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Traders, shipowners, captains of vessels, skippers, and master mariners from Europe and America, naval officers from every country, and at their heels the various national governments on these two continents, were all extremely disturbed by the business.
"Did master summon me?" he said, entering.
"As master wishes," Conseil replied serenely.
Pack as much into my trunk as you can, my traveling kit, my suits, shirts, and socks, don't bother counting, just squeeze it all in--and hurry!""What about master's collections?"
The archaeotherium, hyracotherium, oreodonts, cheiropotamus, and master's other fossil skeletons?"
"What about master's live babirusa?"
"Whatever detour master wishes."
"As master thinks best," Conseil replied placidly.
"What master does, I'll do," Conseil replied.
This is one of those voyages from which people don't always come back!""As master wishes."
"With all due respect to master," Conseil replied, "as comfortable as a hermit crab inside the shell of a whelk."
I stared; I stared until I nearly went blind from a worn-out retina, while Conseil, as stoic as ever, kept repeating to me in a calm tone:"If master's eyes would kindly stop bulging, master will see farther!"
"Here's your last chance to pocket that $2,000.00!""If master will permit my saying so," Conseil replied, "I never expected to win that prize, and the Union government could have promised $100,000.00
Six months ago we could have been back in France--""In master's little apartment," Conseil answered.
"In master's museum!
And by now I would have classified master's fossils.
And master's babirusa would be ensconced in its cage at the zoo in the Botanical Gardens, and it would have attracted every curiosity seeker in town!""Quite so, Conseil, and what's more, I imagine that people will soon be poking fun at us!""To be sure," Conseil replied serenely, "I do think they'll have fun at master's expense.
"Well then, it will serve master right!""How true!""When one has the honor of being an expert as master is, one mustn't lay himself open to--"Conseil didn't have time to complete the compliment.
"Conseil," I said to my gallant servant, now at my side, "you realize that we'll probably blow ourselves skyhigh?""As master wishes!"
I'm a good swimmer, without claiming to equal such other authors as Byron and Edgar Allan Poe, who were master divers, and I didn't lose my head on the way down.
Suddenly my clothes were seized by energetic hands, I felt myself pulled abruptly back to the surface of the sea, and yes, I heard these words pronounced in my ear:"If master would oblige me by leaning on my shoulder, master will swim with much greater ease."
"You!""Myself," Conseil replied, "and at master's command."
But being in master's employ, I followed master."
"I think master had best not depend on it to any great extent!""What are you saying?""I'm saying that just as I jumped overboard, I heard the men at the helm shout, 'Our propeller and rudder are smashed!' ""Smashed?"
"Master will allow me to make an incision," he said.
"Leave master behind?" he replied.
"Did master ring for me?"Conseil replied.
"Master must learn patience," said the emotionless Conseil.
"Still, master should tell our story," Conseil said to me.
Thoroughly baffled after vainly exhausting our philological resources, I no longer knew what tactic to pursue, when Conseil told me:"If master will authorize me, I'll tell the whole business in German."
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