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"You 'aven't made it clear to me why you're objecting to that two hundred now." Isaac was beginning to feel that stupidity was now his refuge. "I'm not objecting to your reckless extravagance, as you seem to think. I'm trying to suggest that twelve hundred is a ridiculously small offer for a collection which can't be worth less than four thousand." "It may be worth that to a collector.
He suddenly began plucking out the gold they were thrusting upon him, and shouting out at them to prevent their giving him more. "'I don't WANT yer gold, I said. 'I 'aven't done yet. I'm not going. I want to speak to that Fairy Lady again. I started off to go after her and they held me back. Yes, stuck their little 'ands against my middle and shoved me back.
"And you haven't got a solitary measurement of all these beautiful growth curves!" said Redwood. "I been too upthet, Thir," said Mr. Skinner. "If you knew what we been through me and the mithith! All thith latht month. We 'aven't known what to make of it, Thir. What with the henth gettin' tho rank, and the earwigth, and the canary creeper. I dunno if I told you, Thir the canary creeper ..."
He was lost in these thoughts, and had indeed wandered almost into the little wood that lies at the foot of the Orchards, when he heard a deep rich voice say: "I suppose you 'aven't such a thing as a match upon you anywhere, young gentleman?"
Hodges, who had been attending to her own domestic duties, came downstairs again. Mrs. Kemp was on the bed sleeping. 'I was just 'avin' a little nap, she said to Mrs. Hodges, on waking. ''Ow is the girl? asked that lady. 'Oh, answered Mrs. Kemp, 'my rheumatics 'as been thet bad I really 'aven't known wot ter do with myself, an' now Liza can't rub me I'm worse than ever.
"Don't ask me," said the engineer, in a weak voice, "I 'aven't the power to kill a flea." "There ain't one left living to kill," retorted the stoker, as he contemplated the smoking wreck. "There was 'undreds in that van, too," he added as an afterthought.
That's what I say." The secret-chamber of each heart was rapidly examined during the pause that followed. Three heads were shaken. "We haven't got any secrets from YOU," said Bobbie at last. "Maybe you 'ave, and maybe you 'aven't," said Perks; "it ain't nothing to me. And I wish you all a very good afternoon." He held up the paper between him and them and went on reading.
"You sit 'ere and 'ave 'am, my lord!" said Mrs. Punt, prevailing. "Pie you can't 'ave and you won't." "Lor bless my heart, Mrs. Punt!" protested Mr. Voules, "let the boy 'ave a bit if he wants it wedding and all!" "You 'aven't 'ad 'im sick on your 'ands, Uncle Voules," said Mrs. Punt. "Else you wouldn't want to humour his fancies as you do...."
"This 'ere's my luggige," she explained. "You can go through it, if you like, to make sure I 'aven't took none of your rubbige away with me! I'm a-going, I am! The master he come and give me notice to leave at the end o' the month, but I don't choose to stay in no sech a place so long. I've 'ad enough of a tipsy missus, and an' ouse without an atim o' comfit! I'm a-goin!"
But he took all the impudence out of me by announcing most plainly that he understood Brad wanted to kill 'im and that I'd best 'ave a care how I acted, because my 'ouse was being watched by secret service men. There was a lot more, but I 'aven't time to tell you. The upshot of it is, he's going to 'ave Brad nabbed and put where he can't do any 'arm.
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