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He went to a little eating-'ouse near by, where they was in the 'abit of going, and 'ad just started on a plate of eggs and bacon when Ginger Dick and Peter came into the place with a pocket-'ankercher of 'is wot they 'ad found in the fender. "'We thought you might want it, Sam, ses Peter. "'So we brought it along, ses Ginger. 'I 'ope you're enjoying of your brekfuss, Sam.
He's had a stroke, and they don't think as he'll get over it being a man of a full 'abit of body," said Mr Elsworthy in haste, lest the Curate should break in on his unfinished speech, "makes it dangerous. I've had my fears this long time past." "A stroke," said the Curate "a fit, do you mean?
'Liza's got the needle ter-night, thet's flat, commented a third member of the team. 'I wouldn't drink if I was you, Liza, added another, with mock gravity. 'It's a bad 'abit ter git into, and he began rolling and swaying about like a drunken man.
Kemp poured it out for herself and her friend. 'I'm not in the 'abit of tikin' anythin' when I'm aht on business, she apologized, 'but just ter keep you company I don't mind if I do. 'Your 'ealth. Mrs. 'Odges. 'Sime ter you, an' thank yer, Mrs. Kemp. Liza lay still, breathing very quietly, her eyes closed. The doctor kept his fingers on her pulse.
Now, when Mr Barstowe was reading to Miss Elsa on the occasion to which I 'ave alluded, you were sitting by, trying to engage her attention. It's not the way, sir. You should leave them alone together. Let her see so much of him, and nobody else but him, that she will grow tired of him. Fondness for poetry, sir, is very much like the whisky 'abit.
David's a young kid, an' wild, an' without any good home like you an 'me 've got, an' runnin' round the Barbary Coast in Frisco, with those bloody vampires there. 'Is uncle, Morton, is afraid 'e'll get the 'abit, and wants to sen' 'im pretty far. Well, 'e remembers 'e was in Tahiti forty years before, an' 'e been dealin' in a way in vanilla with ol' Llewellyn's 'ouse 'ere.
And if," he went on with sudden heat, "she don't break her 'abit of addressing me in a tone what the 'umblest dorg would resent, I'm liable to forget my place and give her a piece of my mind. Coming round and interfering!" "Got your goat, has she?" commented Steve, interested. "She's what you'd call a tough proposition, that dame.
The smiles grew to audible mirth when she confided in a loud voice to Jenkins, stowed away in the berth above her, that she hoped to goodness nobody on board would snore and keep her awake. Jenkins's answer, floating tremulously down, convulsed the sleepy girls: "Hi 'ope not, ma'am. Hit's a bad 'abit, ma'am, halmost, you might say, han haffliction."
There's Christians I've met as couldn't do themselves much 'arm by changing their religion; and as to cleanliness, well, I've never met but one, and 'e was a washerwoman, and I'd rather 'ave sat next to 'im in a third-class carriage on a Bank 'Oliday than next to some of 'em. "Seems to me," continued Mrs. Wilkins, "we've got into the 'abit of talkin' a bit too much about other people's dirt.
"Not on no account, sir, vich ain't to be 'spected of it, seeing as it ain't got no trigger." "But heaven preserve us! why carry such a useless thing?" "Force of 'abit, sir; ye see, I've carried that theer old blunderbush for a matter of five-an'-twenty year, an' my feyther 'e carried it afore me." "But suppose we are attacked?"
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