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And my face, so to speak, was laughing on its own account till I had it hid. I tell you I was regular scared like at my luck. I jest thought that it 'ad to be kep' close and that was all. 'Treasure, I kep' whisperin' to myself, 'Treasure' and ''undreds of pounds, 'undreds, 'undreds of pounds. Whispering to myself like, and digging like blazes.
And that's what I've come for to the Manor this night, I ain't been inside the old 'ouse for this ten 'ear or more, but they's brought me, me old Josey, stiff as I am, and failin' as I am, to see ye, my dear little gel, and ask ye for God's love to save the old trees wot 'as waved in the woodland free and wild for 'undreds o' years, and wot deserves more gratitude from Abbot's Manor than killin' for long service!"
They give a woman ten years for a sight less than this. An' you'll 'ave to pay 'undreds an' 'undreds o' pounds, besides a pension to the missus. You'll see, you physickin' furriner. Where's your licence to do such? You'll catch it, I tell you!"
Suddenly one of them lifted up his voice in the plainest English, "Gawd help us!" he bellowed to the man next to him, "but we're blooming marvels! Look at those grey... gentlemen, look at them! D'ye see them? They're not going down in dozens, nor in 'undreds; it's thousands, it is. Look! look! there's a regiment gone while I'm talking to ye."
"How many women have you been intimate with all over the world, Pritch?" Pritchard blushed plum colour to the short hairs of his seventeen-inch neck. "'Undreds," said Pyecroft. "So've I. How many of 'em can you remember in your own mind, settin' aside the first an' per'aps the last and one more?" "Few, wonderful few, now I tax myself," said Sergeant Pritchard, relievedly.
There I am with 'undreds of pounds lying around my room at 'ome careless as you please, and then held up for a bloomin' match. What's gold to a man like me? But a match... there you are... that's life." He looked at Jeremy with great interest; he took in, as Jeremy realised, every detail of his personal appearance. "I like boys," he said. "'Ad two myself 'ealthy little nippers they was.
Toes!" an' all 'long that toe line yeh can git the same call to the brain. This keeps father quiet a long time, then sez 'e, 'I say, doctor, is ther' many of them nerves? ''Undreds of 'em. 'Hevery part of the body got nerves? 'Yes. 'Hankles? calves? shins? 'Yes, all got nerves. 'Well, doctor, sez father, quite triumphant, 'w'en yeh cut through hankles, shins, an' heverythin', all them nerves begin to shout, don't they? 'Yes, sez the doctor, not seein' w'ere father was at.
"Gawd help us!" he bellowed to the man next to him, "but we're blooming marvels! Look at those gray ... gentlemen, look at them! D'ye see them? They're not going down in dozens nor in 'undreds; it's thousands, it is. Look! look! there's a regiment gone while I'm talking to ye." "Shut it!" the other soldier bellowed, taking aim, "what are ye gassing about?"
The prizefighter smiled an affirmative. "Well, I don't buy things on trust. You should know me better than to try on such a game with me." "I know you for what you are, Sir Charles, and that is a noble, slap-up Corinthian. But if I was to use this against you, d'ye see, it would be worth 'undreds in my pocket.
They went through a town so fast, the old man he says, 'What house was that we just passed, he says. At last they come to the top of the big 'ill, and there's the tracks of the big car goin' straight down ahead of 'em. "D'you know that road? It's all cut out of the side of the mountain, and there's places where if she was to side-slip you'd go down 'undreds of thousands of feet.
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