!", "\u201cI had not thought thou wouldst kill him, for that he was a sorcerer.", "\u201cO Commander of the Faithful, my Lord made me prevail to his slaughter.", "\u201cBe thou my intercessor with Sharper Ali that he take me to wife.", "\u201cI beg of thee to let me stand on thy carpet and eat of thy table;", "\u201cO Ali, hast thou any lads?", "\u201cI have forty lads; but they are in Cairo.", "\u201cSend to Cairo and fetch them hither,", "\u201cBut, O Ali, hast thou a barrack for them?", "\u201cI make him a present of my barrack with all that is therein, O Commander of the Faithful.", "\u201cThy lodging is thine own, O Hasan;", "\u201cO King of the age, be thou my intercessor with Dalilah the Wily that she give me her daughter Zaynab to wife and take the dress and gear of Azariah\u2019s girl in lieu of dower.", "\u201cI have married four maidens and needs must ye come to the wedding.", "\u201cI wish thee O Ali, to tell me all that hath befallen thee from first to last with Dalilah the Wily and Zaynab the Coney-catcher and Zurayk the Fishmonger.", "\u201cI am now in years and ye know my case and the state of the kingdom and its ordinance; and I fear for my subjects after me; for that up to this present I have not been vouchsafed a son.", "\u201cWe will compound thee a somewhat of drugs wherein shall be efficacy, if it please Almighty Allah!", "\u201cNever will I do this; and if thou force me thereto, I will slay myself.", "\u201cShall the like of me send to one of the Kings on a requisition and he accomplish it not?", "\u201cI will on no wise turn back, till I have laid waste King Abd al-Kadir\u2019s dominions and slain his men and plundered his treasures and blotted out his traces!", "\u201cO mighty King, trouble not thyself with aught of this thing", "\u201cAnd what then thinkest thou to do, O my son?", "\u201cI will don a merchant\u2019s habit and cast about how I may win to the Princess and compass my desire of her.", "\u201cDo thou journey with my son, the core of my heart, and help him to win his will and watch over him and guide him with thy sound judgment, for thou standest to him even in my stead.", "\u201cO King\u2019s son, possess thy soul in patience; for the consequence of patience is consolation, and behold, thou art on the way to whatso thou wishest.", "\u201cRejoice, O King\u2019s son, in all good; for see, yonder is the White City, that which thou seekest.", "\"I'll let some of you see about that, my fine fellows.\"", "\"What! Mr Raystoke, sir? Don't be a fool.\"", "\"In ord'nary, Dick, my lad, no; but when smugglers finds themselves up in corners where they can't get away, they turns and fights like rats, and when they fights they bites.\"", "\"You're only a common sailor, Dick, and I'm your officer, but though I speak sharp unto you, I respect you, Dick, for you like that lad.\"", "\"Say, Mester Gurr, sir, which thankful I am to you for speaking so; but you don't really think as he has come to harm?\"", "\"I hope not, Dick; I hope not; but smugglers don't stand at anything sometimes.\"", "\"surely you are not going to tumble over my house again! I do assure you there's nothing here but what you may see.\"", "\"One of our boys is missing. Seen him up here? Boy 'bout seventeen with a red cap.\"", "\"Haven't heard any one talking about him, eh? Come ashore yesterday.\"", "\"that woman knows nothing. If she knew evil had come to the poor lad, her face would tell tales like print. Hi! You, sir,", "\"Look here, my lad, one of our boys is missing. Came ashore yesterday, lad of seventeen in a red cap.\"", "\"I said a lad 'bout seventeen, in a red cap like yours,", "\"Aren't seen no lads with no red caps up here,", "\"because, look here, it may be a serious thing for some of you, if he is not found.\"", "\"I mean to have a turn at that chap, Master Gurr, sir. I feel as if I had him for 'bout quarter hour I could knock something out of him.\"", "\"Nonsense! Come along. Now, my lads, forward!\"", "\"and a man can't be sure. There was nowt to see and nowt to hear, and of course one couldn't smell it, but seems to me as that ugly-looking fisherman chap knows where our Mr Raystoke is. Yah, I hates half-bred uns! If a man's a labourer, let him be a labourer; and if he's a fisherman, let him be a fisherman. Man can't be two things, and it looks queer.\"", "\"A lad, looking like a common sailor, and wearing a red cap.\"", "\"I have seen no one answering to the description here.\"", "\"Beg pardon, sir, but can you, as a gentleman, assure me that he is not here?\"", "\"That's enough, sir; but may I ask you, if you do see or hear anything of such a lad, you will send a messenger off to the cutter?\"", "\"It is hardly right to enlist me in the search for one of your deserters,", "\"Yes, sir, but he is not a deserter; and the fact is, we are afraid the lad has run alongside o' the smugglers, and come to grief.\"", "\"No, no, -- you must be mistaken. A boyish prank. No one about here would injure a boy.\"", "\"Glad you think so well of 'em, sir. But I suppose you'll grant that the people about here would not be above a bit of smuggling?\"", "\"I suppose there is a good deal of smuggling on the coast,", "\"Yes sir, there is, and it will go hard with the people who are caught having any dealings with the smugglers.\"", "\"What would you say, sir, if I were to order my men, in the king's name, to search your place?\"", "\"Want to find that boy. Good day. Now, my lads.\"", "\"how could you let yourself be dragged into these dreadful deeds!\"", "\"No. The only way in which I could allow myself to act was to keep myself in complete ignorance of the going and coming of these people. I might suspect, but I would never satisfy myself by watching; and I can say now honestly, I do not know whether they have still goods lying there or have taken them away.\"", "\"Many of the men engaged in the smuggling are desperate wretches, and if they feared betrayal they would not scruple, I'm afraid, to strike down any one in the way of their escape.\"", "\"Ah, Master Robin, have you eyes for the maids already?\"", "\"This was so sweet a lady, sir, and in some manner I do think she died. And the man shot an arrow, meaning me to see where it fell, since there would be her grave. That is what I think he meant. But then the picture was gone as quickly as it came.\"", "\"Sister Nell, do you hear these marvels? Take your place and let us see what the crystal can show to you. Most worthy conjurer of dreams, take up your wand again: we all are waiting impatiently to know what is in store for us!\"", "\"These things are true that the glass mirror shows, lording,", "\"The crystal cannot lie.\"", "\"have you ever played at archery in that greenwood which your glass showed us so prettily?\"", "\"Like as not, young master, though I am an old man.\"", "\"Remember that the crystal cannot lie. It tells me now that you and I will meet in rivalry, to shoot together for a strange prize -- the freedom of Sherwood!\"", "\"I can be generous, Will o' th' Green,", "\"Keep your secret, for I will not betray you.\"", "\"There is trouble before us. Come, Robin,", "\"What is the tumult and rioting?", "\"Which was denied us in most vile words, lording,", "\"Nay, we refused their request most politely, most noble,", "\"I could not see my boy injured, excellence, for but doing his duty as one of Cumberland's sons. So I did push this fellow.\"", "\"I blush for my fellows of Nottingham. Is this how you play an English game: to force your rivals to lose to you any way? Cumberland has won my purse: the test was fairly set, and fairly were we conquered. Surely we can submit with good grace.\"", "\"'Tis fine for you to talk, old man,", "\"But I wrestled with this fellow and do know that he played unfairly in the second bout. Else had I not gone down at the clutch, as all did see.\"", "\"and it was to you that I gave another purse in consolation! Go your ways ere I cause you to be more soundly whipped than your deserts, which should bring heavy enough punishment, for sure. Come to me, men, here, here!", "\"A Montfichet! A Montfichet!", "\"Now, be silent, on your lives,", "\"Stifle him, Robin, if need be; take his cloth.", "\"Most gentle conjurer, we wish your aid.\"", "\"They will pull down the place about our heads,", "\"A Montfichet! A Montfichet! Gamewell to the rescue!\"", "\"You have done right well, Robin of Locksley, and dearly do I love you for your courage and resource. George Montfichet will never forget this day. Here let us wait until the Sheriff's men come to us. I hear them now, come at last, when all the fighting's done.\"", "\"And mine is Will Stuteley. Shall we be comrades?\"", "\"Right willingly, for between us we have won the battle,", "\"I like you, Will; you are the second Will that I have met and liked within two days; is there a sign in that?\"", "\"A sign that we will be proper friends,", "\"bear us escort so far as the Sheriff's house. It will not be safe for you to stay here now. I would speak with you later, since notice must be taken of this affair. Pray follow us, with mine and my lord Sheriff's men.\"", "\"and he was very willing to help us but a little while since. Let him stay with me and be my squire in the coming tourney.\"", "\"Have your will, child, if the boy also wills it,", "\"Beg me a room of the Sheriff, child, quickly. I do think that my heart is touched with some distemper.\"", "\"my patron is overcome of the heat and commotion. He prays that you will quietly grant him some private chamber wherein he may rest.\"", "\"Ay, and I will send him a leech -- my own man, and a right skilful fellow. Bid your master use this poor house as he would his own.", "\"In the meantime I will see that a proper banquet is served to us within an hour. But who is this fellow plucking at your sleeve? He should be in the kitchen with the rest.\"", "\"He is my esquire, excellency,", "\"'Tis a goblet of good wine that the lording requires to mend him,", "\"'Twas an ugly touch, young Robin. These escapades are not for old Gamewell, lad; his day has come to twilight. Soon 'twill be night for him and time for sleep.\"", "\"But I will do some proper service for you, child. You shall not find me one to lightly forget. Will you forgive me now? I will return to Gamewell soon as I may and there rest for a few days.\"", "\"I'll take you, sir. It will be no disappointment to me. I have seen all that I wish of Nottingham Fair.\"", "\"I knew it, gov'nor -- knew it the minute I heard Jurgens was a cop. Did you make 'em give you my beat?\"", "\"Guess what, gov'nor. The Legals bought Randy's Crusader. Traded him an old job press and a bag of scratch for his reputation.\"", "\"You've got a wife home, muckraker. You don't have to eat this filth.\"", "\"Yeah, the Legals want the Crusader for their propaganda,", "\"New slogans and new uniforms, and none of them mean anything. Here!", "\"My mother's wedding ring. Give it to her -- and if you tell her it came from me, I'll rip out your guts!\"", "\"I got a duplicate key. Yours is in there,", "\"Yeah, I know. Your meal ticket was in danger. Okay, you've done your nightly duty. Now get the hell out of my room, will you?\"", "\"It's a helluva roundabout way of doing things, gov'nor, but if the gees pay for protection any old way, then they're gonna get it!\"", "\"I told you you had a punched meal ticket,", "\"I got a job today -- barmaid, on your beat, where being your wife helps.\"", "\"Go to bed. You look beat. I'll sand these.\"", "\"You all see it. We're going to arrest Wayne. By jingo, they can't say we ain't legal now! Every odd-numbered shield goes from every precinct. Gordon, Isaacs -- you two been talking big about law and order. Here's the warrant. Take it and arrest Wayne!\"", "\"The princess? She sure is.\"", "\"They'll ruin the dome yet. Why can't they stick to knives?\"", "\"Cut speed! Left sharp!", "\"Wayne, you're under arrest!\"", "\"So the bad pennies turn up. You damned fools, you should have stuck. I had big plans for you, Gordon. I've still got them, if you don't insist...\"", "\"Lucky we found a good car to steal,", "\"I'm getting old, cobbers. Once I broke every strong-man record on Earth -- still stand, too. But not now. Senile!\"", "\"When my own granddaughter comes crying for help? When she finally admits she needs her old grandfather?\"", "\"Gov'nor, if you're right, and the plain gees pay my salary, who's paying me to start fighting other cops? Or is it maybe that somebody isn't being exactly honest with the scratch they lift from the gees?\"", "\"That does it, gov'nor. It ain't honest, treating us this way. If the crackle comes from the people, and these gees give everybody a skull cracking, then they're crooks. It ain't honest, and I'm too sick to work. And if that bloody doctor won't agree...\"", "\"Get out of my way, you damned Legal machine!", "\"He hasn't seen it yet, I guess. Here, gov'nor!\"", "\"At his plant. At least he left for it, according to Sheila.\"", "\"You're staying here, Cuddles. You're supposed to be a woman now, remember!\"", "\"The damned fool opened up on the border -- figured he'd circulate to both sections,", "\"We'd better get out a block up and walk. And I hope we ain't too bloody late!\"", "\"Good work, Sergeant. By jinx, when I heard the Municipals were coming, I was scared they'd get him for sure. Crane wants to watch this guy shot in person!\"", "\"If you ever look at my record, you'll find I'm an ex-newspaperman myself. This is a rescue. Tie them up, Izzy.\"", "\"All right, Randy, I guess we're a bunch of refugees heading for the outside, and bloody lucky at that. Proves a man shouldn't have friends.\"", "\"Not to me, Izzy. Right now I can appreciate friends. But you two better get going. I've got some unfinished business to tend to.", "\"Either of you know where I can buy stencils and ink and find some kind of a truck to haul this paper along?\"", "\"Okay, Randy, we'll find them. Gov'nor, you'd better tell my mother I'll be using the old sheets. Go on. You've got the princess to worry about. We'll be along later.\"", "\"Fanatics, crusaders and damned fools!", "\"So will you, now that you've made up with the Mother,", "\"Your meal ticket's ruined, Cuddles, and you made it clear a little while ago just where you stand. Remind me to tell you sometime how much fun it's been.\"", "\"Your mother was good with a soldering iron, wasn't she? You even look human.", "\"You might guess that the cops would be happy to get hold of your wife now, though. Come on, it's a long walk.\"", "\"Going hunting for those damned kids, eh?", "\"Lucky devil! All I got for a guide was an old bum. Okay, luck, Sergeant!\"", "\"Didn't know who it was. Sorry. Ever get that louse you were out for?\"", "\"Things are a mite tough out here, princess. No deliveries. Closed my bar, been living sort of hand to mouth, but not much mouth.", "\"I ain't so bad off. I ate something yesterday. But if you can spare something for the Kid -- Hey, Kid!\"", "\"Shouldn't oughta. You'll need it. Umm.", "\"Kid can't talk. Cop caught him peddling one of Randolph's pamphlets, cut out part of his tongue. But he's all right now. Come on, Kid, hurry it up. We gotta convoy these people.\"", "\"I figured Izzy'd stop by first. Here, sit over there. Not much room, with my stuff and Randolph's, but it beats walking.\"", "\"A man gets tired of being respectable, cobber. And I'm getting old and sentimental about the Chicken Coop.", "\"But not so old that I can't handle a couple of guards that are stubborn about trucks, eh, Izzy?\"", "\"Tell those trained apes of yours to cut the lights, will you, Mother? Somebody must be using the Coop.\"", "\"Dead because a crook had to try his hand on a lock. Years ago, I had a flask of poison gas attached, in case a gang should ever squeeze me out.\"", "\"Dope! And all that other stuff's ammunition!\"", "\"A pigpen. They've ruined the Coop, cobber. Smell that air -- even I can smell it!", "\"Well, it'll give the boys something to do,", "\"When a man gets old, he likes a little comfort, cobber. Nice things around him...\"", "\"I was afraid you'd think of that, Gordon. Look, you never were a reporter -- you ran a column. I've read the stuff you wrote. You killed and maimed with words. But you never dug up news that would help people, or tell them what they didn't suspect all along. And that's what I've got to have.\"", "\"Too bad Security didn't think I was as lousy a reporter as you do!\"", "\"You all right, Bruce? I heard you tossing around.\"", "\"Just making plans for tomorrow.\"", "'Not a single cap off -- not one solitary hurray,", "'What have you been doing to make yourself so unpopular with my loyal Argives?", "'I don't think it's anything to do with me, really,", "'it looks to me, do you know, rather as if your late lamented husband has changed his mind about dying, and is on his way to your arms.'", "'He is coming home. I shall look upon that face, hear that voice, press that hand once again! How excessively annoying!'", "'Well, it's all over with the betrothal after this; don't you think it would be as well to get all the arches, and fireworks, and things out of the way? We shan't want them now, you know.'", "'they will all do for him; he won't know. Ye gods!", "'Must I, too, do for him?'", "'you won't want me any longer, and so, if you will kindly excuse me, I -- I think I'll retire to some quiet spot whither I can drag myself with my broken heart and bleed to death, like a wounded deer, don't you know!'", "'You can do all that just as well here,", "'I wish you to stay. Who knows what may happen?", "'he has come already -- he must not find me unprepared. I will go within.'", "'offspring of Atreus, and sacker of Troy!'", "'there should be four -- a tin cocked-hat box, two camel-hair trunks, and a carpet bag.'", "'Nay, but with bursting hearts would we bid thee thrice hail!'", "'and I should be really distressed if any of you were to burst on my account. Has anybody such a thing as half a drachma about him?'", "'How de do, my love; how de do?", "'The Princess Cassandra of Troy -- my wife, Queen Clytemnestra. They tell me this young lady can prophesy very prettily, my dear,", "'She has kindly consented to stay on a little longer, my love,", "'the climate varied. I used to get very warm fighting sometimes.'", "'I wore it all through the campaign. Your true warrior is no dandy!'", "'We were given to understand you were wounded,", "'yes; I was considerably wounded -- all over the chest and arms. But what cared I?'", "'and, curiously enough, the weapons don't seem to have pierced your coat at all. I observe there are no patches.'", "'I want to look upon the keen flashing blade which has penetrated the inmost recesses of so many of our country's foes. Oh, it won't come out,", "'I sacked the most fashionable quarters myself. I expect my booty will be forwarded -- shortly. Didn't you know Troy was taken?", "'Couldn't you see the beacon I lighted just before I started?'", "'What do you mean by that? How do you know how long it took?", "'I won't trouble you for all these details. Come to the point.'", "'that we have only just seen the beacon flame arrive here at Arachn\u00e6us, after leaping from height to height across lake and plain; so that you, my dearest, must have made the distance with almost equal celerity!'", "\"that Amos get used to being limber and alive. That is change enough from a carved wooden figure. It would only confuse and trouble him to think you do not really belong where you are. So let him be happy. And I shall seal your lips with regard to the secret of the Jewel Tree, for that must be known to no one,", "\"Now tell me what you are to journey after,", "\"Not even to me. Excellent stuff, this,", "\"I got it in India years ago, and this is the last of it. But I hardly imagine I shall need it again. Its use is somewhat drastic, but occasionally wise.\"", "\"of the three things in your shop window that I liked best, two have been explained. Yet the third, which still interests me, seems to have had, so far, no significance. I mean, of course, the rope.\"", "\"the rope. Very well, my boy, since it has come into your mind again, that means that the time has come for you to discover its use. Go and bring it to me.\"", "\"You have heard of the Indian rope trick, Christopher?\"", "\"Yes -- and no, sir,", "\"Indeed? Well, let me tell you, my boy, no one else does either. The rope is made to go up in the air, so stiffly that the fakir -- that is, the Eastern magician -- can climb it. Some claim to have seen the fakirs climb up it and vanish from sight, and the rope disappear after them.\"", "\"A good enough trick, in its way,", "\"but this rope is capable of so much more remarkable possibilities as to throw the Indian rope trick completely in the shade.\"", "\"that, too, you shall learn, but how to use this particular rope to make the most of its -- shall we say? -- qualities.