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Updated: May 6, 2025
Here you are, not much more than a babby yet any'ow hardly a man and, besides havin' bin born in thunder, lightnin', wind, an' rain, you've laid the Atlantic Cable, you've took up lightnin' as a profession or a plaything, you've helped to save the life of John Johnson, an' you've got comfortably located in a pirate's island!
It was true, as she admitted, that if you were to look closely at the lion on the extreme right of the picture, you would find he had two tails, or rather, one tail and the remnant of another which the artist had not completely obliterated. But that was a trifle. "Pictures ain't meant to be looked at close," said Miss Squibb, "an' any'ow you can't expect to 'ave everythink in this world.
'Not that John an' me would think of it for a minnit, sir, so long as you wouldn't mind our takin' the liberty; but any'ow, sir, we can't allow you to go out yourself and go to the pawnbroker's. It ain't no fit place for the likes of you, sir, a pawnbroker's ain't, in all that low company; and I don't suppose you'd rightly know 'ow much to hask on the articles, neither.
Stumpy, conscious of somehow saying the wrong thing and hurt by the shower of friendly sarcasm, shrugged his shoulders. "Orl right," he said, "take the bloomin' advantage of the tiny isle any'ow we 'ad the guts to come out yere." "That's right, kid," someone offered him a fag, "you were a democracy, a free country, long before England was ENGLAND at all, before the British Empire was dreamed of.
I wonder if the letter had anything to do with it?" "Letter?" "Yes, the one Miss Joan give our Bob to bring 'im this afternoon." "Ha!" said Mrs. Bonner. "I shouldn't be surprised." "Nor should I. I wonder what he is to her, don't you?" "No, I don't. I ain't bothered my head thinking. It ain't none of my business, Alice Betts." Alice Betts giggled. "Well, any'ow he's gone," she said, and Mrs.
Hardly had they scrambled on to the wharf when Trevannion's ganger came up. "'Morning, sir. Can I speak to you a moment? There has been trouble between O'Donnell and Peters. O'Donnell was drunk leastways so Peters says. Any'ow they got fighting and mauled each other pretty severe; in fact Peters is in hospital. Thought you'd better hear of it, sir." "Quite right," said Trevannion judicially.
Morgan Pell crumpled at the feet of Gilbert, and the bandit rushed in, the smoke still coming from his gun. "Santa Maria del Rio de Guadaloupe!" he cried. "'Ow many time I got for to kill you to-day, any'ow? Now, damn to 'ell, mebbe you stay dead a while, eh?" He looked down at the shriveled form. And as of old he called to his henchman, "Pedro!" And Pedro was there. "Si!" he said.
"Any'ow, if you're so anxious for me to go over it all again, I wanted to know the whereabouts of a niece of mine a young girl he took to 'is 'ome, some weeks ago." Mr. Vermont's eyes gleamed and his hand shook slightly with excitement, as he lit another cigar; for evidently this was the girl at whom, he remembered, Norgate had grumbled.
I never could see why you should go short, an' you all 'elpin' on the war as 'ard as you could." Brownie's indifference to national considerations where her nurselings were concerned was well known, and nobody argued with her. "Any'ow, the cake's there, an' just you try it it's as light as a feather, though I do say it." Once in the kitchen Norah and the boys went no further.
It was an interesting thought and suitable for conversation, but of no great practical utility. "Wonder 'ow I can get orf this?" he said. "Wonder if there is a way out? If not... rummy!" Further reflection decided, "I believe I got myself in a bit of a 'ole coming over that bridge.... "Any'ow got me out of the way of them Japanesy chaps. Wouldn't 'ave taken 'em long to cut MY froat. No. Still "
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