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The Attache

CHAPTER VI
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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.
"'Very glad to see you, Mr.Yankee,' said he, 'very glad indeed.

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.
"With that he jumped right in, and then he said somethin' in French to the officers; some order or another, I suppose, about comin on and fetchin' his hoss with them.

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.


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