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"I say, guvner, you hadn't no call fur to call me cheeky; I didn't mean no cheek, only I likes the look of yer; it seems fur to warm a chap." Lawrence stopped this time and looked curiously at the boy, at the odd, keen eyes gazing at him so hungrily. "You are a strange lad if you are not a cheeky one," he said. "Why do you like the look of me?"
No, no, guvner, I appreciate your big heart, but I'm happy with my little bit of fish and a rabbit in the pot why should I set up to be an honest workingman and get dissatisfied with my life?" His refusal of my wellintentioned offer did not irk me.
He wondered what the boy meant by it, and at first, naturally connected the idea of coppers with Wikkey's devotion; but he soon came to see that it went deeper than that, for with a curious instinct of delicacy which the lad would probably have been quite unable to explain to himself, he would sometimes hang back as Lawrence reached the pavement, and nod his funny "Good night, guvner," from midway on his crossing, in a way that precluded any suspicion of mercenary motives.
And why? Why but because the intruders did not wish the sound of closing to be audible to her or those within? He reminded himself that it was all none of his affair, decided to pass on and go his ways in peace, and impulsively, swinging about, marched straight away for the unclosed door. "'Old'ard, guvner!" Kirkwood halted on the cry, faltering in indecision.
I likes to look at a little bit of sky or hear a meadowlark or smell a flower or two, but poaching ! Really, guvner, you hadnt ought to take away a man's character." I thought it a shame so sturdy and amusing a fellow should have to eke out his living so precariously. "I'll tell you what I'll do," I said.
Should he take the plunge, or withdraw? Synchronously he was conscious that a man's figure had detached itself from the shadows beneath the nearest portico and was drawing nearer, with every indication of haste, to intercept him. "'Ere now, guvner, yer mykin' a mistyke. You don't live 'ere." "How do you know?" demanded Kirkwood crisply, tightening his grip on his stick.
What could be more philanthropic than I produce my bit of string and help him out? Aint that a proper Christian attitude, guvner?" "Possibly; but what, may I ask, makes your pockets bulge so suspiciously? Is that another philanthropy?" "Accident, guvner, sheer accident.
To which Wikkey promptly returned in the shrill, aggressively aggrieved voice of the London Arab: "I reckon it don't do you no harm, guvner; a cat may look at a king." Lawrence laughed, and threw him a copper, saying, "You are a cheeky little fellow," and went on his way.
For a moment I thought him one of the gamekeepers and nodded, but his quick look and furtive gestures instantly revealed him as a poacher. "Youre trespassing, you know," I said with some severity. "I know, guvner," he admitted readily, "but I wasnt doing no harm; just looking at this bit of water here and listening to the birds." "With a fishingline in your hands?"
Granby; but I hope you and I will be good friends yet;" then drawing another chair up to the fire he began to talk to his cousin. Presently the high voice spoke again "Why mustn't I, guvner?" "Why mustn't you what?" "Talk like that of him?" pointing to Reginald. "Because it's not civil. Mr. Trevor is my friend, and I am very fond of him." "Must I like everythink as you like?"
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