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If I 'ave a weakness, Miss Susan, it's for the right word in the right place as the coster said to the devil-dodger as blowed him up for purfane swearin'. When a gen'leman hoffers me an 'a'penny, I axes him in the purlitest manner I can assume, to oblige me by givin' of it to the first beggar he may 'ave the good fort'n to meet. Some on 'em throws down the 'a'penny. Most on 'em makes it a penny.
"Anybody could see you was a gentleman," continued Miss Sellars. "Heaps and heaps of hoffers I've had hundreds you might almost say. But what I've always told 'em is, 'I like you very much indeed as a friend, but I'm not going to marry any one but a gentleman. Don't you think I was right?" I murmured it was only what I should have expected of her.
"Easy of access?" "Vot is that?" "I mean, can I and my men get at the gang without being surprised on our part?" "Vell, if I hoffers to guide you there'll be no difficulty, 'cos I knows the vay, and no mistake. But my life is to be preserved, you know. Recollect that, lieutenant." "I shall remember my word, and I will keep it in every respect.
Here sat his son, and his son's son the Lord Mayor as was and his son, my father, ladies and gents, who died in it besides, and whose son now hoffers it to the 'ighest bidder. You'll observe its antiquity, ladies an' gents. That's its beauty.
Is Maryann still with my with Mrs Osten?" "Yes, sir, she is, an' wot's more, she aint likely to quit in a 'urry. W'y, sir, that 'ooman 'as 'ad no fewer than six hoffers of marriage, an' 'as refused 'em all for love of the old lady.
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