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"Woa, steady!" he muttered, addressing the ladder which for a second swayed beneath him "Woa, I sez! This ain't no billowy ocean with wot they calls an underground swell! So the ice 'ave broke, 'ave it!
Shall we say in one hour's time?" "Very well." "Then I will wish you good evening, sir. Thank you, sir. I am glad to 'ave been of assistance." He withdrew as he had come, with a large impressiveness. The room seemed very empty without him. George, with trembling fingers, began to put on a pair of thick boots.
"Patter an Ave quickly," he growled, "ere I slay you with the sight of a drawn sword." It was such a menace as might have fretted many a man that was brave enough, for Simone was out of the common tall and strong, but it fretted our Dante no whit, and he only smiled derisively at the giant.
"Well, I believe I 'ave," answered the little man, with an involuntary glance at his dilapidated clothes; "'avin' been inwited unless," he added, somewhat doubtfully, "the inwite came in a dream." "You may go in and clear up that point for yourself," said the landlady, as she ushered the poor man into the parlour, where he was almost startled to find an amiable gentleman waiting to receive him.
Fifth Army fair smashed up." "Good Gawd!" "Ten miles into our lines." "Oh, 'ell!" "Took thirty thousand prisoners Gawd knows 'ow many guns." "Thousands of casualties." "And 'ave we stopped 'im?" "No still fallin' back." Pessimism, something akin to consternation, found a hold upon the mental outlook of the troops in the sector.
There is nothing more aggravating than a smile when it is properly done; but there was no signs o' my lord, and, arter practising it on a carman by mistake, I 'ad to go inside for a bit and wait till he 'ad gorn. "The coast was clear by the time I went back, and I 'ad just stepped outside with my back up agin the gate-post to 'ave a pipe, when I see a boy coming along with a bag.
"You always do wot I tell you, don't you? Al-ways 'ave, especially when it's anything you like." She fetched a bucket o' water and scrubbed the kitchen while I was having my brekfuss, but I kept my eye on 'er, and, the moment she 'ad finished, I did the perlite and emptied the bucket for 'er, to prevent mistakes.
'I shall send you in some gravy soup, that you may thank me for. Ave never would order anything but boiled chickens for you, and forgets that other people ever want to eat. There will be a chance of making a housekeeper of her now. How selfish, thought Averil, to want to get rid of poor Leonard, that I may attend to his dinners. Yet Henry had spoken in perfect good-humour.
"From my headquarters in Chihuahua I will give you pen, ink, messenger-boy everysing!" "But I " Pell started to say. But Lopez broke in: "You will please listen more and speak less. I 'ave decide. You I shall 'old for ransom. And," turning to Hardy, "you; and you," pointing to Uncle Henry, "you who 'ave nossing, I shall leave be'ind." Pell and Hardy felt that the game was over.
Tipping, as she sat with the brooches ranged upon her capacious lap; "he's extravagant. I don't like a mean man, but one who flings his money away is almost as bad. These 'ere brooches are very pretty, and they do him credit, but I can't say but what something cheaper wouldn't 'ave done as well." "I thought you liked them," said the indignant Flower. "I like them well enough," said Mrs.
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