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"Wotcher doin' in my 'ouse?" suddenly inquired Sloppy, blinking with suspicion at Flash Kate. "Yous go 'ome, me fine lady, afore yer git yerself talked about." The woman at the door laughed loudly, and pretended to examine with keen interest a new wedding ring on her finger. "Cum 'ere, an' I'll tear yer blasted eyes out," cried the drunkard, turning on her furiously.
"No, miss," with a resigned air. "Master says I'm to go 'ome and 'ave a good night's rest that is if so be as I can get to sleep." "But who is going to drive father?" interrupted Kitty. "Master said as 'ow he'd drive hisself." Kitty remembered the weary look on her father's face, the sleepless night he had had, the long, busy day.
"Don't call Major Pendennis an old cove, if you'll 'ave the goodness, Lightfoot, and don't call me an old cove, nether. Such words ain't used in society; and we have lived in the fust society, both at 'ome and foring. We've been intimate with the fust statesmen of Europe. When we go abroad we dine with Prince Metternitch and Louy Philup reg'lar.
It appeared as if he were anxious to make a personal matter of it, and in proof of this he sternly demanded of his rival what he had done with his fare. "You don't think I've ate him, do yer?" asked that worthy. "What's it got to do with me what a fare does? I set 'im down, same as I should do you, and now I am on my way 'ome.
He was a nice-looking animal, but one dog is much the same as another to me, and if I 'ad one ten years I don't suppose I could pick it out from two or three others. I took it off 'ome with me when I left at six o'clock next morning, and tied it up in my yard.
"Ah! but it weren't no good, sir," returned Adam, "because she sez as 'ow your 'ome being in America, you couldn't really need the furnitur', nor yet want the furnitur', an' blest if she wasn't talkin' of handing you the money back again." "Hum!" said Bellew.
"I I I come 'ome unexpected," he stammered. "But what are you doing?" panted Mrs. Teak, in a rising voice. "I I was passing your door," said Mr. Chase, "passing your door to go to my room to to 'ave a bit of a rinse, when " "Yes," said Mrs. Teak. Mr. Chase gave Mr. Teak a glance the pathos of which even the soot could not conceal.
"Peter," said the Ancient, after we had gone a little way, "Peter, I do 'opes as you aren't been an' gone an' rose my Prue's 'opes only to dash 'em down again." "I can but do my best, Ancient." "Old Un," said Simon, "'tweren't Peter as rose 'er 'opes, 'twere you; Peter never said nowt about bringin' Jarge 'ome "
Then, as the ingenious ruse occurred to him, a flood of language rose to his lips and would not be dammed, though everything else was. "Gone and hogged all the supper, did you!" he growled. "H'it's a nice state of affairs, when a man comes 'ome from a 'ard day's work to a h'empty table."
When I said I had 'ad enough, 'e contradicted me and kept on, but he got tired of it at last, and, arter telling me wot he would do if I ever walked 'is wife out agin, they went off like a couple o' love-birds. By the time I got 'ome next morning my eyes was so swelled up I could 'ardly see, and my nose wouldn't let me touch it.
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