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I couldn't 'elp 'earin' in the next room, or seein' for the matter of that. Master Jerry is out of 'is 'ead about 'er, an' no mistake, sir. I could 'ear 'is voice soft-like an she indifferent, leadin' 'im on, a-playin' with 'im, sir. Seemed to me like she was sweet an' mad-like by turns. She's a strange one, Mr.
"'Ere's a country robin what is a cousin of Phin's! Come and 'elp me pick 'em!" Screaming and shouting at the tops of their voices, scores of sparrows came rushing straight at Robert Robin and his family. Robert Robin was very angry, and the first sparrow that came within the reach of his strong bill, he sent reeling to the ground.
Comic songs a' Sunday, it was getting to, and driving trade away. And she was making eyes at the chaps, too! I tell you, Tom, the place wasn't my own." "Shouldn't 'a' thought it." "It was so. Well I reasoned with her. I said, 'I ain't a duke, to keep a wife like a pet animal. I married you for 'elp and company. I said, 'You got to 'elp and pull the business through. She wouldn't 'ear of it.
"Pull out that table, Mack; and you, there, bear a 'and to 'elp 'im, 'Enery. Set hup the little chair, Williams! Easy with Saint Paul, you, Tommy, or you'll crack him sure and lay the whole caboodlum on the shelf, hout of 'arm's way! Lively, lads lively!" Bob lifted Daisy in his arms, and carrying her to the table, installed her comfortably in the little chair.
'He's sure to be there, arter a turn or two. "I managed to keep 'er quiet for 'arf an hour with the 'elp of the people wot sat near us and then I 'ad to go. I 'ad a glass o' beer to pass the time away, and, while I was drinking it, who should come up but the cook and one of the hands from the <i>Lizzie and Annie</i>. "'We saw you, ses the cook, winking; 'didn't we Bob?
"If we even 'ad a porch it would 'elp to keep the wind and snow hout, but I ain't complainin', sir. I've on'y too good reason to be thankful." "Dear Miss Matilda," said the old nurse, dusting a wooden chair with her apron, and beaming all over with joy, "it's good for sore eyes to see you. Don't mind the child'n, miss, an' do sit down near the fire.
Jennings, who was pressing a button at the end of the room, stopped. "Take her upstairs, Twining. She will alarm the gang!" "Alarm who?" cried the cook, struggling with the inspector. "Whatever do you mean? Shame shame to 'old a defenceless lady. 'Elp!" But her cries for help were unheeded. Twining bore her up the stairs and summoned one of his men. In a few minutes Mrs.
'It's shame I cry on you, miss, for tryin' to break the pore man's 'eart. Then I s'pose I can't give 'im that there fotograft of you? 'My photograph! Of all the unspeakable 'It was with 'im sayin' that if 'e only 'ad it to look at it might 'elp to parss all the dark 'ours 'e 'as to spend away from you. 'E sed 'e wanted it to look at wen 'e was lyin' awake at night, thinkin' of you.
It's gorn to a pusson I can trust to tyke keer of it, and I'm trooly thenkful " "It jest amarnts to this, miss: the biziness is too much for the missus as things is " "I wouldn't keer if my 'ealth was what it used to be, in the dyes when I 'ad Booboo." "But it ain't, and she's often said as how she'd like a young laidy to live with her and 'elp her with the shop."
I can see now the huge bulk of the elder Jarvis as he stood in the melting, soot-powdered snow in front of his shop, and hear his comments on my pertinacity. "If you ever wants another man's missus when you grows up, my lad, Gawd 'elp 'im!" "Why should I want another man's wife when I don't want one of my own?" I demanded, indignant. He laughed with his customary lack of moderation.
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