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Jonathan grinned as he retorted: "Well, no man would waste any time if all the girls were like you. They'd all be comin' early to avoid the rush. Is Mrs. Burke employin' your services as a matrimonial agent? Maybe you won't mind tellin' me what you're to get if the deal pulls off. Is there a rake-off anywheres?"
"Them's nice clo'es you've got on," said he, sarcastically, as Dick came up. "Yes," said Dick, promptly. "I've been employin' your tailor. If my face was only dirty we'd be taken for twin brothers." "So you've give up tryin' to be a swell?" "Only for this partic'lar occasion," said Dick. "I wanted to make a fashionable call, so I put on my regimentals."
Havin faulded this letter, which I did wi' a tremblin hand and palpitatin heart, I clapt it into my pocket-book, whar it lay for three days, for want o' courage to dispatch it, and, in some sort, for want o' opportunity too; for if I sent it by the post, there was a danger o't fa'in into the hands o' Lizzy's faither Lizzy Barton bein the name o' my enthraller; and there was naebody else that I could think o' employin in the business.
"An' I'm so much obliged to you, Connor, that I'll remimber your employin' me in this the longest day I have to live. But, Connor?" "Well, Bartle." "I'd take the sacrament, that, after all, a ring you'll never put on her." "And what makes you think so, Bartle?" "Ay, but I'm sure of her." "But you're not; wait till I see you man and wife, an' thin I'll say so.
The modern kind, you find by employin' the Divinin' Rod" the large narrator bestowed a wink on Saxham and added "on the backs of the fellows who buried the guns. Never fails used in that way. And as it chances I have a communication to make to you." "A communication a message from the Chief to me?" Saxham's face changed, and softened, and brightened curiously and pleasantly.
The manufacturer's got to make his little profit somewhere an' in a cheap bottle he makes it by employin' young boys cheap an' workin' 'em till they drop." "Is it done this way everywhere?" The workman shook his head. "No need to do it even here," he said. "It takes money, though, to put in an endless belt to carry the bottles to the annealin' oven.
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