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Priscilla took the little hand that caressed her, and kissed it. "Ah, my lovey!" she half whispered "I should be 'appy enough if I thought you was a-goin' to be 'appy too! but you're flyin' in the face o' fortune, lovey! that's what you're a-doin'!" Innocent silenced her with a gesture, and stood beside her, patiently listening till Mr. Bayliss had concluded his business. "I think, Mr.
What shall I say to him?" "Say nothing at all. Your brother John is not the man to put up with interference." "He longs so for a real home again, Polly darling," said Jinny, wiping her eyes. "And HOW 'appy it will make me to fulfil 'is wish! Don't let me feel unwelcome and an intruder, dear. I know I'm not nearly good enough for 'im, and 'e could 'ave had the choice of ever such handsome women.
An' den come de day ven de good Lord Heem 'ear 'ow I pray all de time an' Papineau heem begin to get vell again. But de time vos like having big knife planted in my 'eart, jus' like dat." She made a gesture as if she had stabbed herself, and went on: "You not know 'ow 'appy you must be you no love a man as goin' for die soon. You you go crazy times like dat!"
P'r'aps he was 'appier where he was than doing six months. "He was the sort o' chap that'll make himself 'appy anywhere," ses one of 'em, comforting-like. "Not without me," ses Mrs. Bullet, sobbing, and wiping her eyes on something she used for a pocket-hankercher. "He never could bear to be away from me. Was there no last words?" "On'y one," ses one o' the chaps, Joe Peel by name.
"Has for the rest," the worthy fellow said, "I'm appy praps betwixt you and me I'm in my proper spear. I've a good busniss, which is likely to be better. If a man can't be appy with such a wife as my Mary Hann, he's a beest: and when a christening takes place in our famly, will you give my complments to MR. PUNCH, and ask him to be godfather."
Well, I went on a-sayin' to myself, 'Ain't I to 'ave not one 'appy day in all my life? An' it come to me all at once, with a flash like, that money was to be 'ad for the trouble o' takin' it money an' 'appiness." The bleared eye rolled with a sort of self-congratulation, and the coins jingled more loudly. "A pound ain't no use; nor yet two pound; nor yet five pound.
Be kind to me now." "The young 'uns is always to have their own way," said Neefit. "Hasn't my way been your way, father?" "Not when you wouldn't take the Captain when he come to Margate." "I didn't love him, father. Dear father, say the word. We haven't been happy lately; have we, father?" "I ain't been very 'appy," said Neefit, bursting out into sobs.
That's all I've got to say, and if I was to talk till I'm black in the face, I couldn't say nothing more to the purpose; so, I wishes you all 'A Merry Christmas and an 'Appy New Year." But I'm fatiguing you, Mr. Nimrod, with all this, which is only hinteresting to the parties concerned, so will pass on to other topics. I saw the King riding in his coach with his Sunday coat on.
As he spoke, with a sudden, dexterous motion, he had snapped something upon my wrists, so quickly that, at the contact of the cold steel, I started, and as I did so, something jingled faintly. "There!" he exclaimed, clapping me on the shoulder again, but at the same time casting a sharp glance at my shackled wrists "there now we're all 'appy an' comfortable!
He told me once when I was symperthizing with him, that the only time a woman ever spoke civilly to him was one night down Poplar way in a fog, an' he was so 'appy about it that they both walked into the canal afore he knew where they was.
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