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"Ma'am," said he, "miss, respectful greetin's. Your name's Hermione, ain't it?" "Yes," she answered, wondering. "Knowed it was. And a partic'ler fine gal too! Though not 'oldin' wi' marridge, I don't blame the Guv 'e always 'ad a quick eye for beauty like me." "But who are you? What do you want " "Miss, I want you leastways 'e does.
"You kin ca'y 'em ef you don' keep 'em hid," explained the ex-soldier in a wooden voice. "Mr. Bobbs tol' me dat when he guv my gun back." The irony of the thing caught Peter, for the authorities to arrest Tump not because he was trying to kill Peter, but because he went about his first attempt in an illegal manner.
"Gentlemen," he piped in his shrill old voice, "I take pleasure to introduce Joe Madden, undefeated 'eavyweight champion o' the world, an' the Guv both members of this club an' both trained by me, Jack Bowser, once lightweight champion of England an' hall the Americas. Gentlemen, it will be a fight to a finish Markis o' Queensberry rules. Gentlemen I thank ye."
So Hannibal concluded his simple, but most effective, service by kneeling down by his pulpit, the rosebush, and praying: "Bressed Jesus, guv dis dear chile a new heart, 'cause she wants it, and you wants her to hab it. Make it pure and full of lub. You can do it, dear Jesus. You knows you can. Now, jes please do it. Amen." Zell's responsive "Amen" was like a note from an AEolian harp.
"You leave me alone, Joe," said the Old Un, scowling and flourishing a trembling fist, "you lemme be, or you'll be pale an' nigh t' death next. Well, there was you, Guv, an' all s' pale an' still when: ''Oo giveth this woman? says the parson-cove very solemn. 'That's me! says I, quick an' ready.
Oh, ingratitood, thou art the Guv!" So saying, the Old Un clapped on his hat and creaked indignantly away. "Crumbs!" exclaimed Joe, "what a bloodthirsty old cove he is, with his gallers-trees! This means jam, this does." "Jam?" repeated Ravenslee wonderingly. "Sir, whenever the Old Un's put out, 'e flies to jam same as some chaps do to drink; makes a fair old beast of hisself, he do.
'Whoo-whew! responded the locomotive; and the train moved slowly out of the station-house. The baggageman meditatively watched it, as it sped away in the distance, and then, as if a thought suddenly struck him, slapping his thigh, he exclaimed, 'Blest if I don't believe 'What? inquired the switchman. 'That I've gone and guv them three last fellers the wrong checks!
"Why, you see, you have surely done me a very great service." "Meanin' because I found ye th' murderer." "Murderer?" exclaimed Ravenslee, staring. "Why, yes there 'e is!" and the old man pointed a long finger at the shrinking Spike. "Old Un," said Ravenslee, shaking his head, "don't joke with me " "I I ain't jokin', Guv," cried the Old Un, rising.
"'Ow was I born, I ask? Wot was my old man? A drunk, a chronic. An' my old woman? Talk of Whitechapel! 'Oo guv a cent for me, or 'ow I was dragged up? 'Oo cared a rap, I say? 'Oo cared a rap?" A sudden revulsion came over Corliss. "Hold your tongue!" he ordered. The Virgin raised her head, her loosened hair streaming about her like a Fury's. "Wot is she?" she sneered. "Sweet'eart?"
I guv it a rap, I did, sich as it hadn't had since it was born if ghosts be born at all an' my knuckles paid for it, too, for they was skinned all up; then I lay down tremblin', and then, I dun know how it was, I went to sleep. "Next mornin' I got up to look for the ghost, and, sure enough, I found his remains!
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