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The butler whirled round and fixed him with a stare of haughty indignation. "Here, you keep your fingers off your betters!" he retorted angrily, for Cleek had dug a friendly elbow into his ribs. "Oh, orl right! No offence meant! Thought perhaps you wuz the boss, by the look of yer. But doubtless you ain't nuffink ter do wiv the factory at all. Private gent, I take it."
This was an attempt to render the expressive cry of the brigade; now replaced, we believe, by a tame bell. "Oy sawed free men shoyning like scandles, and Dolly sawed nuffink no, nuffink!" The little man's voice got quite sad here. Think what he had seen and Dolly had missed! Mrs. Ruth was harrowed by what the child must have suffered. She expressed her feelings to Sister Nora.
WHEN Lady Talbot leaned over the side of the big bed to awaken Dickie Harding she wished with all her heart that she had just such a little boy of her own; and when Dickie awoke and looked in her kind eyes he felt quite sure that if he had had a mother she would have been like this lady. "Only about the face," he told himself, "not the way she's got up; nor yet her hair nor nuffink of that sort."
I saw your bit in one a couple of nights ago," he said, turning to me. "What did you think of it?" I asked, anxious to hear his opinion on an article dealing with the life of his own regiment. "Nuffink much," he answered, honestly and frankly. "Everything you say is about things we all know; who wants to 'ear about them? D'ye get paid for writin' that?"
He gasped out, as clearly as he could for the speed which he had made: 'There's been murder done, Mr Pleesman, a Harab's killed a bloke. 'Mr Pleesman' gripped him by the shoulder. 'What's that? The youngster put up his arm, and ducked his head, instinctively, as if to ward off a blow. 'Leave me alone! I don't want none of your 'andling! I ain't done nuffink to you! I tell you 'e 'as!
I'll give you five shillings for it. You're not going to be fool enough to refuse an offer like that?" "I ain't goin' to be fool enough to refuse it nor yet I ain't goin' to be fool enough to take it, 'cause I'm only 'ere to see as nobody don't come in and sneak fings. I ain't got no authority to sell anyfink, and I don't know the proice o' nuffink, so there you 'ave it."
Finding none, but receiving instead a cheerful smile, she returned to the kitchen, and reported to Cook that Miss Cecilia was "nuffink less than a neroine." But as that day and the next wore on, Cecilia found it difficult to be cheerful. That she was in disgrace was very evident, Mrs.
Presently Martin came out from the news room bustling with energy and took Dean by the arm. "You specified two apaches, didn't you?" he asked, and hurried on without waiting for an answer. "One was probably the injured innocence now at the Malesherbes and cursing those sacrés Angliches, but the other lies low and says nuffink. That's the one that interests me.
That's just like you peelers, you're all the same! What do you know about me? Nuffink! This gen'leman ain't got no call to believe me, not as I knows on, it's all the same to me if 'e do or don't, but it's trewth what I'm sayin', all the same. At this point the Inspector re-appeared at the pigeon-hole. He cut short the flow of eloquence.
'Ow'm I to get the supper'm? You said as 'ow I could get it done this afternoon so as to go to church this evening. I can't do nuffink with the mincing machine gone." "I'll come and look." They searched every corner of the kitchen, then William's mother had an idea. William's mother had not been William's mother for eleven years without learning many things.
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