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Updated: May 6, 2025
He could see very vividly the man who had asked Perkins to write to his wife ... and it seemed to him that he was still demanding of passers-by that they should write to her. "Tell 'er I'm all right," he kept on saying. "So far, any'ow!..."
"Take your time, Mr. Pyecroft." In a few moments we came to it thus "The old man was displeased. I don't deny he was quite a little displeased. With the mail-boats trottin' into Madeira every twenty minutes, he didn't see why a lop-eared Portugee had to take liberties with a man-o'-war's first cutter. Any'ow, we couldn't turn ship round for him. We drew him out and took him out to Number One.
I got caught up by them, sort of by accident, and brought over here." "From England?" "Yes from England. Way of Germany. I was in a great battle with them Asiatics, and I got lef' on a little island between the Falls." "Goat Island?" "I don' know what it was called. But any'ow I found a flying-machine and made a sort of fly with it and got here." Two men stood up with incredulous eyes on him.
An' what're sailor men doin' in Lunnon, any'ow?" "Wot most folks is doin' nowadays lookin for a job!" replied Cleek, as he gulped down the second tankard and pushed it forward again to be replenished. "Come from Southampton, we 'ave. Got a parss up to Lunnon, 'cause a pal told us there'd be work at the factories. But there weren't no work. Gawd's truf!
The houses became more frequent down the road, and he passed two other extremely wild and dirty-looking men without addressing them. One carried a gun and the other a hatchet, and they scrutinised him and his cudgel scornfully. Then he struck a cross-road with a mono-rail at its side, and there was a notice board at the corner with "Wait here for the cars." "That's all right, any'ow," said Bert.
Although the interpreter, being in a facetious mood, addressed Oblooria in English, she quite understood his significant gestures, and bent to her work with a degree of energy and power quite surprising in one apparently so fragile. "I don't like the looks o' the southern sky," said Leo, regarding the horizon with knitted brows. "Hims black 'nough any'ow," said Anders. "Hold.
'Any'ow, replied an English corporal who had been handing round half a dozen grenades, 'we ain't anyways short o' bombs. 'Ave a few to be goin' on with, and he and his party let fly. They listened with satisfaction to the bursts, and through their trench periscopes watched the smoke and dust clouds billowing from the trench opposite.
"Ah! an' Bell, Sergeant Bell... riddled they say... some one seen 'm artillery or some one!" It hung over them like a cloud. The men talked of nothing else. "Somebody's blundered," said one. "It's a pity any'ow." "It's a disgrace to the ambulance losin' men like that." And, also, it made the men nervous and unreliable. It was a shock. It may be that I have never grown up properly.
Why, the pore little home is sold up, and the children's scattered among relations, or sent out so young to work it makes yer 'art ache. But if a man dies you see it on every side, in 'Ackney the widow takes in sewin', or goes out charin', or does other people's washin' as well as 'er own, or she mykes boxes something er ruther, any'ow, that makes it possible fur 'er to keep 'er 'ome together.
But they went zip! like that! Never saw 'em no more, and nothin' come of it.... Best to keep your mouth shut, mate. In this 'ere place, any'ow." "Oh," said Cleek off-handedly, "I'm not one to blab. You needn't be afraid o' that. By the way, who's the chap with the black mustache a-stragglin' all over 'is fyce? An' the narsty eye? Saw 'im with Borkins, the man wot engaged me night before last."
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