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"'Yes, surely, I says, pretty spiteful 'dirty business and all. "He dropped the glass. "'What's that? says he, short-like. "So cardingly I told him all about it. "'That's my friend Fat George, says he between his teeth. "'I suppose it's news to you, I sneers. "He looks me in the eyes properly. "'This is the first I've heard of it, says he. 'Struth it is!
Here'd I been tow-rowin up and down the high seas at tenpence a day these six years past, doin my little bit to spoil Boney's game; and here was this chap dismissed with ignominy, mind! toff'd out like a dandy Admiral, flashin his French rings and sham Emperors in my face. "Still I aren't no mug. So cardingly, "'What's it all about, Bert? says I, confidential-like.
Boys, take him to the top o Deepdene, and give him a tilt down. Gently does it, says he. 'He's an honester man nor any o you. "So cardingly they march me away. "But I hadn't gone above a dozen steps, when I heard him comin a'ter me. "'Reube, says he, kind o shy-like, 'I suppose you won't shake with an old ship-mate? "'No, says I, 'I don't shake with no traitors. "He drops his hand.
"'Ah, well, says he, 'think the best you can o me. You're much the man I'd ha been, if God had been gooder to me. Good-bye, Reube, says he. 'All the luck. "And somehow he seemed a bit o choky; and somehow I felt the same myself. "So cardingly they march me away to the top o the coombe, where it's steep as a ship's side, and gave me a shove.
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