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Good engygements ain't chasing nobody abart the streets these dyes, and there's that many girls now as can do a song and a dance and a recitashing " Three days passed, four days, five days, six days, a week, and still no word from Mr. Josephs. Glory called on him again. He counselled patience. It was the dead season at the theatres and music halls, but if she only waited
Marylebone Work'us fer me an' the missis an' the kids. My keb gone, my best hoss killed, an' a pore old crock left, worth abart enough to pay the week's stablin'. I see a lot, I do." The man was telling the truth. He was blear-eyed with misery. Brett looked at Hume, and the latter rang a bell. He asked the waiter for a pen and ink.
'Scroggins, 'e sez, ''ave all o' them there buoys wot I wus talkin' abart in the sick bay by eleven o'clock punctual. Scroggins seems a bit startled. 'In the sick bay, sir? 'e arsks. 'Yus, sez Number One, grinnin' to 'isself and winkin' at the chief buffer. 'In the sick bay by six bells sharp. 'Werry good, sir, sez Scroggins, tumblin' to wot wus up, 'cos 'e saw the doctor standin' there.
Afore we wus sent on leaf we wus all cautioned special not to git talkin' abart the Service wi' civvies." I suppose I did look rather unlike a member of His Majesty's land forces, for I was wearing plain clothes and had only come out of hospital four days before, after being wounded for the second time on the western front. "Sorry I spoke, sir," he apologised.
This bird's bit me in the finger, and 'ere's the finger, if you don't believe me and I'm going to twist 'is ruddy neck, if all the perishers with white spats in London come messing abart and mucking around, so you I take them white spats of yours 'ome and give 'em to the old woman to cook for your Sunday dinner!"
An' not arf bad neither, said Private Robinson approvingly. 'Though I dunno wot it's all abart. Now s'pose we gives 'em another.
"I can't understand," I went on. "I never heard anything about it." "Who'd yer got ter tell yer abart it?" he asked. I made no reply to his question; indeed, I had scarcely comprehended it, for the problem of what I ought to do in the matter had risen again in my mind. "I've a good mind to go aft and tell the Second Mate all I know," I said.
"'Ain't yer just been there?" asked the men. "People seem fair silly about the common," said the woman over the gate. "What's it all abart?" "Haven't you heard of the men from Mars?" said I; "the creatures from Mars?" "Quite enough," said the woman over the gate. "Thenks"; and all three of them laughed. I felt foolish and angry. I tried and found I could not tell them what I had seen.
You can't storm ther walls, Or take ther gates at ther point of ther baynit, for ther ramparts are guarded 'nd ther sentries never sleep. When ther bugles sound ther larst reville you will ever 'ear, 'nd ther colonel, whose name is Death, gives the order ter march, you'll have nothink to fear abart, if yer bandoliers are full o' faith 'nd yer rifles are sighted with good works.
He saw that flags were flying on the Mansion House and on the Bank, and, pushing up the trap of the hansom, he asked if anything unusual was going on. "Lawd, down't ye know what day it is terday, sir? It's the dear ole laidy's birthday. That's why all the wimming's going abart in their penny carridges. Been through a hillness, sir?" "Yes, something of that sort." "Thort so, sir."
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