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That house is as old as Delhi about; and there are as any galleries up above connecting with houses at the rear as there are run-holes from cellar to cellar." "Any chance for anybody down in the cellar?" "Doubt it, sir. The fire started there; the water'll do what the fire left undone. Pretty bad trap, sir, I should say, if you asked me." "No reports of escape or rescue?"
"Don't be alarmed, ladies, it's only the wash-hand basin. Knocked it over in hangin' up the coat. Nothin' smashed. It's a tin basin, you know. Look alive, lass, else the water'll git down below, for the caulkin' of these planks ain't much to boast of, an' you'll have the green-grocer up in a towering rage!"
"Would it be possible to stop it out, and in the course of time pump the vessel clear?" "Not if we'd got fifty steam pumps, sir: that water'll flow in and out and be always sweet I mean salt for she's got plates below there ripped off like sheets of writing paper. But the water won't hurt us, and the stores such as we want are all above it. There's nothing to mind there."
O, I'm bad, dochthor, dear; if you think the water'll cure me, tell me where I can get it." "You've got the pipes down your way?" "I've got the pipes, dochthor, dear but sorrow a bit of tibaccy. Do you think smoking is good for the rheumatiz?" "There's some mistake here," said the clerk; "what's that you've got in your hand?" "They tould me to bring this bit ov pasteboord here, sure."
A few days before his death his physician recommended champagne for some internal trouble. "Champagne!" exclaimed Vanderbilt with a reproachful look, "I can't afford champagne. A bottle every morning! Oh, I guess sody water'll do!" From all accounts it would seem that he diffused about him the same forbidding environment in his own house.
"That the water'll soon be warm enough for swimming," he said. To Barbara that answer seemed pleasantly indicative of a healthy nature and a healthy mind. "It's a curious thing," observed the beggar, "how many more people drown themselves when the water is nice and warm than when it is cold and inhospitable. And yet it's in the cold months that the most people receive visits from despair."
Suddenly he thrust them into the hole, and his staff thrust viciously at them as he pushed them under the ice where they would quickly rot. It was done. "Mebbe the water'll wash the blood off'n it," he exclaimed. "Mebbe." Davia's eyes looked derisively upon the giant figure as he straightened himself up. She could not understand.
Och! shure I'm only a weather-washed, worn-out old salt, 'ardly worth savin'. Go now, off wi' ye at onest. The water'll be over ye, if ye stand 'eer tin minutes longer." The three youths scrutinised each other's faces, as far as the darkness would allow them. Each tried to read in the countenances of the other two some sign that might determine him.
If Bill Murkison gets his eyes once on them bills they show him he'll never take 'em off of 'em. They offer $5 for $1, and they'll have to stick to the bargain if I tackle 'em. That's the kind of trader Bill Murkison is. Yes, I jist believe I'll drop up Chicago way and take a 5 to 1 shot on J. Smith. I guess the water'll be fine enough.
Aw, child, it isn't going to scald you. Go on now. The water'll be stone-cold in a minute. "Oh, I don't like winter for a cent. Kitchoo! There, I've gone and caught fresh cold. "I wish it would hurry up and come spring. "When the days begin to lengthen, The cold begins to strengthen." Now, you know that doesn't stand to reason. Every day the sun inches a little higher in the heavens.
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