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An now, whar d'ye think he druv?" The boys couldn't think. "Guess, now." The boys couldn't guess. "D'ye guv it up?" They did. "Wal, the paper said, he druv ashore at Grand Manan; but I've my doubts about it." The captain paused, looked all around through the fog, and stood for a moment as though listening to some sound.
"Mr Blake, thin Mr Blake, darlint doesn't ye remimber the promise you guv me?" "Mr Jerry, Mr Jerry, avick," this was addressed to the brother "spake a word for me; do, yer honour; shure it was I come all the way from Teddy Mahony's with the breeches this morning, God bless 'em, and the fine legs as is in 'em." But they were all balked, for Blake had his servant there.
'You har a honor to the British Harmy, sez 'e. With that e' describes the hawful band of dacoits wot set on 'im. There was about forty of 'em an' 'e was hoverpowered by numbers, so 'e was; but 'e never lorst 'is presence of mind, so 'e didn't. 'E guv the hekka-driver five rupees for 'is noble assistance, an' 'e said 'e would see to us after 'e 'ad spoken to the Kernul.
What has done it? The young man's done it. You'll be tellin' the ould fella it's the tonic you've guv her. Tonic! How long d'ye think he'll belave it? "But she never sees Mr. Guise, does she, Patsy? Isn't his mother always with him? Hasn't Mazarine forbidden his wife to enter the room?" Kernaghan threw out his hands.
"I b'lieve thin she was, yer honour. 'Twas broad day, I'm thinking, when she guv' over moaning. She warn't that way when he went away." "And who's he?" "Jist Mike, thin." "And is Mike your husband?" he asked. She was not very willing to talk; but it appeared at last that Mike was her husband, and that having become a cripple through rheumatism, he had not been able to work on the roads.
"'Ere I be a old man as 'as done more for ye than all th' young 'uns put t'gether. Mrs. Ravenslee, ma'am, best respex!" "And what have you been doing now?" enquired Ravenslee, smiling. "Well, Guv, I been an' got th' murderer for ye, that's all!"
"'E 's a perishin' pork pig, that's wot 'e is. Joe, you blighter, put me down. It's me as the Guv expects it's me as 'as come a-visitin' Joe, put me down, you perisher. Joe's only a hoaf, ma'am, a nass, ma'am. Joe ain't used to perlite serciety, Joe don't know nothin' put me down, Joe, like a good lad!"
I did not pursue the subject further, beyond saying that I should feel glad when the autumn came, and Lupin would be of age and responsible for his own debts. He answered: "My dear Guv., I promise you faithfully that I will never speculate with what I have not got. I shall only go on Job Cleanands' tips, and as he is in the 'know' it is pretty safe sailing." I felt somewhat relieved.
"Spoke like a true-bred gamecock, s' help me!" "I'm as right as rain physically, Old Un, but " "Talkin' o' physic, Guv," said the old man, seating himself and nodding brightly, "talkin' o' physic, the physic as set you on your pins again was love, Guv, love!" "But it so happens " "Wait a bit, I ain't done, Guv!
"Guv," cried the Old Un, seizing Ravenslee's right hand, boxing glove and all, and shaking it to and fro, "you're a credit to us, you do us bloomin' proud strike me pink, ye do! 'Ere 's Joe 'ammered you an' 'ammered you look at your bloomin' chest lumme!
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