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Peggotty, standing with his legs pretty wide apart, and rubbing his hands up and down them in his comfortable satisfaction, as he looked alternately at us and at the fire. 'I doen't know but I am. Not, you see, to look at. 'Not azackly, observed Peggotty. 'No, laughed Mr. Peggotty, 'not to look at, but to to consider on, you know. I doen't care, bless you! Now I tell you.
She had helped a great many of the young ones of that community into the world, and she had eased the pains of many old ones who were quitting it. So she thought that Greening's visit must have something to do with either life or death. "No, nobody just azackly sick," dodged Greening. "Well, laws my soul, you make a mighty mystery over it! What's the matter can't you talk?"
"Well, I'm not azackly in a condition to step down not for a minute or two; and I doubt Mrs Bowldler, if I called her, wouldn' be in no condition either. . . . 'Twould be friendly of you to ask Mr Benny in and offer him a drink; and as for missy " "No thank 'ee, Cap'n," interposed Mr Benny.
"Do you have adventures?" asked Dick, recognizing in this description a rough sketch of the life of a modern knight-errant. "'Ventures? I believe you!" said the man. "Why, only last month a brute of a dog bit me in the leg, at a back door Sutton way. An' once I see a elephant." "Wild?" asked Dickie, thrilling. "Not azackly wild with a circus 'e was. But big! Wild ones ain't 'alf the size, I lay!
And here's a funny thing now!" wound up Billy, glancing at me. "The Prince was willing enough your release should be sent, and even chose out that fellow Stephanu to come along with me. But something in his eye I can't azackly describe it warned me he had a sort of reason for thinking that 'twouldn't do you much good.
"Off I sheered, not azackly runnin', but walkin' pretty much like a Torpointer; an' sure 'nough the fellow stood up straight and began to follow close behind me. I heard the water go squish-squash in his shoon, every step he took. By this, I was fairly leakin' wi' sweat.
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