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Spruce had kissed her on the cheek at her own request, and had caught her little hand and kissed that, and had then hurried out of the room before her rising sobs could break out, as they did, into rebellious blubbering. "Which the Lord Almighty's ways are 'ard to bear!" she wailed.
"'Ere, 'old 'ard! Can't a bloke git a word in edgeways?" Mrs Yabsley stopped, with an odd smile on her face. Jonah stared at her with a perplexed frown, and then the words came in a rush.
Anybody 'ud have a 'ard time of it to deceive you; and then they wouldn't gain nothing by it." "Nobody ever 'as yet," ses Sam, smiling at 'im. "And nobody ever will," ses the dark man, shaking his 'cad; "if they was all as fly as you, I might as well put the shutters up. How did you twig I was a detective officer, cap'n?" Sam, wot was taking a drink, got some beer up 'is nose with surprise.
It is 'ard to know 'ow to get him, but 'e is to be got if we only knew 'ow. Sometimes 'tis most surprising how easy 'e do take things, and at others well, as about that piece of steak that I was a-telling you of.
He addresses Mr Gordon with an attempt at conciliation and deference. "It seems very 'ard, sir, as a man can't get the trifle of money coming to him, which I've worked 'ard for." "It's very hard you won't try and shear decently," retorts Mr Gordon, by no means conciliated. "Leave the shed!"
"You don't understand, Ginger," said Sam, in a soft voice; "it ain't often a chap gets the chance o' making a bit o' money these 'ard times." "So we've put all our money on Bill Lumm," ses Peter. "It's the safest and easiest way o' making money I ever 'eard of. You see, we know you're not a prize-fighter and the others don't."
The voice that issued from her blue lips might have been a scream, judging by the wrung anguish of the awful face she turned upon him; but it was no more than a dry, clicking whisper that the now listening servant could barely hear: "Don't be 'ard on a woman ... hin trouble, Doctor." "Hard on you.... On the contrary, I have been too considerate," he said, steeling his heart against pity.
He could think of nothing more recondite than a revolver. Huish resumed his seat. 'Now, said he, 'are you man enough to take charge of 'Errick and the niggers? Because I'll take care of Hattwater. 'How? cried Davis. 'You can't! 'Tut, tut! said the clerk. 'You gimme time. Wot's the first point? The first point is that we can't get ashore, and I'll make you a present of that for a 'ard one.
There's no one to be considered of on our account, Sir." "You poor little sprats, and you want to go up to the Front with the Regiment, do you? Why?" "I've wore the Queen's Uniform for two years," said Jakin. "It's very 'ard, Sir, that a man don't get no recompense for doin' 'is dooty, Sir."
"Liar yourself, Cris," said Lew, slipping an arm round her. "I'm goin'. When the Reg'ment marches out you'll see me with 'em, all galliant and gay. Give us another kiss, Cris, on the strength of it." "If you'd on'y a-stayed at the Depot where you ought to ha' bin you could get as many of 'em as as you dam please," whimpered Cris, putting up her mouth. "It's 'ard, Cris.
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