\"", "\"just push that table and the chairs to the wall, there's a good lad, and we shall get the stiffness out of this rope.", "\"for one never knows but that Amos or Becky Boozer might pass by at the crucial moment. What they do not know,", "\"Now Christopher, your attention please,", "\"Imagine that you are in need of a boat, and there is no boat.\"", "\"Climb in it if you like. I have left the two ends of the rope long enough to make oars, if necessary.\"", "\"This is the best yet -- except for Amos. Golly Moses!", "\"Quite so. Now climb out and I will show you some of the other shapes of which it is capable. A ladder,", "\"is almost too simple. We can do that at any time.\"", "\"It will have to be a small elephant,", "\u201cMr. Alexander! I am delighted. Have you been in London long?\u201d", "\u201cLong enough to have seen you more than once. How fine it all is!\u201d", "\u201cI\u2019m glad you think so. I like it. Won\u2019t you join us here?\u201d", "\u201cMiss Burgoyne was just telling us about a donkey-boy she had in Galway last summer,", "\u201cI thought I saw you in MacConnell\u2019s box with Mainhall one evening, but I supposed you had left town before this.\u201d", "\u201cMooning! I see you mooning! You must be the busiest man in the world. Time and success have done well by you, you know. You\u2019re handsomer than ever and you\u2019ve gained a grand manner.\u201d", "\u201cTime and success have been good friends to both of us. Aren\u2019t you tremendously pleased with yourself?\u201d", "\u201cSince when have you been interested in bridges? Or have you learned to be interested in everything? And is that a part of success?\u201d", "\u201cWhy, how absurd! As if I were not always interested!", "\u201cWell, I think we won\u2019t talk about bridges here, at any rate.", "\u201cBut I wonder whether you\u2019d think me impertinent if I asked you to let me come to see you sometime and tell you about them?\u201d", "\u201cWhy should I? Ever so many people come on Sunday afternoons.\u201d", "\u201cNonsense. One of the pleasantest things about success is that it makes people want to look one up, if that\u2019s what you mean. I\u2019m like every one else \u2014 more agreeable to meet when things are going well with me. Don\u2019t you suppose it gives me any pleasure to do something that people like?\u201d", "\u201cDoes it? Oh, how fine it all is, your coming on like this! But I didn\u2019t want you to think it was because of that I wanted to see you.", "\u201cMy dear Mr. Alexander, you have strange delicacies. If you please, that is exactly why you wish to see me. We understand that, do we not?\u201d", "\"Verily he is the son of our Sovran and the seed of King Omar bin al-Nu'uman and it hath reached us that he hath exiled himself from the land.", "\"Needs must I have search made for him in all countries.", "\"I can learn no tidings of him and have hit on no trace of him, nor can any tell me aught of him.", "\"I roam, and roaming hope I to return; * Yet of returning see not how or when: I went for love of one I could not win, * Nor way of 'scaping ills that pressed could ken.\"", "\"'Twere fitting that this man should lay his head to my head and become my comrade in this my strangerhood.\"[FN#7", "\"O thou who farest in sombrest night, draw near to me and tell me thy tale haply thou shalt find me one who will succour thee in thy sufferings.", "\"This one's case is like my case, for I, even I, have wandered twenty days, nor during my wayfare have I seen man or heard voice:", "\"I will make him no answer till day arise.", "\"O thou that callest, if thou be of the Jinn fare in peace and, if thou be man, stay awhile till the day break stark and the night flee with the dark.", "\"O Chief of the Arabs, leave my tenderness of age and tell me why thou wanderest by night in the desert reciting verses. Thou talkest, I see, of my serving thee; who then art thou and what moved thee to talk this wise?", "\"Thy case is like unto my case, save that my evil is more grievous than thine ill; for my cousin is a King's daughter and the dowry of which thou hast spoken would not content her people, nor would they be satisfied with the like of that from me.", "\"Surely thou art a fool or thy wits for excess of passion are gathering wool! How can thy cousin be a King's daughter? Thou hast no sign of royal rank on thee, for thou art but a mendicant.", "\"Woe to thee! Dost thou bandy words with me, O vilest of dogs that be? Turn thee thy back, or I will come down on thee with clack!", "\"By Allah, a wonder! Thou art a boy in years told, but in talk thou art old. These words should come from none but a champion doughty and bold: what wantest thou of justice?", "\"If thou wilt have me thy captive, to wend with thee and serve thee, throw down thine arms and put off thine outer gear and come on and wrestle with me; and whichever of us throw his opponent shall have his will of him and make him his boy.", "\"I think this waste of breath de noteth the nearness of thy death.", "\"Would I had slain him with my weapon!", "\"O thou valiant man, what wilt thou do with me?\"[FN#8", "\"O Champion of the desert lair, do not with me what deed the wicked dare but let me go, by the life of thy cousin, the jewel of the fair!", "\"What wilt thou do with me, O youth, and cavalier of the age and brave of the plain where battles rage?", "\"Did I not tell thee that it was my intent to send thee by the river to thy kin and to thy tribe, that thy heart be not troubled for them nor their hearts be troubled for thee, and lest thou miss thy cousin's bride-feast!", "\"Do not thus, O champion of the time's braves! Let me go and make me one of thy slaves!", "\"I'm estranged fro' my folk and estrangement's long: * Shall I die amid strangers? Ah, would that I kenned! I die, nor my kinsman shall know where I'm slain, * Die in exile nor see the dear face of my friend!\"", "\"Make with me a covenant true and swear me an oath to be a comrade as due and to bear me company wheresoever I may go.", "\"I purpose to repair to Baghdad, thy native town, and abide there, until Allah vouchsafe me the marriage portion.", "\"Up then and to the road! I tarry here.", "\"O my soul, with what face shall I return pauper- poor? Now by Allah, I will not go back empty handed and, if the Almighty please, I will assuredly work my deliverance.", "\"O Allah! Thou who sendest down the dew, and feedest the worm that homes in the stone, I beseech Thee vouchsafe me my livelihood of Thine Omnipotence and the Grace of Thy benevolence!", "\"Verily the like of this stallion[FN#88] is not to be found in our time.", "\"That's sensible. Perhaps you had better get your things ready while I and Mr. Watterly go and arrange with Justice Harkins.\"", "\"I haven't anything, sir, but a hat and cloak to put on. I came away and left everything.\"", "\"I wouldn't want you to bring anything which that scoundrel gave you.", "\"It's settled, Tom. Alida will be Mrs. Holcroft as soon as we can see the justice. Do you think we could persuade him to come here?\"", "\"One thing at a time. Mrs. Holcroft, -- I may as well call you so, for when my friend says he'll do a thing he does it, -- I congratulate you. I think you are well out of your troubles. Since you are to marry my old friend, we must be friends, too,", "\"You were the first friend I found, sir, after -- what happened,", "\"You've taken time enough, certainly, and I guess you've talked more than you have before in a year.\"", "\"Oh, yes, indeed, sir! I don't want to meet strangers -- and -- and -- I'm not very strong yet. I thank you for considering my feelings so kindly.\"", "\"Come, Watterly, the sun is getting low, and we've considerable to do yet before we start home.\"", "\"I'm with you. Now, Alida, you go back quietly and act as if nothing had happened till I send for you. Of course this impatient young groom will hurry back with the justice as fast as possible. Still, we may not find him, or he may be so busy that we shall have to come back for you and take you to his office.\"", "\"Now don't you be nervous or worried. I see you are not strong, and you shall not be taxed any more than I can help. Goodby for a little while.\"", "\"You're in for it now, Jim, sure enough,", "\"Tell her that I say you've been a mighty good friend to me, yet I hope I may never return any favors of the same kind.\"", "\"By jocks! I hope not. I guess it's just as well she was away. She'll think we've acted just like two harum-scarum men, and will be awfully scandalized over your marrying this woman. Don't you feel a little nervous about it?\"", "\"No! When my mind's made up, I don't worry. Nobody else need lie awake for it's my affair.\"", "\"Well, Jim, you know how I feel about it, but I've got to say something and I might as well say it plain.\"", "\"I understand, Tom. We won't come till Mrs. Watterly asks us.\"", "\"No, indeed. Aint you doing your level best as a friend?\"", "\"Well, you know women are so set about these things, and Angy is rather hard on people who don't come up to her mark of respectability. What's more, I suppose you'll find that others will think and act as she does. If you cared about people's opinions I should have been dead against it, but as you feel and are situated, I'm hanged if I don't think she's just the one.\"", "\"If it hadn't been this one, I don't believe it would have been anyone. Here we are,", "\"Oh, bring her here! And I'll invite in some of the boys as witnesses.\"", "\"I'm not afraid of all the witnesses that you could crowd into a ten-acre lot,", "\"but there is no occasion to invite the boys, whoever they are, or anyone else. She doesn't want to be stared at. I was in hopes, Mr. Harkins, that you'd ride up to the almshouse with us and quietly marry us there.\"", "\"Holcroft is my friend, and you know I'm mighty thick with my friends. They count more with me than my wife's relations. Now I want you to do what Holcroft wishes, as a personal favor to me, and the time will come when I can make it up to you.\"", "\"Oh, certainly, Watterly! I didn't understand,", "\"I'll go with you at once. It's but a short job.\"", "\"You can't want anything shorter than this?", "\"'By this act of joining hands you do take each other as husband and wife and solemnly engage in the presence of these witnesses to love and honor and comfort and cherish each other as such so long as you both shall live. Therefore, in accordance with the law of the state of New York I do hereby pronounce you husband and wife.' A sailor couldn't tie a knot quicker than that.\"", "\"Suppose you only read this much: 'By this act of joining hands you do take each other as husband and wife. Therefore, in accordance with the law, etc.' Would that be a legal marriage?