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"Name yer pizons, boys, an' get outside 'em, wishin' all good luck to R'yal Straight; R'yal Straight bein' the name o' this yer stone given by Thomas D. Hesquire, original diskiverer an' present perprietor." Satan, the one cat and only domestic pet of the camp, saw that there was a general treat going on, and bustling up for his drink took a can of condensed milk at six shillings.
You can't lay them by to live on in your old age." "Alas!" Kate cried, "I have no money except these few shillings." "Give them over here, then." He put them in his trouser pocket beside the other one. "That's all right, missy," he said, in a beery whisper. "I won't say anything now to Muster Girdlestone about this job. He'd be wild if he knew, but mum's the word with William Stevens, hesquire.
"Why is it that you treat me in this cruel way?" "Ah, now we come to business," he said, in a satisfied way, crossing his legs, and blowing great wreaths from his pipe. "This is more like reason. Who am I? says you. Well, my name's Stevens Bill Stevens, hesquire, o' Claxton, in the county o' Hants. I've been an A.B. in the navy, and I've got my pension to show it.
I've been in the loon'cy business, too was second warder in the suicide ward at Portsmouth for more'n two year. I've been out of a billet for some time, and Muster Girdlestone he came to me and he says, 'You're William Stevens, hesquire? says he. 'I am, says I. 'You've had experience o' loonies? says he. 'I have, says I. 'Then you're the man I want, says he.
That man there is George Lattaker, Hesquire, and let him deny it if he can." George got up. "I haven't the least desire to deny it, Voules." "Mr. Voules, if you please." "It's true," said George, turning to the Count. "The fact is, I had rather a foggy recollection of what happened last night.
'Not for ten hundred golden guineas, I answers, 'would William Stevens, hesquire, do what he didn't ought to." "Very proper, very proper indeed," said Girdlestone approvingly. "Every man in his own station has his own duties to fulfil, and he will be judged as he has fulfilled them, well or ill. I shall see that you are no loser by your staunchness." "Thank ye, guv'nor."
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