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"That's the afternoon Jim was took," whispered a woman to her neighbor. Hannah Prime went on. "I jest as soon tell it now. I can tell ye all together what I couldn't say to one on ye alone; an' if anybody speaks to me about it arterwards, they'll wish they hadn't. I was all by myself in the house. I set down in my clock-room, about three in the arternoon, an' there I set. I didn't git no supper.
'Oh yes, you do know, sir! said Mrs Gamp, 'and so does Mrs Mould, your 'ansome pardner too, sir; and so do I, although the blessing of a daughter was deniged me; which, if we had had one, Gamp would certainly have drunk its little shoes right off its feet, as with our precious boy he did, and arterward send the child a errand to sell his wooden leg for any money it would fetch as matches in the rough, and bring it home in liquor; which was truly done beyond his years, for ev'ry individgle penny that child lost at toss or buy for kidney ones; and come home arterwards quite bold, to break the news, and offering to drown himself if sech would be a satisfaction to his parents.
In the stone circle you comed; an' by night arterwards, sweatin' for terror, your gran'mother, as had heard tell of it, sneaked from Newtake to kiss me an' press you to her body. Faither never knawed till long arter; an' though mother used to say she heard un forgive me on his death-bed, 'twas her awn pious wish echoing in her awn ears I reckon. But that's all awver an' done." Mrs.
I was mighty vexed, however, next day, when I remembered what I'd said. But he never said a word about it, but looked werry innocent. A few nights arterwards we gets drinking and smoking again. Then he took a little too much himself. I knowed it, because next day he was axing me if I'd see'd anything of an envelope as he'd lost.
Will you come down of your own self, arterwards, pretty, or shall Ed'ard Cuttle come and fetch you? As Florence assured him that she was quite able to walk downstairs, the Captain, though evidently doubtful of his own hospitality in permitting it, left her to do so, and immediately set about roasting a fowl at the fire in the little parlour.
A ship came in two days arterwards, that must have been a hundred leagues further to the nor'ard when it happened, and her people reported that they thought heaven and 'arth was a coming together, out there in open water." "It has been a mighty earthquake must have been, to have wrought these vast changes; though I had supposed that Providence had confined a knowledge of its existence to myself.
"Ah well, I once knowed a man as spoke to the Lord Mayor o' Lunnon's coachman but 'e's dead, took the smallpox the year arterwards an' died, 'e did." At this juncture the door was thrown noisily open, and two gentlemen entered. The first was a very tall man with black hair that curled beneath his hat-brim, and so luxuriant a growth of whisker that it left little of his florid countenance exposed.
We watched the house, an' about half an hour arterwards we seen her run out of the kitchen with the open box in her hand, an' run a good way away from the house an' throw the fish inter the bushes, an' then go back quick, holdin' her nose. An' jest then, as luck would have it, we seen Dave Regan ridin' up from the creek towards the house.
And she see it; and so she asks, in a sort o' princess' way, to speak to the cap'n alone; and so the doors was shut, and we was left to our own ideas, and a wonderin' what it was all to be about. "Wal, you see, it come out arterwards all about what went on; and things went this way.
Business first, and pleasure, if ye can get it, arterwards them's my notions, Nip Nip Nippi what's your name?" "Coo Tumble, I think," suggested Briant. "Ay, Nippiloo Bumble wot a jaw-breaker! so git along, old boy."
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