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'A pianner-forty, Samivel, rejoined Mr. Weller, in a still more mysterious manner, 'as he can have on hire; vun as von't play, Sammy. 'And wot 'ud be the good o' that? said Sam. 'Let him send to my friend, the cabinet-maker, to fetch it back, Sammy, replied Mr. Weller. 'Are you avake, now? 'No, rejoined Sam. 'There ain't no vurks in it, whispered his father.
"'Dot's all ride, said he, 'but I can't get avay. I must stay hier. Ven cost'mers com in, somebody must be hier to vait on 'em. "'That's all right, said I, 'but all your clerks are idle now. There isn't a customer in the store. Things are quiet just now. Suppose you come on down with me. "'No, I can't do dot, said the old man. 'I'd like to but I can't. Von't you breeng op a leedle stoff?
"So you be's 'ere to-day, Beck!" said a ragamuffin boy, who, pushing and scrambling through his betters, now halted, and wiped his forehead as he looked at the sweeper. "Vy, ve are all out pleasuring. Vy von't you come with ve? Lots of fun!" The sweeper scowled at the urchin, and made no answer, but began sedulously to apply himself to the crossing.
"Von't you hear me? ough! ough!" demanded Sharples, after a pause. "By all means," rejoined Quilt. "Raise your vice, and lave off coughin'," added Terence. "The long and the short o' the matter's this then," returned Sharples with dignity, "the Markis begs your acceptance o' ten guineas to drink his health." The hooting was instantaneously changed to cheers.
"Thank you," said Barnabas, smiling again, "but it's too small, you see." "That's a pity!" sighed Mr. Shrig, "still, if it von't go on, it von't. Now, as to a vepping?" "I have my stick," said Barnabas, holding it up. Mr. Shrig took it, balanced it in his grasp and passed it back with a nod of approval.
Please you von't go avay?" Such frightened entreaty lay in his request that before thinking the other replied. "No, I won't. I made you come and I'll do all I can for you. Maybe somebody will pass."
"We had an offer this very morning for all three of the animals by the American stage company." "Vas the hoffer a good one?" asked Steel Spring, in a low voice. "Yes; all that the animals are worth." "Then do you go at vonce and get the tin, and tell the coveys that you vant them taken off now this werry evening. The commissioner von't interfere vid the stage company. He knows better."
"So you did 'em," observes Mr. Bangup. "Lord bless ye, yes! it warn't to no use aggravising about it, for says I, I von't stand it, so it warn't to no manner of use harnessing of him again for me." "Come, Smith, what are you chaffing there about?" inquires the landlord, coming out with the wide-spread way-bill in his hands, "have you two insides?"
But he ain't our master any more. We can do without him." "Maybe he von't tink he can do vidout us." "He'll have to, when we get something good on the pearls. And say, I never thought you could kill any one and feel no more than I do now. Churn, if you'd been there, you'd 'a' settled his hash long before I did. The things he said to me and me your wife!
The tree swayed back and forth as though some one was moving in its centre, and from amidst the dense foliage a voice exclaimed, "Blast yer hies, vot is yer doing?" "Here, Smith," cried Fred, "there is a cockney countryman of yours up there." "Come down," we roared. "See ye hanged first, and then I von't," repeated the voice in the tree.
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