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Thereafter he was aware of faint cries and shouts, of a rushing patter like rain among leaves, and of a voice speaking in his ear. "Right about face, march! Easy does it! mind me 'ook, sir, the p'int's oncommon sharp like. By your left wheel! Now two steps up, sir that's it! Now three steps down, easy does it! and 'ere we are. A cheer, sir, now water and a sponge!"
"Straight or not, you won't get no change over this counter, so there you've the straight tip. Now sling yer 'ook, Slimy, an' get it somewhere else." "If you've any accusion to make " "Hold yer noise! What's he ordered, Liz?" "Pot o' old six," answered the girl. "Got sixpence, Slimy?" "No, I ain't, Mrs. Sprowl," muttered the creature. "I've got arf a suvrin." "Then go an' get change for it.
I returned with the articles in time to hear the Cockney hinting broadly that there was a mystery about him, that he might be a gentleman's son gone wrong or something or other; also, that he was a remittance man and was paid to keep away from England "p'yed 'ansomely, sir," was the way he put it; "p'yed 'ansomely to sling my 'ook an' keep slingin' it."
She fairly ran into Jim, who was being pulled into the house by the boy. "'Ook, Mamma! 'Ook! I found a Daddy! He says he be my Daddy if you let him. Please let him. I want a Daddy, an' I like him. Please!" Jim blushed and trembled and lifted his eyes appealingly, while Mary stood white and still watching him in a sort of helpless terror. The child moved on to his wagon.
Simmons hadn't five pounds, he hadn't even fivepence, and he said so. "An' I wouldn't think to come between a man an' 'is wife," he added, "not on no account. It may be rough on me, but it's a dooty. I'll 'ook it." "No," said Ford, hastily, clutching Simmons by the arm, "don't do that. I'll make it a bit cheaper. Say three quid come, that's reasonable, ain't it?
"Le Polisson, of Brest sixteen light guns, and about a hundred men." "Do you know anything of the ships to windward?" "Nothing, at all; but I suppose them to be French." "Pray, sir, why do you sup um um ook ook " The distance prevented my hearing more. Away went the sloop, steadying her bow-lines; the call piping belay, as each sail was trimmed to the officer of the deck's fancy.
When pretty nigh the surface, just near'a large dome of brain coral, a long spotted fish shot out and seized the chub, swallowin' the 'ook into the bargain." "Did they have a strong line?" Colin asked. "A moray is a powerful fish, isn't he?" "'E's all muscle and teeth," the keeper answered.
Vell, all at once I'll spot a cove or covess vith vot I calls a capital mug, I'll follow that cove or covess, and by 'ook or by crook I'll find out that there cove or covess's name, and down it goes in my little book, d' ye see?" and he tapped the little book. "But surely," said Barnabas, "surely they don't all prove to be murderers?"
'Mind when ye get a chance and 'ook a knife in his kidneys, and do it neat and clean; and then there'll be only three of us to cut this pile 'ere three ways me, Bucky, and yer own self, Jim. "That's what 'e said, Reddy; strike me blind! Like you did, I says I'll do it. Ye see his gyme? We'd do for each other in a fight, and so take the job off 's 'ands.
Though she was now a veteran in scenes of death and disaster, she realized that fate had erred in choosing her as a heroine. Coke and Watts drew near. "Dom Wot's-'is-name wasn't long in gettin' busy," chuckled Coke. "Gev' her a dose of the Andromeda's physic, eh? I'm sorry the blighters managed to 'ook it."
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