\"", "\"Certainly. You'd have to go to a divorce court to get out of that.\"", "\"It's my purpose to keep out of courts of all kinds. I'll thank you to read just that much and no more. I don't want to say anything that isn't exactly true.\"", "\"You see how it is, Ben. Holcroft hasn't known the woman long, and she's a nice woman, too, if she is boarding at my hotel. Holcroft needs a wife -- must have one, in fact, to help run his house and dairy. It wasn't exactly a love match, you know; and he's that kind of a man that a yoke of oxen couldn't draw a word out of him that he didn't mean.\"", "\"And I'll have a little spread that we can be longer at than the ceremony,", "\"You're right, Jim. I didn't think, and one doesn't have much cause to be so sparing of the feelings of such creatures as come here. But she's out of the common run, and I ought to have remembered it. By jocks! You're mighty careful about promising to love, cherish, and obey, and all that, but I guess you'll do a sight more than many who do promise.\"", "\"Of course I'm going to be kind. That's my duty. Give Harkins a hint. Tell him that she's lost her mother. He needn't know when the old lady died, but it will kind of solemnize him.\"", "\"Courage! It will be over in a minute.\"", "\"do you enter into this marriage freely and without compulsion of any kind?\"", "\"I'm not one to break my word. Home and quiet will soon restore you. Answer the justice and tell him the exact truth.\"", "\"I have consented to Mr. Holcroft's wishes with feelings of the deepest gratitude.\"", "\"'By this act of joining hands you do take each other as husband and wife. Therefore, in accordance with the law of the State of New York, I do hereby pronounce you husband and wife.' That's all.\"", "\"I don't think you'll ever be sorry, Alida,", "\"you must all come out now to a little supper, and also remember that it was gotten up in a hurry.\"", "\"you'll want to make some purchases. You know she's only what she wears. How are you off for money?\"", "\"Of course I know it. Will fifty answer?\"", "\"Yes. You're a good friend. I'll return it in a day or two.\"", "\"Return it when you're a mind to. I say, Alida, I want you to take this. Jim Holcroft can't get married and his bride not receive a present from me,", "\"Now see here, Tom, you've done too much for us already.\"", "\"Shut up, Jim Holcroft! Don't you end the day by hurting my feelings! It's perfectly right and proper for me to do this. Goodby, Alida. I don't believe you'll ever be sorry you found your way to my hotel.\"", "\"Chris! Look at that procession going in the big gate! All those pigtailed gentlemen dressed in embroidered coats. I like that blue one with butterflies on it. No, I'd sooner have the black satin one with the dragon in red and yellow!", "\"Or the one with the peacock in green and purple. Which would you sooner have?\"", "\"I like their funny black hats and droopy mustaches. Why don't they look like us, Chris?", "\"Who-all's in the curtained stretcher they're carrying?\"", "\"It's a palanquin, Amos. They carry dignitaries in them.\"", "\"Hate to be a dignitary in all this heat,", "\"Gee! Imagine the weight of those doors!", "\"Take a look, Amos. Those gates are made of bronze, nearly three feet thick! And now they have the gates open, look at the depth of the walls. They're as deep through as a room!\"", "\"We don't know whether those folks got to the Emperor or not. Likely he's in behind a couple more walls, just to be on the safe side.", "\"How are we going past all that many guards and trumpets, Chris? Even if we could tie up a guard or two, how in the world we going to push open gates that heavy?\"", "\"Never heard a sweeter note,", "\"Might be made of silver, 'way they sound.\"", "\"And look, you were right, they are silver trumpets!\"", "\"That color! Yellow is the royal color of China!\"", "\"what has happened here? You all look angry and somewhat a-frighted. What occurred, Ned?", "\"I never saw anything like Osterbridge Hawsey before. He's a dilly!\"", "\"What a fortunate coincidence that I happened by just at this time,", "\"and that I have with me such an excellent ointment.", "\"This will help to stop the bleeding, my boy,", "\"and take away the pain. It hastens the cure,", "\"In an hour you will scarcely know it happened,", "\"I have set you too great a task, my poor Christopher, for you are but a boy.", "\"You are a boy, but what lies before you is a man's task, and no mistake. You cannot in the future allow yourself the luxury of such childish enjoyments as a laugh at Claggett Chew, or his friend!\"", "\"You did. Too bad,", "\"The laughter you could not resist has meant that you came forcibly to Claggett Chew's notice in such a way that you will never be forgotten.", "\"I saw it happening while I was in my study, but could not warn you in time,", "\"So I came down with the ointment for your poisoned wound.\"", "\"Yes. Sometimes Mr. Chew has a way of wiping poison onto the metal tip of his whip. It is a slow poison -- it does not take effect for days or weeks. In fact, so long after his lash that no one attributes the whip cut to the death that finally follows. Never fear,", "\"the ointment I have put on will take care of that too, and your cut will be closed and healed before the day is over. What is unfortunately more lasting,", "\"is Mr. Chew's memory. Well", "\"there's no help for what is done. Use caution in the future, Christopher. That is all I ask.\"", "\"Enjoy yourself the rest of the day, my boy,", "\"But be constantly on the alert and look in all directions. Here,", "\"take these few coins in case you should need them. Now find Amos, and be off with you!\"", "\u201cWell, I think I\u2019m glad Bly agrees with me!\u201d", "\u201cYou would certainly seem to have seen, these twenty-four hours, a good deal more of it than for some time before. I hope,", "\u201cOh, yes, I\u2019ve been ever so far; all round about \u2014 miles and miles away. I\u2019ve never been so free.\u201d", "\u201cNothing could be more charming than the way you take it, for of course if we\u2019re alone together now it\u2019s you that are alone most. But I hope,", "\u201cyou don\u2019t particularly mind!\u201d", "\u201cMy dear child, how can I help minding? Though I\u2019ve renounced all claim to your company \u2014 you\u2019re so beyond me \u2014 I at least greatly enjoy it. What else should I stay on for?\u201d", "\u201cYou stay on just for that?\u201d", "\u201cCertainly. I stay on as your friend and from the tremendous interest I take in you till something can be done for you that may be more worth your while. That needn\u2019t surprise you.", "\u201cDon\u2019t you remember how I told you, when I came and sat on your bed the night of the storm, that there was nothing in the world I wouldn\u2019t do for you?\u201d", "\u201cOnly that, I think, was to get me to do something for you!\u201d", "\u201cIt was partly to get you to do something,", "\u201cBut, you know, you didn\u2019t do it.\u201d", "\u201cThat\u2019s it. Out, straight out. What you have on your mind, you know.\u201d", "\u201cAh, then, is that what you\u2019ve stayed over for?\u201d", "\u201cWell, yes \u2014 I may as well make a clean breast of it, it was precisely for that.\u201d", "\u201cDo you mean now \u2014 here?\u201d", "\u201cThere couldn\u2019t be a better place or time.", "\u201cYou want so to go out again?\u201d", "\u201cI mean I\u2019ll tell you anything you like. You\u2019ll stay on with me, and we shall both be all right, and I will tell you \u2014 I will. But not now.\u201d", "\u201cWell, then, go to Luke, and I\u2019ll wait for what you promise. Only, in return for that, satisfy, before you leave me, one very much smaller request.\u201d", "\u201cYes, a mere fraction of the whole. Tell me", "'If we sleep in this dreadful place,", "'I have a feeling that luck is coming to us.", "'Stay here a moment and I will go and see if I can get food and shelter for the night.", "'I thought you had been killed by robbers!'", "'Oh, just looking round,", "'but though I searched everywhere I could find nothing to eat.'", "'I am very much afraid that it is a robbers", "'No, it isn't; but still, we had better not stay here,", "'especially as there is nothing to eat. Perhaps we shall find another house.'", "'We shall be attacked and killed! It is a robbers", "'Yes, it looks like it; but we can't help that,", "'We have had nothing to eat for hours, and I'", "'and I'll lie down by the side. Don't be alarmed; you can sleep quite safely till the morning.", "'First I'll go out into the forest and see if I can find our road,", "'Yes, if you will promise me two things,", "'first that you will take me home to your country and let me be crowned king instead of your son; and secondly, that you will kill him in case he should try to take the throne from me -- if you will not agree to this I shall kill you.'", "'When he returns, just lie on the bed and say that you have been taken ill, and add that you have dreamed that in a forest, a mile away, there are some beautiful apples. If you could only get some of these you would be well again, but if not you will die.'", "'I have been through the forest and found the road, so we will start directly we have had some breakfast.'", "'Oh, I feel so ill!", "'I could not walk a single step; and there is only one thing that will cure me.'", "'that, a mile away, there is a forest where the most beautiful apples grow, and if I could have some of them I should soon be well again.'", "'Oh! but dreams don't mean anything,", "'There is a magician who lives near here. I'll go to him and ask for a spell to cure you.'", "'My dreams always mean something,", "'If I don't get any apples I shall die.", "'But I really must have some breakfast first; I shall walk all the faster.'", "'If you do not hurry you will find me dead when you come back,", "'It is no use after all, I can't get up there,", "'I may as well go and see what is in there,", "'it's worth something to have a sword like that.", "'What evil fate brought you here?", "'It isn't much use for me to tell you lest my lot becomes yours.'", "'I am not afraid of that. Tell me who you are and what has brought you here,", "'I am a princess from Arabia, and twelve robbers who dwell in this place are fighting among themselves as to which shall have me to wife.'", "'Yes; but you can't do it. To begin with, how could you break the chain I am bound with?'", "'If we should meet the robbers in the passage they would kill us