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It's hodd," said Beck, musingly, "but the more I lines it, the vorse I sleeps." Percival laughed, but there was melancholy in his laughter; something in the forlorn, benighted, fatherless, squalid miser went to the core of his open, generous heart. "Do you ever read your Bible," said he, after a pause, "or even the newspaper?" "I does not read nothing; cos vy?
Dear, dear! a hodd child she was, so silent in her ways and all, but I was wonderful taken up with her, so domesticated she was surprising. 'And what about the little boy? said Stephen. 'Ah, that pore boy! sighed Mrs Bunch.
But here where are the vacant cottages for your four families? Hodd with his five children, Tibbins with eight or nine, Mrs. West and her widow daughter and three children, and the Porters with a bedridden father? 'They are dreadfully overcrowded. Is there really no place? 'Probably not nearer than those trumpery new tenements at Bonchamp.
I 'eard a fellow as vos there say, that they used to steal hoff at night and 'av hodd sport and leave none to tell the tale in the mornin. Glorious, vosn't it? And then ven they gathered hup the svag, they made it hall right vith the sentries and sometimes vith the hofficers themselves."
Never the same young lady again nor yet she never won't be neither, not if she lives to a nundered. "Nothing very hodd about that?" says you. Wait a bit. Next time, it was the kitching copper as had got all furred up like. I tinkered that up to rights, and come away. Well, afore I'd even made out my account, that identical copper blew up and scalded the cook dreadful!
The voice was masculine, carefully modulated, decidedly elegant. A different sort of voice gave answer: "'E said, sir ... mile, but knowing the hodd way they count distances away from the cities, sir, I'm 'ardly 'oping to see it under two mile hif that." Varney idly turned.
Step up while there air a few tab-lets left of this in-im-a-table art-tickle unsold. 'Who's that guy in the soap-trade? asked one policeman of another one as they passed along Lowther Arcade and saw the man whose conversation is reported above. 'He's a deep one, hi know, said the one asked. ''Is name is Grayle, Louis Grayle. There's hodd stories 'bout 'im, werry hodd.
"Oh!" remarked Mivins, who only half understood the meaning of the explanation, "'ow very hodd. But can you tell me, Mr Saunders, 'ow it is that them 'ere hicebergs is made? Them's wot I don't comprehend no 'ow." "Ay," replied Saunders, "there has been many a wiser head than yours puzzled for a long time aboot icebergs. But if ye'll use yer eyes you'll see how they are formed.
It's hodd," said Beck, musingly, "but the more I lines it, the vorse I sleeps." Percival laughed, but there was melancholy in his laughter; something in the forlorn, benighted, fatherless, squalid miser went to the core of his open, generous heart. "Do you ever read your Bible," said he, after a pause, "or even the newspaper?" "I does not read nothing; cos vy?
'Here's a deputation from her tenant, James Hodd, with "Please, sir, I wants to know if 'tis allowed to turn folks out of their houses as they've paid rent for reg'lar with a week's notice, when they pays by the year." 'You don't mean it! exclaimed Mrs. Merrifield and Susan together. 'Poor old Mrs. West, said the mother. 'And all the Tibbinses! exclaimed Susan.
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