pichi,-you know, that impudent fellow from the temple of Neith,-pushed me back, barred the door inside and told the police to put me in fetters if I refused to obey him.
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Georg Ebers
I pretended to be quite crushed into submission by the sight of the signet-ring, begged pichi as politely as I could to unfasten my hands, and told him I would fetch the keys.
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Georg Ebers
Then I opened the door as if nothing had happened, told pichi the child had had a knife in his mouth, and that that was the reason I had run upstairs in such a hurry, and had put him out on the balcony to punish him.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers