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"Ay, ay, sir," came the reply, and anon Walker appeared. "It's main thick ahead, sir, but I think we-aw passin' an island to port," said he. "I thought so. You had better remain here, Walker. We have not long to wait now for the dawn, and four eyes are better than two." Walker imagined that the skipper was ready for a chat. "Things are in a dweadful mess below, sir.
I would hurriedly state that the Doctor's remarks were anent two pictures which are, I believe, occasionally to be found in officers' messes in the B.E.F. pictures of a Parisian flavour as befits the Entente pictures which at any rate they are well known to many, and I will not specify further. "Yes, the lady with the gween wig is dweadful." The boy sipped his port. "Infant, I'm shocked at you.
"Oh, Mawiquita, so glad you have come! Mother is so busy that she can't be with me at all, and these wretched bwanches pwick my fingers! Do look wound, and say how it looks! This is weally the servants' hall, you know, as we have not a pwoper ballroom, and it is so square and high that it is perfectly dweadful to decowate! A long, narrow woom is so much better!"
I don't know what on earth I shall do, if you can't give me something to black the toes." She held out the shoes as she spoke, and Rosalind gave a shrill scream of laughter. "Oh! oh! Those things! How fwightfully funny! what a fwightful joke! You will look like Cinderwella, when she wan away, and the glass slippers changed back to her dweadful old clogs. It is too scweamingly funny, I do declare!"
She became perfectly calm the moment other persons appeared, and was replacing the pistols in her pocket, when Furlong requested the "dweadful weapons" might be seized. The old lady gave up the pistols very quietly, but laid hold of her bird and put it back into her pocket. "This is a dweadful violation!" said Furlong, "and my life is not safe unless she is bound ove' to keep the peace."
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