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Cutts for coming to do away with it all. "Any help I can give you shall be given cheerful," he ses to the keeper. "When I want your help I'll ask you for it," ses Mr. Cutts. "Thankee," ses Bob Pretty. "I on'y 'ope I sha'n't get my face knocked about like yours 'as been, that's all; 'cos my wife's so partikler." "Wot d'ye mean?" ses Mr. Cutts, turning on him. "My face ain't been knocked about."
Then he turns back to the compartment full of people, and says: "No 'ope." The thin man makes a last effort. "Well, they backed him last night, anyhow." "Who backed 'im?" says the Oracle. "In Tattersall's," says the thin man. "I'm sure," says the Oracle; and the thin man collapses. On arrival at the course, the Oracle is in great form.
'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished. But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery go! Well, the old man he liked that speech, and he mighty soon got it so he could do it first-rate.
Turning about, I espied him on his knees, examining the contents of the dead man's pockets with a methodical precision that revolted me. "Of mine?" said I, shuddering. "Your werry own, sir. 'T was one o' the reasons as I brought you along I do 'ope Windictiveness here ain't destroyed it ah, 'ere it is, Mr. Werricker, sir though the seal's broke, you'll ob-serve."
He seemed to enjoy them, however, and was soon involved in a spree at which both Hester and I laughed heartily. "This herring ain't extra good, sir, but I 'ope it won't go ag'in' ye," said Mrs. Chaffin to Rayel, as we sat down to the table. He seemed in doubt for a moment as to what it would be proper to say in reply to this well-intended remark.
A single, but very resolute knock at the street door, sounding quite through the house, stopped all further ebullition, and Benjamin, slipping out, held a short conversation with someone in the street, and returned. "What's happened now, Binjimin?" inquired Mr. Jorrocks, with anxiety on his countenance, as the boy re-entered the room; "the 'osses arn't amiss, I 'ope?" "Please, sir, Mr.
Get to the point, said Edward. James began. 'We've come, minister, six God-fearing men, and me spokesman, being deacon; and we 'ope as good will come of this meeting, and that the Lord'll bless our endeavour. And now, I think, maybe a little prayer? 'I think not. 'As you will, minister. There are times when folk avoid prayer as the sick avoid medicine.
He pushed Bill Chambers's 'at over his eyes a thing Bill can't abear and arter filling 'is pipe agin from Sam Jones's box he got up and went. "Mind you," ses Bill Chambers, looking round, "if 'e comes back and ses somebody 'as taken his hamper, nobody knows nothing about it." "I 'ope Henery Walker 'as got it all right," ses Dicky Weed. "When shall we know?"
By the time we'd got our senses agin the conjurer was a'most out o' sight, and Bob Pretty was explaining to John Biggs wot a good job it was 'is watch 'adn't been a gold one. "That's wot comes o' trusting a foreigner afore a man wot you've known all your life," he ses, shaking his 'ead. "I 'ope the next man wot tries to take my good name away won't get off so easy.
"I may take it then that you did not see the play and surprise my secret until after his death?". Trewlove drew himself up with fine reserve and dignity. "There is such a thing, sir, I 'ope, as Libbaty of Conscience." With that I let him go.
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