both.'", "'Then you had better shut your eyes, for when you have been sitting there so long it might hurt you to go too suddenly into the daylight. So you are the Princess of Arabia, whose beauty is famous throughout all the world! I, too, am a prince.'", "'Will you not come back to Arabia and marry me, now you have saved my life?", "'Even if my father is living still, he must be old, and after his death you can be king.'", "'I cannot do that -- I must live and die in my own country. But at the end of a year I will follow you and marry you.", "'And if at the end of a year I am still living, I will come. I believe I have heard that at the other side of this forest there is a port from which ships sail to Arabia. Let us hasten there at once.'", "'I wish he were here now. A year is a long time.'", "'That is a strange fellow! If he had gone into the forest the wild beasts must have eaten him unless he has a powerful charm to protect him. If that is so we must get it away from him.'", "'When he comes in say you are well again, and have some food ready for him. Then, whilst he is eating, tell him you dreamed that he was attacked by wild beasts, and ask him how he managed to escape from them. After he has told you I can easily find a way to take his charm from him.'", "'Here are your apples. Now you will soon be well again, and ready to come away with me.'", "'And see, your dinner is all hot for you, eat it up, and then we will start.'", "'I had a horrible dream while you were away. I saw you in a forest full of wild animals, and they were running round you and growling fiercely. How did you manage to escape from them?'", "'One should tell one's mother everything,", "'See, mother, here are a sword and a mail shirt which I found in the first house we entered in the forest, and as long as I carry them nothing can hurt me. That is what saved me from the wild beasts.'", "'It will do you good after all you've gone through, and make you sleep well.'", "'Choose one of two things -- either you must die, or your eyes will be put out, and you will be sent back to the forest.'", "'\"whilst there is life there is hope.\" I will go back to the forest.'", "'Why, here is a poor blind fellow!", "'No doubt that is the work of the robbers. Let us take him to Arabia with us. Would you like to come, my good man?", "'Why, it is the princess's ring!", "'He must have stolen it; but I dare say you will be able to return it to the princess.'", "'It is the ring I gave my betrothed!", "'At last you have come! The year is over, and I thought you were dead. Now we will be married immediately.", "'I cannot have a blind person to succeed me,", "'Do you know that it is Midsummer-eve to-night?'", "'And do you know that part of the garden which is known as the Queen's Bed?'", "'Well, perhaps you don't know this, that whoever has bad eyes, or no eyes at all, should bathe his eye-sockets in the dew that falls there to-night, because then he will get his sight back. Only he must do it between twelve and one o'clock.'", "'Well, go and hang your handkerchief on a bush, and if I find it at once you must believe me,", "'To think that my mother's bed has really given back your sight!", "'there will be plenty to eat and drink, and not much work to do, and if, at the end of a year, you can answer three questions, I'll give you each a sack of gold. Otherwise you must be turned into beasts.'", "'and all you need do is to take care of the house, for I am going away, and shall only return when the year is over.'", "'First I shall ask how long they have been here -- they don't know, the young fools! Secondly I shall ask what shines on the roof of the castle.'", "'The lamp that was stolen by me from the princess as she slept in the garden.'", "'I shall ask where the food and drink they consume every day come from. I steal it from the king's table; but they don't know that.'", "'Now I shall ask my questions,", "'To begin with: How long have you been here?'", "'The lamp that you stole from the princess whilst she was asleep in the garden.", "'Where does the meat and drink you have had here come from?'", "'Has your lordship a piece of money for a poor man?", "'re going to save her again without the magic sword I don't know.'", "'The things are all beautiful!", "'Name your own price, your majesty,", "'Wait till my husband comes back -- men understand such things better; and then, as you are a stranger, he would like to chat with you a little.", "'Come and see all these lovely gold saucepans!", "'Perhaps, now you know me, mother,", "'you had better repent for all the wrong you have done me, or your life will be short.'", "'I could not help it. I was so frightened.'", "\"This man is but one, and ye are an hundred: so if ye would attack him, come out against him, one after one, that it may appear to the King which is the valiant.", "\"By the truth of the Messiah, thou sayest sooth, and none but I shall sally out against him first.", "\"Wait till I go to him and acquaint him with the case and hear what answer he will make. If he consent, 'tis well; but if he refuse, ye shall on no wise come to him, for I and my handmaids and whosoever is in the convent will be his ransom.", "\"How came I to adventure and play with my life by coming to the country of the Greeks?", "\"Indeed their onset, one after one, would be overburdensome to them. Will they not come out against me, ten by ten?", "\"O ye servants of the Messiah, avenge your comrade!", "\"None but the gate-keepers;", "\"Now by the truth of the Messiah, I will not be a niggard of myself for my guest; nor will I abandon him though for this I abide a reproach and a by-word in the land of the Greeks.", "\"Allah bless thee, O Sharrkan! The Cavaliers may well glory in the like of thee.", "\"O lady mine, wherefore didst thou don that coat of mail and bare thy brand?", "\"To guard thee against these caitiffs,\"[FN#20", "\"O Princess, it is not our custom to ask leave of thee for the King's messengers, and especially for the chief of his Knights.", "\"I think ye were minded only to disgrace me and murder my guest;", "\"Of a truth, they deserved even more than that!", "\"By Allah, none shall come at thee, while life is in my bosom! But hast thou patience to bear parting from thy parents and thy people?", "\"Now is my heart at ease; but there remaineth one other condition for thee.", "\"It is that thou return with thy host to thine own country.", "\"O lady mine, my father, King Omar bin al- Nu'uman, sent me to wage war upon thy sire, on account of the treasure he plundered from the King of Constantinople, and amongst the rest three great jewels, noted givers of good fortune.", "\"Praise be to Allah who hath bestowed thee on me and appointed thee to be the cause of my salvation and the salvation of whoso is with me! But 'tis grievous to me to part from thee and I know not what will become of thee after my departure.", "\"Forget not the compact which is between me and thee;", "\"Let us at once leave these lands; for the envoys who came with us are gone to inform the King of our approach, and haply he will hasten to fall on us and take us prisoners.", "\"By the virtue of John and Mary, we have won to our wish! We have been following you by forced marches, night and day, till we forewent you to this place. So dismount and lay down your arms and yield yourselves, that we may grant you your lives.", "\"When the morn shall morrow, we will draw out and defy them, for we are an hundred to their hundred; and we will seek aid against them from the Lord of the Heavens.", "\"Verily this day we did not win our will of these;", "\"At early dawn when the morrow shall morn, we will draw out and challenge them, one after one.", "\"Our foes have determined like ourselves to do their devoir; so up and at them; and lay on load.", "\"Let there be no general engagement betwixt us this day, save by the duello, a champion of yours against a champion of ours.", "\"Ho! who is for smiting? Let no dastard engage me this day nor nidering!", "\"O Sharrkan, champions are not wont to do thus! This is the act of a man accustomed to be beaten by a woman.\"[FN#21", "\"Praise be to Allah for safety and for my reunion with thee, O Queen of the age!", "\"It is the like of you that Kings keep in store for the need-hour.", "\"O thou city filth, by the right of my bonnet, if thou leave not this weeping, I will sell thee to none but a Jew!", "\"I agree with thee to this condition,", "\"There she sitteth; go to her and look at her and speak to her kindly as I enjoined thee.", "\"If she be even as thou saddest, I shall get of the Sultan what I will for her.", "\"Peace be on thee, my little maid! How art thou?", "\"This also was registered in the Book of Destiny.", "\"I believe this one cometh to buy me;", "\"What is her price, for indeed she is noble?", "\"Thou wilt turn me the girl's head with this talk! Why dost thou say that she is noble,[FN#249] while she is of the scum of slave-girls and of the refuse of folk? I will not sell her to thee!", "\"Calm thyself, for I will buy her of thee with these blemishes thou mentionest.", "\"And how much wilt thou give me for her?", "\"Name thy price for her: none should name the son save his sire.", "\"None shall name it but thou thyself.", "\"O Shaykh of the Arabs, I will give thee in ready money, clear of the tax and the Sultan's dues, two hundred gold pieces.", "\"Get up and go thy ways! By Allah, wert thou to offer me two hundred dinars for the bit of camlet she weareth, I would not sell it to thee. And now I will not sell her, but will keep her by me, to pasture the camels and grind my grist.", "\"Come here, thou stinkard! I will not sell thee.", "\"I used to think thee a man of judgment; but, by the right of my bonnet, if thou begone not from me, I will let thee hear what shall not please thee!", "\"O Shaykh of the Arabs, take patience and calm thyself and tell me what clothes she hath with thee?", "\"And what hath the baggage to do with clothes? By Allah, this camlet in which she is wrapped is ample for her.", "\"I will unveil her face and examine her even as folk examine slave-girls whom they think of buying.\"[FN#25", "\"Up and do what thou wilt and Allah keep thy youth! Examine her outside and inside and, if thou wilt, strip off her clothes and look at her when she is naked.", "\"Allah forfend! I will look at naught save her face.