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The gate's open, and you can go as soon as you like." Sam climbed out of the cab, and holding up the counterpane walked across the yard in 'is bare feet to the stable. "Well, will you drive me 'ome?" he ses. "Cert'inly not," ses the cabman; "I'm going 'ome myself now. It's time you went, 'cos I'm going to lock up." "'Ow can I go like this?" ses Sam, bursting with passion.
"Cert'inly not," ses Ginger, "not if we stay 'ere all night." "Pay 'im the five bob," ses Sam, raising 'is voice; "it's my money." "You keep quiet," ses Ginger, "and speak when your spoke to. Get inside, Peter." Peter, wot was standing by blinking and smiling, misunderstood 'im, and went back inside the pub.
You understand?... I'm going now to motor to the village and get the constables; I may," he invented desperately, "be delayed may have to get a detective from Brooklyn. If this scoundrel stirs, don't touch him. Let him alone he can't escape if you do. Above all things, don't you dare to remove that gag!" "Most cert'inly, sir. I shall bear in mind wot you says " "You'd best," grimly. "Now I'm off.
"No, no; cert'inly not," ses Joseph, patting 'im on the shoulder; "but couldn't you do it just for once? 'Ave a dream that me and Emily are killed a few days arter the wedding. Don't say in wot way, 'cos she might think we could avoid it; just dream we are killed.
So long as the little girls were quiet they were presumably good, and hence, to a surety, undisturbed. Still, it is hardly possible that even their carelessness would fail to take account of Genevieve Maud's unoccupied bed, if unoccupied it proved to be. "An' cert'inly papa will know." Helen Adeline's last hope died with this sudden reminder. She sighed.
"No, no; cert'inly not," ses Joseph, patting 'im on the shoulder; "but couldn't you do it just for once? 'Ave a dream that me and Emily are killed a few days arter the wedding. Don't say in wot way, 'cos she might think we could avoid it; just dream we are killed.
Wa'al, I says, 'I don't jest know how it happened, an' the elder cert'inly didn't, fer after they'd got him untangled f'm under what was left of the woodshed an' the kitchin stove, an' tied him up in cotton battin', an' set his leg, an' put out the house, an' a few things like that, bom-by he come round a little, an' the fust thing he says was, "Wa'al, wa'al, wa'al!"
"It was only my fun," ses Sam, very quick. "I ain't kidnapping you, am I?" ses the cabman. "Cert'inly not," ses Sam. "Well, then," ses the cabman, "if I was you I should pay 'arf a crown for a night's lodging in this nice warm stable, and in the morning I should ask the man it belongs to that's me to go up to my lodging with a letter, asking for a suit o' clothes and eleven-and-six."
They might be acting like hoodlums over this here food, but they ain't never seen none just like it before," She bit into one of Mandy's beaten biscuit sandwiches with the pink ham in between, herself, with relish. "Your aunt must have a mighty good cook. She cert'inly must!"
Dick said the dominie didn't say anythin' fer a minute or two, an' then he says to Am, 'I suppose you c'n find somebody that'll marry you, but I cert'inly won't, an' what possesses you to commit such a piece o' folly, he says, 'passes my understandin'. What earthly reason have you fer wantin' to marry?
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