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Lady Slumrent is very fond of her pretty pets and she does not allow them to be fed on anything but the very best food; they gets chicken, rump steak, mutton chops, rice pudding, jelly and custard. 'I wished I was a pet dog, don't you? remarked Tommy Newman to Charley Linden. 'Not arf! replied Charley.
We talked all night pretty near, and then, at ha'-past five, arf an hour afore the 'ands came on, I made up my mind to fetch a cab and drive 'em to my 'ouse. I wanted Rupert to go somewhere else, but 'e said he 'ad got nowhere else to go, and it was the only thing to get 'em off the wharf.
"Go and get yourself 'arf a pint o' warm lemonade," chimed in the voice of the daring Joseph. Mr. Russell stepped towards him, but Mr. Vickers, seizing him by the coat, held him back and implored him to remember where he was. "I'd bump the lot of you for two pins," said the disappointed Mr. Russell, longingly. "And it'ud do you good; you'd all be the better for it.
You ain't 'arf been a bad ole sort, mate," and kissed her and turned away as she slipped back into the night where she belonged. Farther along in the crowd an Ordinary Seaman, tall and debonair and sleek of hair, bade osculatory farewell to a mother, an aunt, a fiancée and two sisters. "'Ere," finally interrupted his chum, "'ere, Alf, where do I come in?"
"I bin an' stole 'arf a pound o' sugar off of the Eelite 'Atshop where I does a bit o' cleanin'. Ef I get out o' this alive, I swear I'll repay it an 'undredfold that is ef I can get that much awf me sugar card...." Sarah Brown was becoming sleepy. A blankness was invading her mind, and the talk in the crypt seemed to lose its meaning, and to consist chiefly of S's.
"He will 'ave it as the young man's gone off with the young woman," she observed. Mr. Partington made a commentatory sound. "An' 'e's 'arf mad," she added. "'E means mischief if 'e can manage it." Mr. Partington observed, in his own particular kind of vocabulary, that the Major's intentions were absurd, since the young man would scarcely be such a peculiarly qualified kind of fool as to return.
"Bit off to-night, Bill. Cold house." "Not 'arf," replied his colleague. "Gave me the shivers." "Wonder how his nibs'll go." Evidently he referred to the Grand Duke. "Oh, 'e's all right. They eat his sort of swank. Seems to me the profession's going to the dogs, what with these bloomin' amytoors an' all. Got the 'airbrush, 'Arry?" Harry, a tall, silent Zouave, handed over the hairbrush.
"We'll 'ave a look at it without waking 'im. You take that side, Peter! Mind you don't disturb 'im." He put his 'and in under the bed-clo'es and felt all up and down Sam's back, very careful. Sam stood it for 'arf a minute, and then 'e sat up in bed and behaved more like a windmill than a man. "Hold his 'ands," ses Ginger. "Hold 'em yourself," ses Peter, dabbing 'is nose with his shirt-sleeve.
I believe 'e told his 'ands wot I said; anyway, two bits o' coke missed me by 'arf an inch next evening, and for some weeks not one of 'em spoke a word to me. When they see me coming they just used to stand up straight and twist their nose. It didn't 'urt me, o' course. I took no notice of 'em. Even when one of 'em fell over the broom I was sweeping with I took no notice of 'im.
'How are we going on about this job? inquired the latter after they had each taken a long drink, for they were thirsty after their exertions. 'I reckon we ought to 'ave more than a bob for it, don't you? It's not like a ordinary "lift in". 'Of course it ain't, replied Crass. 'We ought to 'ave about, say' reflecting 'say arf a dollar each at the very least. 'Little enough too, said Sawkins.
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