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Updated: May 21, 2025
Why did I happen to be the one, just the only one, who should skate bang into Miss Lucy and be taken in and done for? And I couldn't skate, either. I was just a-learning. Pshaw! I wish I hadn't. I wish I wish. 'Bout this time, I s'pose, the fellows have near sold out. There'll be some running on the down-town cars, though, and the gents that go to business late; bankers and lawyers and such.
"And here have I," said Sloppy, in a self-reproachful tone, "been a-learning and a-learning at cabinet-making, ever so long! I'll tell you what, Miss, I should like to make you something." "Much obliged, but what?" "I could make you," said Sloppy, surveying the room, "a handy set of nests to lay the dolls in. Or a little set of drawers to keep your silks and threads and scraps in.
"And yourn's the same Bible, you're sure o' that, Master Marner the Bible as you brought wi' you from that country it's the same as what they've got at church, and what Eppie's a-learning to read in?" "Yes," said Silas, "every bit the same; and there's drawing o' lots in the Bible, mind you," he added in a lower tone.
'Missis's compliments to Miss Pinch, said the footman, suddenly appearing, and speaking in exactly the same key as before, 'and begs to know wot my young lady is a-learning of just now. 'Oh! said Mr Pecksniff, 'Here is the young man. HE will take the card. With my compliments, if you please, young man. My dears, we are interrupting the studies. Let us go.
And there was I, not ten minutes ago, preaching for all I was worth on a text I knew nothing about. God bless me, Lawford, how long we take a-learning. I'll say no more. But what an illusion. To think this this he laid a long lean hand at arm's length flat upon the table towards his friend 'to think this is our old jog-trot Arthur Lawford!
The army makes 'em wild, and they like nothing better than the job of leading off a young feller like you, as ain't never been away from home much and has allus had a mother, an' a-learning 'em to drink and swear. Keep clear of them folks, Henry. I don't want yeh to ever do anything, Henry, that yeh would be 'shamed to let me know about. Jest think as if I was a-watchin' yeh.
The army makes 'em wild, and they like nothing better than the job of leading off a young feller like you, as ain't never been away from home much and has allus had a mother, an' a-learning 'em to drink and swear. Keep clear of them folks, Henry. I don't want yeh to ever do anything, Henry, that yeh would be 'shamed to let me know about. Jest think as if I was a-watchin' yeh.
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