\"[FN#25", "\"O my mistress, what is thy name?", "\"Doss thou ask what is my name this day or what it was before this day?", "\"Hast thou then two names: to-day's and yesterday's?", "\"my name in the past was Nuzhat al-Zaman, the Delight of the Age; but my name at this present is Ghussat[FN#252] al-Zaman, the Despight of the Age.", "\"Ay by Allah, O my lord, I have,", "\"but fortune hath parted me and him and he lieth sick in Jerusalem.", "\"Verily, the Badawi spake the truth of her.", "\"And pity one who erst in honour throve, * And now is fallen into sore disgrace. She weeps and bathes her cheeks with railing tears, * And asks 'What cure can meet this fatal case?'\"", "\"By the Almighty, do not leave me with a tyrant who knoweth not Allah the Most High! If I pass this night in his place, I shall kill myself with my own hand: save me from him, so Allah save thee from Gehenna-fire.", "\"O Shaykh of the Arabs, this slave is none of thine affair; so do thou sell her to me for what thou wilt.", "\"and pay me down her price, or I will carry her back to the camp and there set her to feed the camels and gather their dung.\"[FN#25", "\"I will give thee fifty thousand dinars for her.", "\"this is not the capital spent upon her, for she hath eaten with me barley bread to the value of ninety thousand gold pieces.", "\"I have sold her to thee at that price,", "\"I shall be able to buy salt with her.", "\u201cWhat, is it over? Is that all?\u201d", "\u201cHold on! Just a word, gentlemen.", "\u201cYou bet it is! \u2014 the jedge is right!", "\u201cAll right, then \u2014 not a word about any sell. Go along home, and advise everybody to come and see the tragedy.\u201d", "\u201cWalk fast now till you get away from the houses, and then shin for the raft like the dickens was after you!\u201d", "\u201cWell, how\u2019d the old thing pan out this time, duke?\u201d", "\u201cDon\u2019t it s\u2019prise you de way dem kings carries on, Huck?\u201d", "\u201cWell, it don\u2019t, because it\u2019s in the breed. I reckon they\u2019re all alike.\u201d", "\u201cBut, Huck, dese kings o\u2019 ourn is reglar rapscallions; dat\u2019s jist what dey is; dey\u2019s reglar rapscallions.\u201d", "\u201cWell, that\u2019s what I\u2019m a-saying; all kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.\u201d", "\u201cBut dis one do smell so like de nation, Huck.\u201d", "\u201cWell, they all do, Jim. We can\u2019t help the way a king smells; history don\u2019t tell no way.\u201d", "\u201cNow de duke, he\u2019s a tolerble likely man in some ways.\u201d", "\u201cYes, a duke\u2019s different. But not very different. This one\u2019s a middling hard lot for a duke. When he\u2019s drunk, there ain\u2019t no near-sighted man could tell him from a king.\u201d", "\u201cWell, anyways, I doan\u2019 hanker for no mo\u2019 un um, Huck. Dese is all I kin stan\u2019.\u201d", "\u201cIt\u2019s the way I feel, too, Jim. But we\u2019ve got them on our hands, and we got to remember what they are, and make allowances. Sometimes I wish we could hear of a country that\u2019s out of kings.\u201d", "\u201cPo\u2019 little \u2019Lizabeth! po\u2019 little Johnny! it\u2019s mighty hard; I spec\u2019 I ain\u2019t ever gwyne to see you no mo\u2019, no mo\u2019!", "\u201cThe person who wrote the letter is in the antechamber.\u201d", "\u201cTo Monsieur, Monsieur le Baron Pommerci. At his hotel.", "\u201cA coat of black cloth, trowsers of black wool, a silk waistcoat, boots and linen.", "\u201cIn a separate box, a neatly frizzed peruke, green glasses, seals, and two small quills an inch long, wrapped in cotton.", "\u201cIt seems to me impossible that I should not have already had the honor of seeing Monsieur le Baron in society. I think I actually did meet monsieur personally, several years ago, at the house of Madame la Princesse Bagration and in the drawing-rooms of his Lordship the Vicomte Dambray, peer of France.\u201d", "\u201cI know neither Madame Bagration nor M. Dambray,", "\u201cI have never set foot in the house of either of them in my life.\u201d", "\u201cThen it must have been at Chateaubriand\u2019s that I have seen Monsieur! I know Chateaubriand very well. He is very affable. He sometimes says to me: \u2018Th\u00e9nard, my friend . . . won\u2019t you drink a glass of wine with me?\u2019\u201d", "\u201cI have never had the honor of being received by M. de Chateaubriand. Let us cut it short. What do you want?\u201d", "\u201cAt this, Monsieur le Baron. I am an old and weary diplomat. Ancient civilization has thrown me on my own devices. I want to try savages.\u201d", "\u201cI should like to go and establish myself at la Joya. There are three of us. I have my spouse and my young lady; a very beautiful girl. The journey is long and costly. I need a little money.\u201d", "\u201cHas not Monsieur le Baron perused my letter?\u201d", "\u201cSo be it, Monsieur le Baron. I will be precise. I have a secret to sell to you.\u201d", "\u201cYou will see that I am interesting.\u201d", "\u201cMonsieur le Baron, you have in your house a thief and an assassin.\u201d", "\u201cIn my house? no,", "\u201cI am going to tell you, equally for nothing, who he is.\u201d", "\u201cYou know it since I have had the honor of telling you.\u201d", "\u201cI know that secret as well as the others,", "\u201cMonsieur le Baron, say ten thousand francs and I will speak.\u201d", "\u201cI repeat to you that there is nothing which you can tell me. I know what you wish to say to me.\u201d", "\u201cBut I must dine to-day, nevertheless. It is an extraordinary secret, I tell you. Monsieur le Baron, I will speak. I speak. Give me twenty francs.\u201d", "\u201cI know your extraordinary secret, just as I knew Jean Valjean\u2019s name, just as I know your name.\u201d", "\u201cThat is not difficult, Monsieur le Baron. I had the honor to write to you and to tell it to you. Th\u00e9nard.\u201d", "\u201cYou are also Jondrette the workman, Fabantou the comedian, Genflot the poet, Don Alvar\u00e8s the Spaniard, and Mistress Balizard.\u201d", "\u201cAnd you kept a pot-house at Montfermeil.\u201d", "\u201cAnd I tell you that your name is Th\u00e9nardier.\u201d", "\u201cAnd that you are a rascal. Here.\u201d", "\u201cThanks! Pardon me! five hundred francs! Monsieur le Baron!\u201d", "\u201cLet us put ourselves at our ease.\u201d", "\u201cMonsieur le Baron is infallible,", "\u201cMonsieur le Baron, we are on the wrong track.\u201d", "\u201cdo you dispute that? These are facts.\u201d", "\u201cThis is the first: he did not rob M. Madeleine, because it is Jean Valjean himself who was M. Madeleine.\u201d", "\u201cAnd this is the second: he did not assassinate Javert, because the person who killed Javert was Javert.\u201d", "\u201cPolice-agent-Ja-vert-was-found-drowned-un-der-a-boat-of-the-Pont-au- Change.\u201d", "\u201cWell, then this unhappy wretch is an admirable man! the whole of that fortune really belonged to him! he is Madeleine, the providence of a whole countryside! he is Jean Valjean, Javert\u2019s savior! he is a hero! he is a saint!\u201d", "\u201cHe\u2019s not a saint, and he\u2019s not a hero!", "\u201cJean Valjean did not rob Madeleine, but he is a thief. He did not kill Javert, but he is a murderer.\u201d", "\u201cof that miserable theft, committed forty years ago, and expiated, as your own newspapers prove, by a whole life of repentance, of self-abnegation and of virtue?\u201d", "\u201cIt cost me a good deal of trouble to get this one.\u201d", "\u201cMonsieur le Baron, on the 6th of June, 1832, about a year ago, on the day of the insurrection, a man was in the Grand Sewer of Paris, at the point where the sewer enters the Seine, between the Pont des Invalides and the Pont de J\u00e9na.\u201d", "\u201cMonsieur le Baron, I have the strongest of reasons for believing that the assassinated young man was an opulent stranger lured into a trap by Jean Valjean, and the bearer of an enormous sum of money.\u201d", "\u201cThe young man was myself, and here is the coat!", "\u201cAh! Jondrette Th\u00e9nardier, vile rascal! Let this serve you as a lesson, you dealer in second-hand secrets, merchant of mysteries, rummager of the shadows, wretch! Take these five hundred francs and get out of here! Waterloo protects you.\u201d", "\u201cYes, assassin! You there saved the life of a Colonel. . .\u201d", "\u201cCome! come quick! Let us go. Basque, a carriage! Cosette, come. Ah! My God! It was he who saved my life! Let us not lose a minute! Put on your shawl.\u201d", "\u201cAh! Cosette! I am an unhappy wretch!", "\u201cRue de l\u2019Homme Arm\u00e9, Number 7.\u201d", "\u201cRue de l\u2019Homme Arm\u00e9, I did not dare to speak to you of that. We are going to see M. Jean.\u201d", "\"I am a member of the Mirabelle's crew!\"", "\"Why -- that's the ship in the bottle!\"", "\"The model of it's in a bottle right enough, since it's meself that made it, the last trip home from the Chiny Seas.\"", "\"How in the world could you get it inside?", "\"Ah, 'tis a trick and a tedious thing, no mistaking, but there's time and to spare for it, coming home from China.\"", "\"China? You've been there? What's it like?", "\"That's a tale for another time, my boy, for there's much telling there. You wanted the story of Becky's fine hat.\"", "\"Yes -- yes!", "\"Bein' a member of the Mirabelle and all, means I see quite a bit of this port when we're home.", "\"An' seein' as how Mistress Becky and me are fast friends, well -- she's told me a thing or two that not everyone knows.\"", "\"now a hat of that sort costs many a shilling, and Becky worked and saved for that bonnet for over a year.", "\"If you tell what I tell ye, Chris lad,", "\"I shall get even with ye, I swear I will! For I would never want to hurt the feelin's of Becky Boozer, on my oath.\"", "\"I'll not tell, sir. Not to anyone,", "\"It seems at long last she paid for that bonnet, and decided to wear it to the spectacle, that very afternoon.\"", "\"What's that?\"", "\"You are a country boy! Why -- the spectacle, where the players are. The theatre -- what else?\"", "\"Now as you seem not acquainted with the theatre, me lad, let me tell you that we give it here in any hall standing vacant, and out of doors in fair weather, and we set the benches in rows for those that pay for seats.\"", "\"'Twas asked with rare politeness, anyone would agree to that.", "\"And would you believe it, my lad -- no.", "\"Mistress Rebecca Boozer was that proud -- that proud", "\"that not for the world would she remove her bonnet. Dear me no! She tossed her head again, feeling all them plumes a-tossin' too, and sat up straighter than before. An' she a tall woman.\"", "\"Well, little did she dream, our Becky Boozer. For when she tossed her head the second time and made no motion to remove her hat, the gentleman bent toward her, and -- no doubt, his words were for her alone. And this is what he said.