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It's curious to me sometimes when I look round at you chaps, seeing you going about 'appy and comfortable, and knowing all the time 'orrible things that is going to 'appen to you. Sometimes it gives me the fair shivers." "Horrible things to us, slushy?" ses Charlie, staring. "Yes," ses the cook, nodding. "I never was on a ship afore with such a lot of unfortunit men aboard. Never.
I tell you it took a few Northbourne men to separate them two, and when 'twas done, I don't forget the sorry sight the unfortunit' man was. There warn't no hospitals nor nothin' in them days, and the doctor he had a tough job to bring the poor furriner to, and patch him up, I tell you! 'And the bear? struck in Geoff. 'Did they do anything to the bear? 'Only shot him dead; nothin' else.
He let 'im go at last, and after first making him pay the cab-man took 'im along till they came to a public-'ouse and made 'im pay for drinks. They stayed there till nearly eleven o'clock, and then Bill set off home 'olding the unfortunit Peter by the scruff o' the neck, and wondering out loud whether 'e ought to pay 'im a bit more or not.
"You may take your oath that Captain Mendouca won't run the risk of leavin' her afloat to be picked up and took into port, where her passengers could tell what tales they liked about him and his doin's. She'll be scuttled, sir, and left to go down with all them passengers in her, the same as that unfortunit' Portugee brig was that we took the slaves out of.
It's curious to me sometimes when I look round at you chaps, seeing you going about 'appy and comfortable, and knowing all the time 'orrible things that is going to 'appen to you. Sometimes it gives me the fair shivers." "Horrible things to us, slushy?" ses Charlie, staring. "Yes," ses the cook, nodding. "I never was on a ship afore with such a lot of unfortunit men aboard. Never.
"Say, don’t you do that to me, Doc. I may be unfortunit; I’m a poor damn fool an’ I know it. But don’t tell me you’re here for your health." "I won’t repeat it, Duck," I said, smiling. "Much obliged. Now for God’s sake let’s talk business. You think you’ve got me cinched. You think you can go home an’ raise hell in the 50th while I’m doin’ time into these here trenches.
More exclamations of astonishment from the listeners, amid which Polson triumphantly concluded his gruesome narrative by adding: "Of course we couldn't do nothin', and so the poor feller were lost. And when Chips and I comed to investigate we found that the unfortunit man were Mr Masterman, he bein' the only one that was missin'!"
He let 'im go at last, and after first making him pay the cab-man took 'im along till they came to a public-'ouse and made 'im pay for drinks. They stayed there till nearly eleven o'clock, and then Bill set off home 'olding the unfortunit Peter by the scruff o' the neck, and wondering out loud whether 'e ought to pay 'im a bit more or not.
He sed he knowed the minit he gazed onto my klassic & beneverlunt fase that I'd donate librully & axed me to go over & see her, which I accordingly did. I sot down beside her and sed, "yure Sarvant, Marm! How do yer git along?" She bust in 2 teers & sed, "O Sur, I'm so retchid I'm a poor unfortunit Octoroon." "So I larn.
"Wait till you-uns has children of your own," sniffed her mother, from the assured position of maternal experience, "an’ see the infant that’s allowed to suck its thumb has the makin’s in him of a felon or a unfortunit." She rocked a slow accompaniment to her dismal, prophecy. Eudora’s eyes, big with wonder, were fixed on the crouching flank of a distant mountain. Her mother broke the silence.