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"What?" came in a thunderous voice from the lower berth, and Jenkins, craning her head turtle-wise over the edge of her bed, called back in a tremulous squeak: "Hi honly said as 'ow hit were a bad 'abit, ma'am!" "Hump!" was the answer. "See that you don't do it yourself. I've got my umbrella here ready to punch you if you do." A titter ran from seat to seat.
"Were you expecting me?" he asked. "No one!" cried the man, with a shrug and opening of the hands. "But hall the travellers they stop with Bird, and where there are honly two rooms, 'eat with one stove between the walls, their room is always ready. Do me the pleasure!" He set the door open, and bowed Northwick in.
Said Raoul, with an unsteady utterance, as he slammed the drawer: "H-h-dat makes me dat I can't 'elp to laugh w'en I t'ink of dat fool yesse'dy w'at want to buy my pigshoe for honly one 'undred dolla' ha, ha ha, ha!" He laughed almost indecorously. "Raoul," said Frowenfeld, rising and closing his eyes, "I am going back for my hat.
Sweater made no reply. 'I've kept the fire agoin' in hall the rooms has you told me, sir, resumed Crass after a pause. 'I think you'll find as the place is nice and dry, sir; the honly places as is a bit damp is the kitchen and scullery and the other rooms in the basement, sir, but of course that's nearly halways the case, sir, when the rooms is partly hunderground, sir.
Brimberly, mopping himself with a very large, exceeding white handkerchief, "if you honly will, sir!" "No, Brimberly, no it would only distress you, besides hark! their song is ended, and rather abruptly I rather fancy they have fallen down the terrace steps." "And I 'opes," murmured Mr. Brimberly fervently, "I do 'ope as they've broke their necks!"
'But of course it don't matter so much about the basement, sir, because it's honly the servants what 'as to use it, sir, and even down there it'll be hall right hin the summer, sir. One would scarcely think, from the contemptuous way in which he spoke of 'servants' that Crass's own daughter was 'in service', but such was the case.
An' honly last night 'e was in his cookhouse with some blighter by the name of Grant when the shells came along, and this fellow must have 'ad a streak of yellow for he promised to 'elp Scotty with the meal, but bolted like a bullet at the first shell." "How did he come to be down here?" I asked. "Wy, he got relieved." "Where is he now?" "Hover in the dugout."
Looking back over all them years, I want to stand hup and testify right 'ere to the best friend of the sailorman, bar none, and p'r'aps the honly one he ever truly 'ad and that's 'Ope, God bless her!"
"H'I cooked a boar's 'ead for 'is Royal 'Ighness King Charles when 'e visited Baingletop 'All as which was the finest 'e hever taisted, so 'e said, hand 'e'd 'ave knighted me hon the spot honly me sex wasn't suited to the title.
That is, I should say, after the first minute." "Just what I say," he replied. "Another thing don't it strike you as bein' bloomin' queer about Tom nearly comin' down by ther run, an' then this?" I nodded. "It would have been all hup with Tom, if it hadn't been for ther gasket." He paused. After a moment, he went on again. "That was honly three or four nights ago!" "Well," said Plummer.
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