\"", "\"I have. You'll not be able to heave it off, that I promise you. That hat is there for good and all. Mistress Boozer will doubtless be buried in that bonnet.", "\"Does she -- does she sleep in it?", "\"You and Cilley -- you're two of a kind, that is plain to be seen!\"", "\"You are wanted by the master in his study, so look sharp! It's down the passage and to your right,", "\"No wonder the boys couldn't find where you'd stashed him, Mother. Must be a bloody big false section you've got in that trick mattress of yours!\"", "\"Big enough for him and for Trench, Izzy,", "\"I told you I had to do it. I take care of the side that pays my cut, and the bloody administration pulled the plug on my beat twice. Only honest thing to do was to join the Legals.\"", "\"And get your rating upped to a lieutenant,", "\"Like I say, honesty pays, Mother -- when you know how to collect. Hell, I figured Bruce would do the same. He's a right gee.\"", "\"Yeah, when he forgets he's a machine. How about a game of shanks?\"", "\"Hello, Bruce. You okay?\"", "\"How long have I been like this?\"", "\"Fifteen hours, I guess. It's almost midnight.", "\"Are you hungry? There's some canned soup -- I took the money from your pocket. Or coffee...\"", "\"You were anxious enough to pick the lock and get out.\"", "\"I didn't pick it -- you forgot to lock it.\"", "\"Okay, my mistake. But why the change of heart?\"", "\"When I saw that Legal cop ready to take you, I had to go running out to save you. Because I don't have the iron guts to starve like a Martian!\"", "\"I'll stick to my chances. I don't have any others now.", "\"You get things done. Now that you've got a wife to support, you'll support her. Just remember, it was your idea.\"", "\"I've got a wife who's holding onto a notebook that belongs to me, then. Where is it?\"", "\"I'm keeping the notebook for insurance. Blackmail, Bruce. You should understand that! And you won't find it, so don't bother looking...", "\"I've got to get information to Trench -- and in private!\"", "\"Commissioner Trench, Gordon. It seems Arliss decided to get rid of Mayor Wayne, but didn't count on Wayne's spies being better than his. So Trench got promoted -- and I got his job for loyal service in helping the Force recruit. My boys always wanted to be cops, you know.\"", "\"I sent Ape and Mullins out to get in touch with you,", "\"But I guess they didn't reach you before you left.\"", "\"They hadn't arrived when I left the house,", "\"Captain Bruce Gordon, with two prisoners -- bodyguards of Captain Jurgens,", "\"Don't -- don't cry out; I did not come to frighten you.\"", "\"I am from the cutter lying off the coast. You saw me and spoke to me to-day when the dog came at me.\"", "\"Can you not believe me? I did not come to frighten you; you frightened me.\"", "\"Then, why are you here? How dare you break into our house. Oh, I know! I know!\"", "\"I was obliged to come. It was by accident I came into this room. I was trying to find out about the smugglers.\"", "\"And -- and -- you have not found out anything?", "\"What am I to say? I am on duty. Yes, I have found out all I wanted to know.\"", "\"I wish you would believe me, that I am in as great trouble about it as you are.\"", "\"But your men. They are close here, then, and they frightened these people away.\"", "\"That my father, Sir Risdon Graeme, has smuggled goods here?\"", "\"You shall not tell. It is not my father's doing. He could not help it. He hates the smugglers. You shall not tell. Pray, pray, say you will not!\"", "\"and I felt sorry for her as one might for one's sister at home, and hung back from getting her people into trouble. Of all the fierce little tartars! Oh, it's beyond anything! Why, she has locked me up!\"", "\"It all comes of dressing up in this stupid way, like a rough fisher-lad. If I had been in uniform, she would not have dared.\"", "\"I'm not going to put up with this. I'll soon rattle some one up;", "\"I don't believe they would kill me, but they would knock me about.\"", "\u201cthat after this you won\u2019t owe me the least consideration. But we sail on Tuesday. I saw that interview in the paper yesterday, telling where you were, and I thought I had to see you. That\u2019s all. Good-night; I\u2019m going now.", "\u201cSit down, Hilda; you\u2019re wet through. Let me take off your coat \u2014 and your boots; they\u2019re oozing water.", "\u201cHere, put your feet on this stool. You don\u2019t mean to say you walked down \u2014 and without overshoes!\u201d", "\u201cDidn\u2019t \u2014 didn\u2019t you mean even to say goodby to me, Bartley? Did you mean just to \u2014 quit me?", "\u201cI came to tell you that I\u2019m willing to do as you asked me. But it\u2019s no use talking about that now. Give me my things, please.", "\u201cOh, Bartley! Did you write to me? Why didn\u2019t you telephone me to let me know that you had? Then I wouldn\u2019t have come.\u201d", "\u201cI didn\u2019t know it before, Hilda, on my honor I didn\u2019t, but I believe it was because, deep down in me somewhere, I was hoping I might drive you to do just this. I\u2019ve watched that door all day. I\u2019ve jumped up if the fire crackled. I think I have felt that you were coming.", "\u201cI felt that you were feeling that. But when I came, I thought I had been mistaken.\u201d", "\u201cNo, you weren\u2019t mistaken. I\u2019ve been up in Canada with my bridge, and I arranged not to come to New York until after you had gone. Then, when your manager added two more weeks, I was already committed.", "\u201cThat\u2019s what I wanted to see you about, Bartley. I\u2019m going to do what you asked me to do when you were in London. Only I\u2019ll do it more completely. I\u2019m going to marry.\u201d", "\u201cOh, it doesn\u2019t matter much! One of them. Only not Mac. I\u2019m too fond of him.\u201d", "\u201cYes, I know very well. I\u2019ve thought about it a great deal, and I\u2019ve quite decided. I never used to understand how women did things like that, but I know now. It\u2019s because they can\u2019t be at the mercy of the man they love any longer.\u201d", "\u201cSo it\u2019s better to be at the mercy of a man you don\u2019t love?\u201d", "\u201cUnder such circumstances, infinitely!\u201d", "\u201cHilda you\u2019d better think a while longer before you do that. I don\u2019t know what I ought to say, but I don\u2019t believe you\u2019d be happy; truly I don\u2019t. Aren\u2019t you trying to frighten me?\u201d", "\u201cNo; I\u2019m telling you what I\u2019ve made up my mind to do. I suppose I would better do it without telling you. But afterward I shan\u2019t have an opportunity to explain, for I shan\u2019t be seeing you again.\u201d", "\u201cI wouldn\u2019t be so much alarmed if I didn\u2019t know how utterly reckless you can be. Don\u2019t do anything like that rashly.", "\u201cYou wouldn\u2019t be happy. You are not that kind of woman. I\u2019d never have another hour\u2019s peace if I helped to make you do a thing like that.", "\u201cYou see, you are different, Hilda. Don\u2019t you know you are?", "\u201cSome women can do that sort of thing, but you \u2014 you can love as queens did, in the old time.\u201d", "\u201cOnly one, Bartley. Only one. And he threw it back at me a second time.\u201d", "\u201cTry him again, Hilda. Try him once again.\u201d", "\"Yes, those were the names they used then. So, friends, I am forearmed against you, for I will step with heavy foot in your concerns by-and-by -- when I do find Master Will o' th' Green! Roger -- and Micah -- I'll not forget.\"", "\"I am all agog to warn Will o' th' Green -- for he has been a stout friend to me.\"", "\"You are not far from the Barnesdale road. In sooth, as I followed your tracks, I wondered how you had come so far within a very short space. You are now within touch of Gamewell.\"", "\"Could we but find that underground path whereby cousin Geoffrey came and went from the pleasance, old friend,", "\"why -- we might play the Yellow Lady to purpose!\"", "\"I will undertake to bring you to the forest entrance of Master Will's castle within a score of minutes.\"", "\"Lead us, Warrenton -- and I prithee be better guide than you have been so far in this adventure.\"", "\"Our arrows must do duty for us, then,", "\"Fit shafts across your bows, friends, and aim with all your hearts in it. Let not those of either side see us. 'Tis thus that our services shall be of most value to Master Will.\"", "\"and soon as the soldiers issue at the charge shoot down upon your mark.\"", "\"See, lording -- quick! Look how some of the enemy do creep about Master Will; they will strike him and his fellows from the rear!\"", "\"The two who lead them are not uniformed -- like as not they are those treacherous ones whom I have such cause to remember.\"", "\"Speedily, instantly -- or they will end this fight against us. Now!\"", "\"Locksley! A Locksley! To the rescue!\"", "\"Be not robbers to any who are poor and who are good fellows -- having only their poverty against them. Be kind to those who help you, but exact toll as heretofore of all who come through the greenwood. The rich to pay in money, and blood -- if it be necessary.