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There was another shriek, and another, and then a shrill voice cried, 'Is Simmun below! At the same moment a lean neck was stretched over the parapet, and Miss Miggs, indistinctly seen in the gathering gloom of evening, screeched in a frenzied manner, 'Oh! dear gentlemen, let me hear Simmuns's answer from his own lips. Speak to me, Simmun. Speak to me!
Go to bed directly, cried the two women together. Mr Tappertit stood upon his feet, and pushing his chair away to show that he needed no assistance, answered, swaying himself to and fro, and managing his head as if it had no connection whatever with his body: 'You spoke of Miggs, sir Miggs may be smothered! 'Oh Simmun! ejaculated that young lady in a faint voice. 'Oh mim! Oh sir!
'Very good, said Mr Tappertit, fetching a long breath when the tale was told, and rubbing his hair up till it stood stiff and straight on end all over his head. 'His days are numbered. 'Oh, Simmun! 'I tell you, said the 'prentice, 'his days are numbered. Leave me. Get along with you. Miggs departed at his bidding, but less because of his bidding than because she desired to chuckle in secret.
Don't you be too inquis-eye-tive.... No I don't mind tellin' of ye, if it's partic'lar. I'm going to drop round to the Station to shake hands with young Simmun Rowe they've made him Inspector there he's my old pal Jerky Rowe's son I knew from a boy. Man under forty, as I judge. But he won't let me swaller up his time, trust him! Tell Jerry I'll jine him at half-after nine, the very latest."
Simmun and gentlemen, I've been locked up here for safety, but my endeavours has always been, and always will be, to be on the right side the blessed side and to prenounce the Pope of Babylon, and all her inward and her outward workings, which is Pagin.
Here they are! cried Miggs, clapping her hands, and issuing forth to help her mistress to alight. 'Bring a chair, Simmun. Now, an't you the better for it, mim? Don't you feel more yourself than you would have done if you'd have stopped at home? Oh, gracious! how cold you are! Goodness me, sir, she's a perfect heap of ice. 'I can't help it, my good girl.
'Oh bother! said Mr Tappertit. 'Here. Catch hold of her, somebody. Lock her up again; she never ought to have been let out. 'My Simmun! cried Miss Miggs, in tears, and faintly. 'My for ever, ever blessed Simmun! 'Hold up, will you, said Mr Tappertit, in a very unresponsive tone, 'I'll let you fall if you don't. What are you sliding your feet off the ground for?
'Simmun and gentlemen, I'm locked up in the front attic, through the little door on the right hand when you think you've got to the very top of the stairs and up the flight of corner steps, being careful not to knock your heads against the rafters, and not to tread on one side in case you should fall into the two-pair bedroom through the lath and plasture, which do not bear, but the contrairy.
'But Miggs, cried Mr Tappertit, getting under the lamp, that she might see his eyes. 'My darling Miggs Miggs screamed slightly. That I love so much, and never can help thinking of, and it is impossible to describe the use he made of his eyes when he said this 'do for my sake, do. 'Oh Simmun, cried Miggs, 'this is worse than all. I know if I come down, you'll go, and
What she thought about, going home; and whether the coach-maker held as favourable a place in her meditations as he had occupied in the morning, is unknown. They reached home at last at last, for it was a long way, made none the shorter by Mrs Varden's grumbling. Miggs hearing the sound of wheels was at the door immediately. 'Here they are, Simmun!
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