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'I very much fear so, said Boots; 'as how the bargeman who told me saw Mr. Coningsby in the Lock House laid out in flannels. 'I had sooner any fellow had been drowned than Coningsby, whispered one boy to another. 'I liked him, the best fellow at Eton, responded his companion, in a smothered tone. 'What a clever fellow he was! 'And so deuced generous!
Such intelligent sympathy meeting him half-way was a new experience to him, and it touched his heart at once. He leaned back, relaxing his tight hold of the arms, and began in his thin, scale-like voice. "My mother was a Frenchwoman, and my father an Essex bargeman," he said abruptly. "Hence my name Racine and Mudge. My father died before I ever saw him.
He heard it at the Brocas; a bargeman told him about a quarter of an hour ago. 'Here is Wentworth! Here is Wentworth! a hundred voices exclaimed, and they formed a circle round him. 'Well, what did you hear, Wentworth? asked Sedgwick.
Geoffrey exclaimed. "I wish we were going with you. Don't you think you could take us, Master Lirriper?" The bargeman looked down into the water and frowned. He was slow of speech, but as the minutes went on and he did not absolutely refuse the boys exchanged glances of excitement and hope. "I dunno how that might be, young sirs," John Lirriper said slowly, after long cogitation.
Idly I tossed the butt of a finished cigar over the bridge balustrade. Idly my eye followed it down to the filthy, sluggishly-creeping water that flows round the bend, under the damp rear-garden walls below. A policeman and a bargeman were just taking the body of an old man out of that turbid canal-stream.
Some of these men and their wives live always on these barges, and earn their living by taking things up the river. There is only a tiny dirty little cabin, the size of the smallest room you ever saw, and so Mrs. Bargeman can't bring fine frocks with her; but that doesn't matter, for it isn't likely that she has any.
A writ of error being brought, it was assigned that "this action lies not against a common bargeman without special promise. But all the Justices and Barons held, that it well lies as against a common carrier upon the land." If we follow this report, it seems at the first glance that importance was attributed to the common calling.
In Croke's report nothing is said of custom; but the declaration avers that the defendant was a common bargeman, that the plaintiff delivered him a portmanteau, &c. to carry, and paid him for it, and that the defendant tam negligenter custodivit, that it was taken from him by persons unknown, like the second count in Morse v. Slue, below. The plea was demurred to, and adjudged for the plaintiff.
So what does Mr Lepel do but let drive straight from the shoulder at the offender, and in a minute the shoes and the lady were out of the kennel and the bargeman lying there as snug as snug, and the oaths he let out of him blackening the air like a flight of crows. So Mr Lepel, smiling with set lips like a picture, says to the girls: "Ladies, permit me to escort you to your home.
But he must have the power of making himself invisible before he can shake Me off. Riderhood stopped. 'If you don't get disapinted agin, T'otherest, maybe you'll put up at the Lock-house when you come back? 'I will. Riderhood nodded, and the figure of the bargeman went its way along the soft turf by the side of the towing-path, keeping near the hedge and moving quickly.
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