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Phillips, bring me the menu, and let's see the messman has succeeded in being funny without being vulgar." Corporal Phillips brought the menu with the air of one who connives at a felony. "Messman says, sir, it ain't all 'e'd like it to be, what with guests comin' and that. But I says to 'im, 'war is war, I says, 'an' we can't expect eggs-on-meat entrées, same's if it was peace time."
"Takes 'imself off," repeated her husband; "takes 'imself off as if we was dirt beneath 'is feet, and never been back to give a explanation from that day to this." "I'm not easy surprised," said Mrs. Kybird, "I never was from a gal, but I must say Teddy's been a surprise to me. If anybody 'ad told me 'e'd ha' behaved like that I wouldn't ha' believed it; I couldn't.
'E'd 'ad 'is thigh bone smashed all to bits, and they'd jest taken 'is leg off when I saw 'im. 'E was weak as a kid and chirpy as a sparrer, and only cursin' becos 'e was out of things for the rest of the war. I never 'eard what 'appened to 'im, but the nurse told me as 'ow they was afraid 'e wouldn't recover becos of emmyridge, or something with a name like that.
And even when it was pointed out to 'im that Keeper Lewis was follering of 'im he said that it just 'appened he was going the same way, that was all. And sometimes 'e'd get up in the middle of the night and go for a fifteen- mile walk 'cos 'e'd got the toothache, and Mr. Lewis, who 'adn't got it, had to tag along arter 'im till he was fit to drop.
Clodd, a heavy thud upon the floor above having caused him to start out of his chair. "'E came in an hour after you'd gone," explained Mrs. Postwhistle, "bringing with him a curtain pole as 'e'd picked up for a shilling in Clare Market. 'E's rested one end upon the mantelpiece and tied the other to the back of the easy-chair 'is idea is to twine 'imself round it and go to sleep upon it.
Then 'e set down on the foot o' their bed and made eyes over at Peter. "Wake 'im up agin," ses Peter, in a temper. Ginger Dick got up and, leaning over the bed, took old Isaac by the shoulders and shook 'im as if 'e'd been a bottle o' medicine. "Time to get up, lads?" ses old Isaac, putting one leg out o' bed. "No, it ain't," ses Ginger, very rough; "we ain't been to bed yet.
It was a silly thing to say, seeing that that was just wot 'ad 'appened, and Ginger told 'im wot 'e'd do for 'im when 'e'd finished with Isaac. He went at the old man agin, but 'e never 'ad a chance, and in about three minutes 'e was very glad to let Peter 'elp 'im into bed. "It's your turn to fight him now, Peter," he ses. "Just move this piller so as I can see." "Come on, lad," ses the old man.
What 'ave you done with 'im? inquired Crass. 'I think 'e'll be all right, replied Philpot. 'He wouldn't let me go no further with 'im: said if I didn't go away, 'e'd go for me! But I believe 'e'll be all right. I think the fall sobered 'im a bit. 'Oh, 'e's all right, said Crass offhandedly. 'There's nothing the matter with 'im.
She spoke of 'our friend John Stuart Mill. 'Oo's Mill? 'That great Liberal wrote in 1867 But Mill and she were drowned together. She waited a moment for the flood of derision to subside. ''E wouldn't 'ad nothin' to do with yer if 'e'd thought you'd go on like you done. 'Benjamin Disraeli was on our side. Mazzini Charles Kingsley.
They had half an hour off in the afternoon, and were comparing notes. 'Nice-lookin' couple, ain't they, John? said the maid, with the air of an expert. 'I don't know as we've 'ad a better since the spring weddin's. 'I don't know as I'd go as far as that, said the fat waiter critically. ''E'd pass all right. 'E's an upstandin' young man with a good sperrit in 'im.
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