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"Is this house let?" he inquired of a man who was deliberately stirring a pail of shiny whitewash. The plasterer nodded. "Seems so," he admitted. "It's been empty long enough." Burton looked around him a little vaguely. "You all seem very busy," he remarked. "Some bloke from the country's taken the 'ouse," the man grumbled, "and wants to move in before the blooming paint's dry.
I'm as good an American as any one, and I say what I please." "You were engaged as an English footman. I distinctly told you that at the intelligence office when I engaged you. You may be as American as you please on your days out, but while you are on duty in this 'ouse, you've got to be as English as I am, or " "Oh, I can drop 'em as well as any one, Mr. Diggs," said Hughes scornfully. "'Ulloa!
If that's your sort, don't you come here; for a wickeder 'ouse, or an 'ouse as you got to work harder in o' Sundays, no one won't easily find in this here west end." With these words she panted up the last few steps, immediately at the top of which was the room sought. It was a very small one, scarcely more than holding the two beds.
You perwerse creetur! exclaimed one of the vixenish ladies. 'Drive to the 'ouse with the yellow door, cabmin. Upon this the cabman, who in a sudden effort to pull up at the house with the green door, had pulled the horse up so high that he nearly pulled him backward into the cabriolet, let the animal's fore-legs down to the ground again, and paused.
"It 'ud give me the creeps to sleep in the 'ouse with all that money," she remarked, "after readin' in the paper as 'ow burglars are passionate fond of silver, an' 'avin' no reg'lar 'ours for callin', like to drop in when least expected." She noted with satisfaction that Pinkey changed colour, and shook the creases out of her skirt. "Well, I must be goin'," she added.
He was one o' these 'ere fust-class 'ousepainters that can go to sleep on a ladder holding a brush in one hand and a pot o' paint in the other, and by the time he 'ad finished painting the 'ouse it was ready to be done all over agin.
All the London expresses stop there, but they don't all stop at Selby or at Doncaster. And there's no road bridge over the Ouse nearer than Selby in any case." "Many thanks," responded the lady. "Then," she went on, looking at her driver, "you will go on to York that is how far?" she added, favouring Allerdyke with a gracious smile. "Very far?"
Freeman admits, were probably spared in large numbers. Even of the men, many doubtless became slaves to the Saxon lords; while others maintained themselves in isolated bands in the Weald. To this day the Euskarian type of humanity is not uncommon among the Sussex peasantry, and all the rivers still bear the Celtic names of Arun, Adur, Ouse, and Calder.
When I was at sea I was at sea, and when I was ashore I was with you." "Did you use to go down to the ship to see 'im off?" ses the woman. "No," ses my wife. "I'd something better to do." "Neither did I," ses the woman. "P'raps that's where we both made a mistake." "You get out of my 'ouse!" ses my missus, very sudden. "Go on, afore I put you out." "Not without my Bill," ses the woman.
"The seal then, My Lord Prior. I think that is the next matter." The Prior rose and lifted it from the table. Chris caught the gleam of the brass and silver of the ponderous precious thing in his hand the symbol of their corporate existence engraved, as he knew, with the four patrons of the house, the cliff, the running water of the Ouse, and the rhyming prayer to St. Pancras.
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