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He sat before her now a frank, determined-looking young Englishman, in whose honest eyes admiration of herself could not be concealed. Indignation and surprise struggled for supremacy. "It's odd," remarked Mr. Wilks, who had a happy knack at times of saying the wrong thing, "it's odd you should 'ave 'appened to come just at the same time as Miss Kate did."
I didn't 'ear wot she said, but I saw her shake her 'ead, and a'most direckly arterwards she was marching away between the two policemen with the crowd follering and advising 'er where to kick 'em. I was a bit worried at fust not about her and then I began to think that p'raps it was the best thing that could have 'appened.
Her father, Cap'n Butt, was a widow-man, and 'e used to bring her with 'im, partly for company and partly because 'e could keep 'is eye on her. Nasty eye it, was, too, when he 'appened to be out o' temper. "I'd often took a bit o' notice o' the gal; just giving 'er a kind smile now and then as she sat on deck, and sometimes when 'er father wasn't looking she'd smile back.
"See you to-morrer," said Bert, though he was destined, as a matter of fact, to see much of the habitable globe before he saw her again. Bert began to light matches from a borrowed boxful, and search for a half-crown that still eluded him among the charred remains. His face was grave and melancholy. "I WISH that 'adn't 'appened," said Flossie, riding on with Grubb....
She was overpowered by the munificence of the gift, and poured out her gratitude copiously. "I've just recollected something," she went on. "There's a secret closet in the room where the pore woman lodged, an' last spring I 'appened to show it to 'er. It sort of took 'er fancy, and " "Did the police find it or examine it?" cried Jimmie. "No, sir. I forgot to speak of it." "Let me see it, please!
"He went off as spry as a boy, and as soon as he'd gorn the skipper started walking back'ards and for'ards agin, and raving. "'Let's 'ope as he's on'y amusing 'imself, I ses. "'Wait till you see 'er, ses the skipper; 'then you won't talk foolishness. "As it 'appened she came back with Uncle Dick that evening, to see 'im safe, and I see at once wot sort of a woman it was.
It goes at the rate of over sixty miles an hour, an' ain't just quite the train for people as is narvish though my 'usband do say it ain't more dangerous than other trains not s'much so, indeed, wich I believe myself, for there ain't nothink 'appened to my John all the eight years he have drove it." "Is sixty miles an hour very much faster than the rate of ordinary trains?" asked Emma.
He spent arf the night crawling about on all fours looking for the clothes, and four or five times old Isaac woke up from dreams of earthquakes to find Peter 'ad got jammed under 'is bed, and was wondering what 'ad 'appened to 'im. None of 'em was in the best o' tempers when they woke up next morning, and Ginger 'ad 'ardly got 'is eyes open before Isaac was asking 'im about 'is clothes agin.
"Just wot I said," grumbled one of the men. "They don't damn well think we're goin' aloft to-night, after what's happened?" asked another. "We've been up to the main royal," I answered. "The Second Mate went with us." "Wot?" said the first man. "Ther Second Mate hisself?" "Yes," I replied. "The whole blooming watch went up." "An' wot 'appened?" he asked. "Nothing," I said. "Nothing at all.
Henery Walker got into trouble for leaning over Charlie Stubbs's fence and feeding his chickens for 'im, and Sam Jones's wife had to run off 'ome to 'er mother 'arf-dressed because she had 'appened to overlay a sick rabbit wot Sam 'ad taken to bed with 'im to keep warm. "People used to stop animals in the road and try and do 'em a kindness especially when Mr.
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