`` I jeter myself into the lake . '' `` Do n't be foolish ; I 'm dull to-day , and want to be cheered up ; suicide is n't a pleasant subject . '' `` Good ! See here , then -- a little plaisanterie -- what you call joke . Can you will to see it ? '' and he laid a little pink cocked-hat note on her lap , looking like a mischievous boy as he did so . '' ` Mon Casimer Teblinski ; ' I see no joke ; '' and Amy was about to tear it up , when he caught it from destruction , and holding it out of reach , said , laughing wickedly , -- `` The ` mon ' is one abbreviation of ` monsieur , ' but you put no little -- how do you say ? -- period at the end of him ; it goes now in English -- My Casimer Teblinski , ' and that is of the most charming address . '' Amy colored , but had her return shot ready . `` Do n't exult ; that was only an oversight , not a deliberate deception like that you put upon me . It was very wrong and rude , and I shall not forgive it . '' '' Mon Dieu ! where have I gone in sinning ! I am a polisson , as I say each day , but not a villain , I swear to you . Say to me that which I have made of wrong , and I will do penance . '' `` You told me ' Ma drogha ' was the Polish for ` My pupil , ' and let me call you so a long time ; I am wiser now , '' replied Amy , with great dignity . `` Who has said stupidities to you , that you doubt me ? '' and Casimer assumed an injured look , though his eyes danced with merriment . `` I heard Hoffman singing a Polish song to little Roserl , the burden of which was , ' Ma drogha , Ma drogha , ' and when I asked him to translate it , those two words meant , ` My darling . ' How dare you , ungrateful creature that you are ! ''
As Amy spoke , half-confusedly , half-angrily , XXXXX went down upon his knees , with folded hands and penitent face , exclaiming , in good English , -- `` Be merciful to me a sinner .
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