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I want to know what the old bloke's goin' to do with his money, don't I? And I want to know what my beast of a 'usband's got out of him. And I want to know what that feller Kirkwood's goin' to do. He'd ought to marry your sister by rights. 'Not much fear of that now. 'Trust him! He'll stick where there's money.
There's the 'unger for revenge, wot drives yer to bash in a bloke's face, and loses you yer stripes if 'e 'appens to be your Corp'ril.
The bloke's face ain't familiar I never ran across him. But the name? Ah, hang me if I don't think I've got it!" Mr. Hawker did not get into the London train, though his goal was the metropolis.
"Isn't that a little dangerous?" he observed. "The police mean having him." "You're dead right," the Irishman replied. "They've got to have him, and he knows it. They'd keep their hands off any one in these parts if they could, but this bloke's different. He done it too thick, and he's got the public squealing. Now if we could get him out for long enough, he's the man for your job.
"Just say dat ag'in, cully." Roll was startled, and looked as if he longed to take to his heels and get away as quickly as possible; but he did not run, and he forced himself to say: "This is a case of business, professor. I will pay liberally to have the job done as I want it." "An' youse wants a bloke's arm bruck?" "Yes." "Well, dis is a quare deal!
"Why oh, ain't you a flat, though? why, them there boots!" "What boots? Why can't you talk sense?" "Why, that there bloke's boots. When I was a-shinin' of 'em, if the sole of one on 'em don't come clean off!" he cried, with a grin. "I don't see anything so very amusing in that," I replied.
"Let's hook it, then," said Dick, buttoning the package and envelope into his hip-pocket, and slipping the rest of Melchard's papers into the side pocket of his own jacket, hanging loosely on Amaryllis. As they crossed the hall he missed Ockley. "My God!" he cried. "The black bloke's gone. Did you see him go or hear him?" Amaryllis shook her head.
"Why should I split?" said Robert Penfold. "Has the law been a friend to me? But I won't rob my benefactor and his daughter." "That is square enough," said Butt. "Why, pals, there are other cribs to be cracked besides that old bloke's. Finish the ale, mate, and part friends." "If you will promise me to crack some other crib, and let that one alone."
On one of these occasions my incorrigible doll horrified me by winking at the audience and exclaiming, to their delight, "The bloke's got all the words on my back!" She then revolved out of my grasp, and spun slowly round on her stool. This unrehearsed effect quite brought the house down, and not to be outdone, I raised my small bowler repeatedly in acknowledgment!
"Much crest-fallen, and terribly mortified, I returned to the cottage which had been selected to shelter me noble self, only to be met there with a volley of derisive laughter, repeated demands for the jug of Defaulter's milk, and questions about the quarter bloke's health.
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