\"", "\"with your brave men and you -- if so be I may. Have I won now the freedom of the forest?", "\"Upon you, Robin of Locksley, do I bestow, with this my last breath, full freedom of the forests of England,", "\"We will not forget your hospitality, friends all,", "'I suppose you -- you found him all right the other evening, Colonel?", "'we've not heard anything of him since: he's -- he's run off!'", "'Gone, Mr. Weatherhead; gone without a word!", "'it has completely knocked me over. Haven't been so cut up for years -- the ungrateful rascal!'", "'don't talk like that; perhaps Bingo couldn't help it -- perhaps some one has s-s-shot him!'", "'By heaven! if I thought there was a villain on earth capable of shooting that poor inoffensive dog, I'd -- -- Why should they shoot him, Lilian? Tell me that! I -- I hope you won't let me hear you talk like that again. You don't think he's shot, eh, Weatherhead?'", "'If he were dead I should know it somehow -- I'", "'Lilian -- Miss Roseblade, something has come between us lately: you will tell me what that something is, won't you?'", "'Then I'll tell you: it -- it's Bingo!'", "'You never l-loved him when he was here,", "'I did not love Bingo. Bingo didn't love me, Lilian; he was always looking out for a chance of nipping me somewhere. Surely you won't quarrel with me for that!'", "'only, why do you pretend to be so fond of him now, and so anxious to get him back again? Uncle John believes you, but I don't. I can see quite well that you wouldn't be glad to find him. You could find him easily if you wanted to!'", "'You know that isn't just, Lilian,", "'But only tell me what you want me to do?'", "'But suppose I can't -- suppose he's out of the country, or -- dead, what then, Lilian?'", "'but I don't believe he is out of the country or dead. And while I see you pretending to Uncle that you cared awfully about him, and going on doing nothing at all, it makes me think you'r", "'Yes, yes -- that's the dog I want, that -- that's Bingo!'", "'isself out about seeing you again,", "'Oh, he's not exactly my dog, you see,", "'here's one of my cards; will that do for you?'", "'if I part with him to you, I must be cleared of all risks. I can't afford to get into trouble about no mistakes. Unless you likes to leave him for a day or two, you must pay accordin", "'Will you believe now that I am sincere?", "'re going to bring the dog to make friends. Oh, and I met Frank Travers; he's back from circuit again now, so I asked him in too, to meet them!'", "'Mr. Weatherhead -- Algernon! Can you ever forgive me for being so cruel and unjust to you?", "'I can't tell you all that dog is to me, and how I missed the poor beast. I'd quite given up all hope of ever seeing him again, and all the time there was Weatherhead, Mr. Travers, quietly searching all London till he found him! I shan't forget it. It shows a really kind feeling.'", "'He's been sadly out of spirits all day,", "'he hasn't bitten one of the tradespeople.'", "'Oh, he's all right, the rascal!", "'he'll be after the cats again as well as ever in a day or two.'", "'Algy, you haven't tried the air-gun on them again lately, have you? They'r", "'an air-gun for cats, ha, ha! Make good bags, eh, Weatherhead?", "'Oh, Algy is an excellent shot -- quite a sportsman,", "'I remember, oh, long ago, when we lived at Hammersmith, he had a pistol, and he used to strew crumbs in the garden for the sparrows, and shoot at them out of the pantry window; he frequently hit one.'", "'don't go rolling over our Bingo by mistake, you know, Weatherhead, my boy. Not but what you've a sort of right after this -- only don't. I wouldn't go through it all twice for anything.'", "'If you really won't take any more wine,", "'suppose we all go out and have our coffee on the lawn? It -- it will be cooler there.", "\"That be the Black Vulture, the pirate ship. No vessel is safe near the Black Vulture! What a God's mercy that all of us, and the Mirabelle, are out of sight, for the men aboard the Vulture know no pity, lads!\"", "\"Ned, don't most ships just paint the name on the side?\"", "\"Then isn't it unusual to have letters carved of wood and gilded, on the side of a ship?", "\"What're ye aimin' at now, me lad, eh?", "\"Just tell me what ships you know whose name is not painted on but set in carved letters, Ned,", "\"Let me see, now. There's the Southerner -- no, that's painted on, or the Priscilla Drew -- no; that's painted too.", "\"Come, boys, what ship has carved letters for her name, not painted ones? Where's a better memory nor mine?\"", "\"There's only one ship that ever I did see with carven letters on her side, and that was Chew's ship, the Venture.\"", "\"Look then, for there's your same ship! The Venture and the Vulture are one and the same! Here -- take my glass,", "\"Have we then been harboring the like of him at home?\"", "\"Aye -- to let him go free to scuttle the next fine ship, take all her cargo, and leave her valiant men to drown!\"", "\"How-now, men, be still! We are here to see what may take place, but if your voices should carry, as well they may, over the water, we should have little chance of it. Do you be still and watchful.\"", "\"Look! Around the point! Here comes another ship -- looks like that was what the ol' blackbird was a-waiting for!\"", "\"there's to be a fight for sartin. I can see the flash of light on the swords and axes!\"", "\"We have seen what we had to see, and many is the witness now against Claggett Chew and all his company!\"", "\"Aye! Aye! That we are! We'll bear witness to such villainy -- they should all hang for it!", "\"Then let us go back to our own ship, for the dreaded Vulture is not yet gone, and unarmed as we too are, what chance have we against cannon balls and armed men?\"", "\"'tis my advice you had best return with us now, or you might be missed by one or another of the men, and they have much time to think. You shall do what has been set for you to do -- we shall stay here another day to take on water and fresh fruits.\"", "\"It will not be a moment too soon for me until I see you safe and sound on board again, my lad,", "\"for I like you well and would have no smallest harm come to you.\"", "\u201cthere isn't anybody to eat anything, Davie; you and Joel can get something out of the cupboard.\u201d", "\u201cCan we get whatever we've a mind to, ma?", "\u201cAnd those eyes of yours have been used too much; what has she been doing, ma'am?", "\u201cand everything; Polly does everything, sir.\u201d", "\u201cwell, she won't again in one spell; her eyes are very bad.\u201d", "\u201cDon't make my Polly sick! oh! please don't!\u201d", "\u201cWe're going to make Polly well, little girl; so that she can see splendidly.\u201d", "\u201cwe'll try hard; and you mustn't cry; 'cause then Polly'll cry, and that will make her eyes very bad; very bad indeed,", "\u201cIf 'twas anythin' but my eyes, mammy, I could stand it,", "\u201cand who'll do all the work now?\u201d", "\u201cto set by you a spell; what's the matter?", "\u201cthe same as Ben's got; and Phronsie; the measles.\u201d", "\u201cwell, that's bad; and Ben's away, you say.\u201d", "\u201cMeasles! he's got the measles too,", "\u201cthat's what Polly said; and she's got 'em bad. It's her eyes,", "\u201cwell, I've got a receet that cousin Samanthy's folks had when John's children had 'em; and I'll run right along home and get it,", "\u201cthank you, Mrs. Bascom; but Dr. Fisher's been here; and he put something on Polly's eyes; and he said it mustn't be touched.\u201d", "\u201cI've got some peppermints to home; I forgot to bring 'em.\u201d", "\u201cThere now, you take these home; you may have some, but be sure you give the most to the sick ones; and Polly -- let Polly have the biggest.\u201d", "\u201ctwas peppermints, real peppermints;", "\u201cshe gave me lots for all of us; have another, Polly?\u201d", "\u201cnot yet; you put two on my pillow where I can reach 'em; and then you keep the rest, Joel.\u201d", "\u201ca red one, Phronsie; yes, you may have two. Now come on, Dave; we'll have the rest out by the wood-pile.\u201d", "\u201coh! I'm so glad! is Miss Jerushy with her?", "\u201cwhy, it's the parson himself! Deary! how we look!\u201d", "\u201cuntil this morning -- can we see them?\u201d", "\u201cBen's upstairs; and Polly and Phronsie are in here.\u201d", "\u201cgo up and see Ben first, while I will visit the little girls?\u201d", "\u201cI've come to see my little chicken now!\u201d", "\u201cbut it's for you to bear patiently, Polly -- what do you suppose the chicks were doing when I came away?", "\u201cWell, they were all fighting over a grasshopper -- yes, ten of them.\u201d", "\u201cWell, he looked as much like winning as any of them,", "\u201cshe's a parson's wife, I say!\u201d", "\u201cthis is the little girl who came to see me when I was sick.\u201d", "\u201cI see I shall have to slip a book into my pocket, and read for those poor eyes.\u201d", "\u201cDoes he? well, by that time, my little girl, I guess Ben will be down-stairs; he's all right, Polly; don't you worry about him -- and I'll sit in the kitchen, by the bedroom door, and you can hear nicely.\u201d", "\u201cI know she's -- and there isn't any use keeping it from me,", "\u201cshe's going to be stone-blind!\u201d", "\u201cyour little girl will not be blind; I tell you the truth; but it will take some time to make her eyes quite strong -- time, and rest. She has strained them in some way, but she will come out of it.\u201d", "\u201cand thank you, sir -- I can't ever thank you -- for -- for -- if Polly was blind, we might as well give up!\u201d", "\u201cOh, I want on my very best shoes,", "\u201cOh, no, Phronsie; you must keep them nice,", "\u201cyou can't wear 'em every-day, you know.\u201d", "\u201cWell, and then you'll want 'em on again tomorrow,", "\u201cnever, no more to-morrow, if I can have 'em to-day; please, mammy dear!\u201d", "\u201cMy own, very own shoes! whole mine!", "\u201cnew shoes! I declare!\u201d", "\u201cbeautiful red tops, aren't they?\u201d", "\u201cOh, no, she don't have anything, Polly don't.\u201d", "\u201cAnd what does Polly want most of all -- do you know? see if you can tell me.", "\u201cyou're the girl for me! to think you know! so, what is it?\u201d", "\u201cit won't burn; and sometimes Polly cries, she does, when she's all alone -- and I see her.\u201d", "\u201cthat's too bad; that is! and then what does she do?\u201d", "\u201cand so does Polly too, with paper; and then it all tumbles out quick; oh! just as quick!", "\u201cwe'll lookout for to-morrow, then.\u201d", "\u201csince dinnertime! If Ben were only well, to talk to me.\u201d", "\u201cyou shouldn't have told; he wanted to surprise Polly.\u201d", "\u201cmammy, can't I take off this horrid bandage, and see him?\u201d", "\u201cnot for the world, Polly! Dr. Fisher'd have our ears off!\u201d", "\u201cnow we're all right; and say, Polly, you're a brick!\u201d", "\u201cMammy told me not to say that the other day,", "\u201cyou're so comfortable together, and Phronsie don't want me now, I'll go to the store; I must get some more work if Mr. Atkins'll give it to me.\u201d", "\u201cI'll be all right now, mammy, that Ben's here,", "\u201cso you needn't worry about us.\u201d", "\u201cto be sitting still, and telling stories in the daytime?\u201d", "\u201cWell; once upon a time,", "\u201chowever do you think of such nice things!\u201d", "\u201cI've had time enough to think, the last week,", "\u201cWhy, you said Tommy heard a noise,", "\u201cand he thought it was a bear.\u201d", "\u201cyou can make anything true.\u201d", "\u201cthat'll spoil it; but make it a big bear, do Ben, and have him bite him somewhere, and most kill him.\u201d", "\u201cwe've had a bear! a real, live bear, we have! Ben made him!\u201d", "\u201cit does seem so good to be all together again!\u201d"]