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'That's a bit of all right, I must say, Harlow said, addressing the company generally. 'We've got to teach a b r like 'im so as 'e can do us out of a job presently by working under price. 'Well, I can't 'elp it, growled Crass. 'You know 'ow it is: 'Unter sends 'im 'ere to do paintin', and I've got to put 'im on it. There ain't nothing else for 'im to do.
"You get the car run into cover, and keep an eye on 'er till that there Pluck-'em-W'ile-yer-Wait comes a sorrowing arter 'er. Tell 'im my address is No. 5, John Street, London, and I'll settle for the bit o' damage. There's no need to bring 'is young lordship in. There's plenty o' wailin' an' gnashin' comin' to 'im, any'ow."
"'I'd trust you with untold gold, I ses, 'but not with a real quid; you're too fond of a joke, 'Arry. "We 'ad another long argyment about it, and I had to tell 'im plain at last that when I wanted to smell 'is fist, I'd say so. "'You turn up at the wharf at five minutes to seven, I ses, 'and I'll give you ten bob of it; arter you've done your business I'll give you the other.
But they're divils, miss, is them miners, when they're roused." "Did he fight hard?" "Fight? You should have seed 'im. I never seen anything like it. He was a match fer 'em all, but it was no use. They got turned agin 'im, an' 'ud listen to nothin'." "What did he have to say about the gold being found in his cabin?" asked Mr. Radhurst. "He couldn't explain, sir.
He lives with Bachelor Billy." "Is is Bachelor Billy his father?" "Naw; he ain't got no father." "Does he work with you in the mines?" "In the mines? naw; we don't work in the mines; we work in the screen-room up t' the breaker, a-pickin' slate. He sets nex' to me." "How long has he been working there?" "Oh, I donno; couple o' years, I guess. You want to see 'im? I'll go call 'im."
Arter a time I saw it was no good trying to persuade 'im, and I pretended to give way. "'I think I can get you a ship with a friend o' mine, I ses; 'but, mind, I've got to relieve your pore father's mind I must let 'im know wot's become of you. "'Not before I've sailed, he ses, very quick. "'Certingly not, I ses.
He began to think at last that there was no way out of it but that suggested by his own sergeant namely, to "blow a blinkin' 'ole in 'im," and his sergeant spoke again with the rattle of his chattering teeth playing a castanet accompaniment to his words. "If you don't mind, sir, we'd all like to fight it out and make a run for it. We're all about froze stiff."
Sharpman says I ought to have one." "And whom do you choose for your guardian?" "Gran'pa Simon, sir." Sharpman looked annoyed, and whispered something to Ralph. "I mean Simon Craft," said the boy, correcting himself. "Is Simon Craft your grandfather?" asked the judge, sternly. "Oh, no! I guess not. He made me call 'im that. I never had no grandfather; but Mr.
My grand-uncle had esteemed him but lightly, so long as Herdegen was his delight; but whereas Kunz had done good service at Venice and the master of the Im Hoff house there was dead, and our guardian himself, on whom a grievous sickness had fallen, gave himself up day and night to meet his end, he had, little by little, given over the whole business of the trade to his young nephew; thus it came to pass that Kunz, when he was but just twenty, was called upon to govern matters such as are commonly trusted only to a man of ripe years.
Perhaps he had gone back to Wyoming and had there found some one more worthy of im, some one who understood when he talked about the things he did in his laboratory, and did not just sit and listen with loving, rather bewildered eyes. Then, one night at dinner, a telegram was brought in, and she knew it was the expected word.
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