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"So I goes after 'em down the river to the lagoons, and there was hundreds of blacks; but these two beauties had heard me coming, and was planted in the reeds, and the other blacks, of course, they says, "No more" when I arst them. So there I was, lonely. Only me and the Chinaman here for two months, 'cause his gin had gone too.
"'He said he thought he seen you at the inn, and I said that's just where he would see you. "'Anything more between you and the gentleman? says I, and she said: 'No, nothing more except that he said he'd look you up and arst if you was a funny little fat man, sort of round, with a little red face. And I said, 'Yes, that's him." Here I thought it time to break in.
Denton hesitated. "But " he said, "I can't give you anything " "That's the ge'man all over," said the swart man. "Who arst you to?" "But your time?" "If you don't get learnt scrapping you'll get killed, don't you make no bones of that." Denton thought. "I don't know," he said. He looked at the face beside him, and all its native coarseness shouted at him.
But 'e wos a bit too clever one day, and the coppers got 'im. Now you know!" Mrs. Driver paused after this outburst, and allowed her eye to wander slowly and ominously round my walls. I was deeply moved. My one link with Bohemia had turned out a fraud. Mrs. Driver's voice roused me from my meditations. "I must arst you to be good enough, if you please, kindly to remove those there bits of paper."
At last he felt it was hardly right for an Oxford man, and a triple blue at that, to be discussed in this contemptuous way by a larrikin and his "donah," so he broke into the discussion, perhaps a little abruptly, but using his most polished style. "I ah asked this lady to dance, and if she er will do me the honour," he said, "I " "Oh! you arst 'er to darnce?
The speaker, in her turn, moved away with a youth who asked her, with much unnecessary emphasis, "what the 'ell she had to do with Albey's feet and why she couldn't leave Chris Denham alone." "If I ain't 'xactly gawn on Russian taller myself, wot's agen Albey a-doin' of it," he asked authoritatively. "Leave the lidy alone and don't arst no questions.
Rat!" several voices cried at once in good strong Cockney. "Arst 'im some more, Rat!" "Is that what they call you?" Marco asked the hunchback. "It's what I called myself," he answered resentfully. "'The Rat. Look at me! Crawling round on the ground like this! Look at me!"
I want it put in the name of Albert Peter Smallways; that's the name I'm going to edop'. That's condition one." "Go on!" said the secretary. "The nex condition," said Bert, "is that you don't make any inquiries as to title. I mean what English gentlemen do when they sell or let you land. You don't arst 'ow I got it. See? 'Ere I am I deliver you the goods that's all right.
'D'yer know, Liza, he said, 'I just abaht kicked the life aht of a feller 'cause 'e said you was messin' abaht with with 'im. 'An' yer knew I was? 'Yus but I wasn't goin' ter 'ave anyone say it before me. 'They've all rounded on me except you, Tom. I'd 'ave done better if I'd tiken you when you arst me; I shouldn't be where I am now, if I 'ad. 'Well, won't yer now? Won't yer 'ave me now?
"Then you take the first to the right and the first to the left, and you'll get a blue 'bus as'll take you to the 'Elephant. That's a bit of the way. Then you arst again. And 'ere this'll pay for the 'bus." He held out coppers. This practical kindness went to Dickie's heart more than all the kisses of the young ladies in the flower-shop. The tears came into his eyes.
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