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I've invented things about him because these chaps like to hear me tell them. They're only stories." "We likes 'im," a voice called out, "becos 'e wos the right sort; 'e'd fight, 'e would, if 'e was in Samavia now." Marco rapidly asked himself how much he might say. He decided and spoke to them all. "He is not part of a legend. He's part of Samavian history," he said.
It was very certain 'e'd never bin brought up to work for 'is livin'. The most probable explanation was that 'e'd committed some crime and bin disowned by 'is family pinched some money, or forged a cheque or something like that. Then there was that Sawkins. He was no class whatever.
Then he came to the last of all and read out: "'Miss Joan Tregenza, Post-Office, Penzance. To be left until called for." "Mine, mine, sir! I knawed 'e'd have it! I knawed as the kind, good " Then she stopped and grew red, while the clerk looked at her curiously and then yawned.
Peter said it was very kind of 'im, but 'e'd sooner go alone, owing to his mother being very shy afore strangers. "Well, I'll come down to the station and take a ticket for you," ses Isaac. Then Peter lost 'is temper altogether, and banged 'is fist on the table and smashed 'arf the crockery.
"'Ow can you swear to it when it was dark?" Mr. Cutts didn't answer 'im. He went down on 'is knees and cut the string that tied up the mouth o' the sack, and then 'e started back as if 'e'd been shot, and 'is eyes a'most started out of 'is 'ead. "Wot's the matter?" ses the squire. Mr.
Mivins became quite low-spirited about it, and said "as 'ow 'e'd 'ave a 'eavy 'eart for hever and hever, hamen," after he was gone. O'Riley remarked, in reference to his departure, that every man in the ship was about to lose a "son!" Yes, indeed he did; he perpetrated that atrocious pun, and wasn't a bit ashamed of it.
But there, it didn't make no more difference to 'er than if it 'ad been water." Mrs. Briggs heaved a sob, and picked up a corner of her apron to wipe her eyes. "I told 'er as I dursn't give 'er any more because of what the doctor 'ad said, and I said as 'ow Briggs 'ad gone for him, and 'e'd know 'ow to quiet 'er when 'e came. But the very thought of 'im seemed to drive 'er crazy.
W'y we 'ad a genel'man in 'ere, only lars' week it was, as 'adn't been 'ome for five days and nights and the coat mos tore off 'is back along with a bit of turn-up 'e'd 'at one o' them night clubs. And drunk I... w'y 'e went to bite the rubber, so they wos tellin' me!
'She mightn't trust 'im arter that. I never thort myself 'e'd turn as quick as 'e did. But men is queer, as my pore mother often said when father give 'er a black eye just to show 'ow fond 'e was of her like. No, the best thing to do is to let Miss Marryun think that Mr. Roarings is still taken up with 'er and only went after the other young lady to make 'er jealous.
"But what else?" urged Coolin. "Nothin' about a drame at all?" "Who's talkin' about dreams!" said Bagshot. 'E wasn't no bloomin' poet. 'E was a man. What 'e said 'e said like a man. 'E said 'e'd got word from Mary which is proper that a man should do when 'e's a-chuckin' of 'is tent-pegs. If 'e ain't got no mother an' Connor 'adn't 'is wife or 'is sweetheart 'as the honour."
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