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Hodges, earnestly, putting her hand on the other's arm. 'You tike my tip when you're queer there's nothin' like brandy for pullin' yer togither. I don't object to whisky myself, but as a medicine yer can't beat brandy. 'Well, I won't set up myself as knowin' better than you Mrs. 'Odges; I'll do wot you think right. Quite accidentally there was some in the room, and Mrs.
A pretty sound it is on the staircase to hear 'Mr. and Mrs. 'Odge and Miss 'Odges' pronounced by Billiter, who always leaves his h's out. No, no: see attorneys at your chambers, my dear but what could the poor creatures do in OUR society?" And so, one by one, Timmins's old friends were tried and eliminated by Mrs.
'Never you fear, Mrs. Kemp, it shall be done as well as if it was for my own 'usbind, an' I can't say more than thet. Mr. Footley thinks a deal of me, 'e does! Why, only the other dy as I was goin' inter 'is shop 'e says "Good mornin', Mrs. 'Odges." "Good mornin', Mr. Footley," says I. "You've jest come in the nick of time," says 'e.
'Odges if it ain't askin' too much of yer, I should look upon it as very kind if you'd go an' mike the arrangements for Liza. 'Why, certainly, Mrs. Kemp. I'm always willin' ter do a good turn to anybody, if I can. 'I want it done very respectable, said Mrs. Kemp; 'I'm not goin' ter stint for nothin' for my daughter's funeral. I like plumes, you know, although they is a bit extra.
'Mine's always been a very respectable family, an' such a thing as this 'as never 'appened before. No, Mrs. 'Odges, I was lawfully married in church, an' I've got my marriage lines now ter show I was, an' thet one of my daughters should 'ave gone wrong in this way well, I can't understand it. I give 'er a good education, an' she 'ad all the comforts of a 'ome.
'Odges, for undertikin' give me Mr. Footley every time. In the black line 'e's fust an' the rest nowhere! 'Well, thet's very strange now thet's just wot I think. Mr. Footley does 'is work well, an' 'e's very reasonable. I'm a very old customer of 'is, an' 'e lets me 'ave things as cheap as anybody. 'Does 'e indeed! Well Mrs.
"This gentleman an' myself," pointin' to another gentleman as was standin' there, "we was 'avin' a bit of an argument. Now you're a very intelligent woman, Mrs. 'Odges, and a good customer too." "I can say thet for myself," say I, "I gives yer all the work I can." "I believe you," says 'e. "Well," 'e says, "now which do you think?
'Still, one don't like 'em ter die, even if they are thet. One mustn't be too 'ard on 'em. 'Strikes me you've got a very kind 'eart, Mrs. 'Odges, said Mrs. Kemp. 'I 'ave thet; an' I often says it 'ud be better for my peace of mind an' my business if I 'adn't.
''E says just wot I've been sayin' all along; I knew she wouldn't live. And Tom burst out: 'Oh, Liza! As she retired a woman remarked: 'Mrs. 'Odges is very clever, I think. 'Yus, remarked another, 'she got me through my last confinement simply wonderful. If it come to choosin' between 'em I'd back Mrs. 'Odges against forty doctors.
It was a man, one of the upstairs lodgers. ''Ulloa! he said, ''oo's there? 'Mr. 'Odges! Strikes me, you did give me a turn; I was just goin' aht. She blushed to her hair, but in the darkness he could see nothing. 'Good night, she said, and went out.
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