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That car had also been pulled up; within it Allerdyke saw a woman, closely wrapped in furs. "What is it, Gaffney?" he asked, letting down his own window and leaning out. "Wants to know which is the best way to get across the Ouse, sir," answered Gaffney. "I tell him there's two ferries close by one at Booh, the other at Langrick but there'll be nobody to work them at this hour.
"Whenever you move," she said, "you'll have to leave this delightful little garden behind; it won't fit out of these quaint surroundings." "Ah! We won't want that any mo'!" They pressed on. "That 'ouse acrozz street," said Mme. De l'Isle, "I notiz there the usual sign." "Ah, yes, yes! 'For Sale or Rent'; tha'z what always predominate' in that poor vieux carré. But here is my sizter. Corinne, Mrs.
"Come 'ome kveek; yo' 'ouse ees hall burn'!" "W'at!" cried Patrick. "MONJEE!" And he drove the canoe ashore, leaped out, and ran up the bank toward the village as if he were mad. The other men followed him, leaving me with the boys to unload the canoes and pull them up on the sand, where the waves would not chafe them. This took some time, and the boys helped me willingly.
'The 'ouse with the yellow door, cabman. But after the cabriolet had dashed up, in splendid style, to the house with the yellow door, 'making, as one of the vixenish ladies triumphantly said, 'acterrally more noise than if one had come in one's own carriage, and after the driver had dismounted to assist the ladies in getting out, the small round head of Master Thomas Bardell was thrust out of the one-pair window of a house with a red door, a few numbers off.
Three miles to the west from here is the great river you call the Ouse, it is on the other side of that where we dwell. None of us live on this side of that river. Three hours' walk north from here is a smaller river that runs into the great one. At the point where the two rivers join you will cross the Ouse, and then journey west in boats for a day; that will take you near the land we speak of."
''Ow can I? sez I. ''Ere'm I hout of a job these six months, lookin' fer work every dye an' carn't find it. Sezee, 'Come an' see me this hevenin' at me home, Noine, Frognall Stryte, 'e sez, an' " "That'll do for now. You borrow a pencil and paper and write it down and I'll read it when I've got more time; I never heard the like of it. This 'ouse hasn't been lived in these two years.
Leaving Zook to his meditations, Mrs Butt retired to bed, remarking, as she extinguished the candle, that Mr Brooke was still "a-writin' like a 'ouse a fire!" We must now leap over a considerable space, not only of distance, but of time, in order to appreciate fully the result of Charlie Brooke's furious letter-writing and amazing powers of persuasion.
The path along the wall leads, in one place, through a room over the arch of a gateway, a low, thick-walled, stone apartment, where doubtless the gatekeeper used to lodge, and to parley with those who desired entrance. I found my way to the ferry over the Ouse, according to this kind Yorkist's instructions.
Durdler used to keep 'is molds and stuff up there, and then, when there was a scare of the cops, he used to pop the thing through into the next 'ouse Mrs. Jacob 'ad the room next door and the coppers used to come and sniff round, but of course there wasn't nothin' to see. Regler suck in for them. And it was useful if you was follered.
Whether he dropped into a public 'ouse on the way or not, I don't know, or whether he took the short cut to the station across the Fens isn't for me to say. But 'e 'asn't come back yet, sir!" Merriton looked anxious. Collins had a strong hold upon his master's heart. He certainly wouldn't like anything to happen to him.
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