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"Who wants sparkling water? 'Tain't like English. It's so thin and cold." "Come, come; you must own that you are mending fast, Punch." "Who wants to be mended," snarled the poor fellow, "and go through life like my old woman's cracked chayney plate with the rivet in it! I was a strong lad once, and could beat any drummer in the regiment in a race, while now I ought to be in horspital."
I'll strive to do my best," in the old fawning manner, to which Holmes nodded a curt reply. The man stopped for Sophy to gather up her bits of broken "chayney" with which she was making a tea-party on the table, and went down-stairs. Towards evening Holmes went out, not going through the narrow passage that led to the offices, but avoiding it by a circuitous route.
I hope Catrina received your little consolations well. That seems a very sad affair." "Murder, real murder, devil a less! It's no matter where you go, from Clonmel to Chayney, it's all one; they've a way of getting round you. Upon my soul, it's like the pigs they are." "Like pigs, Mike? That appears a strange compliment you've selected to pay them." "Ay, just like the pigs, no less.
Why should we say goold and write gold, and call china chayney, and Cavendish Candish, and Cholmondeley Chumley? If we call Pulteney Poltney, why shouldn't we call poultry pultry and "'Such an enchantress as your ladyship, says he, 'is mistress of all sorts of spells. But this was Dr. Swift's pun, and we all knew it.
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