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She struggled, felt her breath failing, tried to rise, and fell back unconscious. At the same time Alice was sitting in the drawing-room, in conversation with Mr. Willis Rodman. 'Arry having been invited for this evening, Rodman was asked with him, as had been the case before. 'Arry was at present amusing himself in the stables, exchanging sentiments with the groom.
'Has he stayed at home often lately? 'Not at 'ome, but I expect he doesn't always go to work. 'Will you go and sit with Alice in the front room? I'll have a talk with him. 'Arry came whistling at the summons. There was a nasty look on his face, the look which in his character corresponded to Richard's resoluteness. His brother eyed him.
'I shall live as I like, observed 'Arry, thrusting out his legs and bending his body forward, a combination of movements which, I know not why, especially suggests dissoluteness. Richard gave up the contest for the present, and went in silence from the room. As he joined his mother and sister they suddenly ceased talking. 'Don't cook anything for me, he said, remaining near the door.
Earlier in the evening there had been ill-advised libations; he had started for his home, felt sleepy, sheltered from the wet in a tunnel quite familiar to him, and there been discovered by the ladies and roused by myself. Arrived at the coffee-stall he had recognised in its proprietor a former pal and another former pal in 'Arry the derelict.
They addressed him affectionately as 'Arry', throughout his speech, which was rather long. They implored him to be a pal and sing 'The Saftest of the Family'. Or, failing that, 'I love a lassie'. Finding they could not induce him to do this, they did it themselves. They sang it several times.
I should'nt ha' dreamt of such a thing. "Artful 'Arry played with 'is stick a little, and stood looking at 'im with a horrible look on 'is face. "''Ow am I to know you're speaking the truth? he ses, very slow. 'Eh? 'Ow can you prove it? "'If it was the last word I was to speak I'd say the same, ses Uncle Dick. 'I tell you, I am as innercent as a new-born babe.
I like to reflect that Cromwell had a wart on his nose; the thought makes me more contented with my own features. I like to think that he put sweets upon the chairs, to see finely-dressed ladies spoil their frocks; to tell myself that he roared with laughter at the silly jest, like any East End 'Arry with his Bank Holiday squirt of dirty water.
If it wasn't 'Arry Pole, who was it?" "But wasn't all this gone into at the inquest?" "Well, you see, it's over forty years since it 'appened; but I can remember as the 'ole were looked into, and there was a good deal o' talk at the time. There was two men as said they seed him wi' the gun in his hand, and a mournful look on his face, like.
"Artful 'Arry went down the companion-ladder very quiet, and then stood at the foot of it looking at Uncle Dick. He looked 'im up and down and all over, and then 'e gave a fierce, loud cough. "'Good-evening, he ses. "'Good-evening, ses Uncle Dick, staring at 'im. 'Did you want to see anybody? "'I did, ses 'Arry. 'I do.
If Alice Maud was allowed to give up her work, to wear more expensive gowns, even to receive lessons on the pianoforte, she had to thank Dick for it. And when 'Arry was told that his clerkship at the drain-pipe manufactory was about to terminate, that he might enter upon a career likely to be more fruitful of distinction, again it was Dick's brotherly kindness. Mrs.
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