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There was certainly a flavor about such a highhanded proceeding. "However did you get it here?" he queried. "I got a four-wheeler and come over direct, sir. Good job I 'appened to 'ave the chaynge about me." "You came up High Street, up Piccadilly, through the Haymarket and Trafalgar Square, and into the Strand?" queried MacMaster with a relish. "Yes, sir.
"Hullo!" he cried. "Any news of the gray car?" "Yes, sir, I think so," was the somewhat surprising answer. "When I dropped you last night I got a fare to Euston. Then I took a gentleman to the Langham, an', as I felt like a snack, I pulled into the nearest cab rank. I was having some corfee an' a sandwich when I 'appened to speak about the gray car to one of ahr chaps. 'That's odd, he said.
'E'd 'ave been settled for life if 'e 'd took my advice! But Barberton was always inclined to be a little 'eadstrong. The widder in question 'appened to be a trifle par-say, I'll admit, also it was 'inted that one of 'er lower limbs was cork. But then, 'er money, sir 'er jools!" Mr. Brimberly raised eyes and hands and shook his head until his whiskers quivered in a very ecstasy.
Dowson, solemnly; "it's easy come and easy go with 'im. He's just such another as your father's cousin Bill and look what 'appened to him!" Miss Dowson shrugged her shoulders and subsiding in her chair, went on with her book, until a loud knock at the door and a cheerful, but peculiarly shrill, whistle sounded outside. "There is my lord," exclaimed Mrs.
I turned into our street, arter passing it three times, and the first thing I saw was my missus standing on the doorstep 'aving a few words with the lady next door. Then she 'appened to look up and see us, just as that silly woman was trying to walk arm-in-arm. Twice I knocked her 'and away, and then, right afore my wife and the party next door, she put her arm round my waist.
"He 'ad another go with the boat-hook arter they 'ad gone; then 'e gave it up, and sat in the boat waiting. "'This'll be a bad job for you, watchman, he ses, shaking his 'ead. 'Where was you when it 'appened? "'He's been missing all the evening, ses the cook, wot was standing beside me. 'If he'd been doing 'is dooty, the pore gal wouldn't 'ave been drownded. Wot was she doing on the wharf?
And when he spoke up Solomon the magistrate pretty near bit 'is 'ead off. Then look at the trouble they get in with their money! They come ashore from a long trip, smelling of it a'most, and they go from port to port like a lord. Everybody has got their eye on that money everybody except the sailorman, that is and afore he knows wot's 'appened, and who 'as got it, he's looking for a ship agin.
"'Cause, it so 'appened as she married summun else." "And the second?" "The second were a fine, pretty maid tu, but I couldn't marry she." "Why?" "'Cause, Peter, she went an' took an' died afore I could ax 'er." "And the third, you married."
It was so sudden that nobody knew wot 'ad 'appened for a moment, and then George Kettle, wot 'ad been looking with the rest, turned round and pulled the trigger. There was a bang that pretty nigh deafened us, and the back o' the chair was blown nearly out.
'Was you though? said Ortheris; 'now that's extry-ordinary! 'Orth'ris, said Mulvaney, 'av you opin thim lips av yours again, I will, savin' your presince, Sorr, take you by the slack av your trousers an' heave you. 'I'm mum, said Ortheris. 'Wot 'appened when you was a recruity? 'I was a betther recruity than you iver was or will be, but that's neither here nor there.
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