8/16 P'raps there beant no two words to ditto 'em. He looked for all the world like a different man when he seed I wasn't a mean uncircumcised colonist. Shall I have de honour to ride with you a little way in your carriage ?' "'As for the matter of that,' sais I, 'Mountsheer Prince, the honour is all the other way,' for I can be as civil as any man, if he sets out to act pretty and do the thing genteel. I have hearn in my time, a good many men speak French, but I never see the man yet, that could hold a candle to _him_. Oh, it was like lightnin', jist one long endurin' streak; it seemed all one sentence and one word. |