"None of your contimptimous photographs of the lady.
Sure," he says, "it's wid great discomposure I'm taken to be treatin'
so the iligint buttons an' canned-tomato clothes enclosin'," he says,
"the milithary an' internal digestion of the husband of yourself," he
says, "as foine a lady, an' that educated, as me eyes iver beheld.
'Tis me impulses," he says, "'tis me warm an' hearty nature. But your
ladyship won't be allowin' a triflin' incident to interfere wid
enjoyin' the exhibition by me Japanese frinds of the mystherious art
of ancient Asia, an' me that proud of your ladyship's approvin'!"
"What can they do?" she says, looking interested, while the three
Japanese bowed in a limber manner, and smiled thin and mystical
Asiatic smiles.
"Oh, hivins!" said Flannagan. "Oh, that I might see thim again for
the first time, in the bloom of me innocence of marvels! For a
thousand years by the imerald seas of the Orient," he says,--and then
one of them bent backward, and brought his head up between his legs,
and smiled; and the purple dress fell against the wall with pleasure
and surprise.
"Come after me," she says, opening a door in the corridor,
"heretofore the arrival of my pig husband.
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