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And something out of heaven was saying to him, 'It's the Lord's day, Jannie; they'll not get a ha'p'orth. Neither did they; but when Jan's watch said twelve o'clock midnight the pair of us were going off like rockets. Well, we hadn't been ten minutes on the water before our grapplings had hould of that anchor." There were loud cries of "Glory!"
But I had the best of the game after all! though I did lose my two rings. Confounded old cheating son of a porpus! It was doing the world a good turn, and Glenwarlock a better to Look you! what are you listening there for! Ha! ha! ha! I say, now would you hang a man, laird I mean, when you could get no good out of it not a ha'p'orth for yourself or your family?"
"You'll never go over to yonder lot," said one. "They're holding to election a soul-destroying doctrine." "A respectable man can't join himself to Cowley's gang," said another. "They're denying original sin, and aren't a ha'p'orth better than infidels." Pete took the measure of them all, down to the watch-pockets of their waistcoats.
He moved at length, laid a very gentle hand upon her shaking shoulder. "My girl my girl!" he said. "Don't take on so! I never thought as you cared a ha'p'orth for poor Rufus, though o' course I always knew as he loved you like mad." She bowed herself lower under his hand. "And now I've killed him!" she gasped forth inarticulately. "I've killed him!" "No, no, no!" protested Adam.
O'Rourke's summing up of his case was characteristic: "I 've been kilt in battle, hanged by the court-martial, put into the lock-up for life, and here I am, bedad, not a ha'p'orth the worse for it." None the worse for it, certainly, and none the better. By no stretch of magical fiction can we make an angel of him. He is not at all the material for an apotheosis.
"It's only Larry, mum," said the man, touching his forelock politely; "as dacent a lad as ever lived, when he's not in liquor; an' I've known him to be sober for days togither," he added, reflectively. "He don't mane a ha'p'orth o' harum, but jist now he's not quite in his right moind." "I should think not," said Mrs. Bilkins, turning from the speaker to Mr.
You must share it, you know. Knocks at Mrs. Jack and Jim. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you, ma'am. Exit MATTIE into MRS. CLIFFORD'S. Jim. Now, Jack, what's it to be? Jack. I believe I shall spend it in St. Martin's Lane. Jim. A ha'p'orth on it's mine, you know, Jack. Jack. Well, you do put the stunners on me! Jim. She said we wos to divide it she did. Jack. 'Taint possible. It beats my ivories.
He had not said one good word, not written one line that was not useless and vulgar; he had not done his fellows one ha'p'orth of service, but had eaten their bread, drunk their wine, seduced their wives, lived on their thoughts, and to justify his contemptible, parasitic life in their eyes and in his own, he had always tried to assume an air of being higher and better than they.
It was indeed the former mistress of the furmity tent once thriving, cleanly, white-aproned, and chinking with money now tentless, dirty, owning no tables or benches, and having scarce any customers except two small whity-brown boys, who came up and asked for "A ha'p'orth, please good measure," which she served in a couple of chipped yellow basins of commonest clay.
Every labourer who had a new smock-frock put it on, and those who had none had at least a bit of new red worsted comforter about their throats and began the day by standing at their doors in the cold morning, smoking a "ha'p'orth o' shag" in a new clay pipe, greeting each other across the village street.
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