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Saunders slipped it into the lock before him. It moved with ease, backwards and forwards. "H'm! that's strange," he said, taking out the key and turning it over thoughtfully in his hand. "Yer didn't think as there were another key in this 'ouse that would open your cupboard, did yer, Bolderfield?" The old man sank weeping on a chair. He was too broken, too exhausted, to revile Bessie any more.
Magnolia blubbered away. "I 'ate to 'ear of anybody dyin'," she said. "I never been in a 'ouse before where it's 'appened, an' besides she's been good to me!" Her mind wandered off at a tangent "Any'ow," she said, wiping her eyes, "I done me best. No one can't never say I ain't done me best, an' the best can't do no more!" "Has she got any friends, Magnolia?..."
There's always room for a 'ouse that supplies good liquor. What can I hoffer you, madam? Some of our whisky has been fourteen years in bottle; or, being a lady, perhaps you'd like to try some of our best unsweetened." Esther declined, but William said they could not leave without drinking the health of the house. "Irish or Scotch, ma'am? Mr. Latch drinks Scotch."
It was not too big its population was about 10,000 so that the fields were then close at hand. The Ouse immortal stream runs through the middle of the High Street. To the east towards fenland, the country is flat, and the river is broad, slow, and deep.
For a girl not yet seventeen, Sally had a strangely abundant sense of possible utilities. All old Perce's relatives were licensed victuallers, she had learned; and one day he too would take a "little 'ouse" and stand behind his own bar, instead of behind the counter of a city restaurant. Those would be days! "'Ave a trap and go outa Sunday afternoons," Mrs. Perce said. "Oo, I wish you'd take me!"
Round the spinney; slantways across a field; up and over a gate, the girl clinging to me like a leech; down a lane; up and over another gate; and then the girl's shaking right arm was thrust over my shoulder. "There's th' ouse! 0', God, if we anna in time!" "How many are there?" "Two, sir." I pulled Sultan up at the farmyard gate, helped her down, and jumped after her.
"She's up in the attics," said she, "lookin' at some dresses left by pore Miss Loach, and there ain't a room in the 'ouse fit to let you sit down in, by reason of no chairs being about. 'Ave you come to tell me who killed mistress?" "No! I don't think the assassin will ever be discovered." "Ah, well. We're all grass," wailed Mrs. Pill; "but if you wish to see Miss Saxon, see her you will.
"You can't 'ave two queens in one 'ouse, so to speak." "But she was walking out with Teddy long ago," urged Mr. Wilks. "It's no worse now than then." "But I wouldn't be married by license," said Mrs. Silk, deftly ignoring the remark. "If I can't be asked in church in the proper way I won't be married at all." "Quite right," said Mr.
'Talking about the drains, I wonder what they're going to do about them; the 'ouse ain't fit to live in as they are now, and as for that bloody cesspool it ought to be done away with. 'So it is going to be, replied Crass. 'There's going to be a new set of drains altogether, carried right out to the road and connected with the main.
There was joints o' pork 'anging from the ceiling, two brine tubs as full as they could be, and quite a string of fowls and ducks all ready for market. "'Wot d'ye mean by coming into my 'ouse? ses Bob Pretty, blustering. 'If you don't clear out pretty quick, I'll make you. "Nobody answered 'im; they was all examining 'ands o' pork and fowls and such-like.
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