Backsheesh Or Life And Adventures in the Orient With Descriptive And Humor
Backsheesh Or Life And Adventures in the Orient With Descriptive And Humor
Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
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He weighed two hundred and thirty pounds, avoirdupois, net, before breakfast, and a great deal more after a square meal. Then came my slender frame of six feet one, with correspond- ing breadth of beam and depth of hold. 262 INTERVIEWING THE MANAGER. Gustave was as tall as I but not equal to me in diameter. He happened, however, to be wearing one of my overcoats so that he bulged very respectably. Charley and the "Doubter" were in the rear. They were fair to middling in size but the manager did...n't see them, his eyes be- ing wholly filled with the foremost trio, and if he had been a young widow on a hunt for a husband he couldn't have watched us more eagerly. " Ah, Mon Dieit, Mon Dicu f continued the manager ; " we can never carry this jDarty on single tickets. And where is the sixth ?" 'mon DIEU ! IS THIS THE PARTY FOR DAMASCUS?" " Madame is at the hotel, " I replied, " she is so small that we call her the baby. You should see her. Elle est tres petite, tres jolie, et ireschai'mante. " My endeavor to divert his attention by an appeal to a French- man's admiration for a pretty woman (many persons not of French birth are troubled the same way) was of no avail.
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