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'Very well, said Cann, 'we'll just have to guess at the other boys, an' their fathers'll be prevailed on to deal with 'em; but this boy what's been the ring leader ain't got no father, an' it don't seem fair to the others to leave his punishment to a weak woman, does it? Peterson's eye appealed to the master again. 'Not fair an' square to the other boys, he added philosophically.
The house will hold genteelly no more than these two inmates; but in the season it manages to accommodate Miss Cann, who too was from Bayhams, having been a governess there to the young lady who is dead, and who now makes such a livelihood as she can best raise, by going out as a daily teacher. Miss Cann dines with Mrs. Ridley in the adjoining little back-parlour.
"She's a-going to be married to Smiler next Sunday as ever is down at Ramsgate; and at Ramsgate she is now. You'll find her, Mr. 'Oward, if you'll keep your eyes open, somewhere about the 'Fiddle with One String." This information was so far recognised by Mr. Howard as correct, that he paid Mr. Cann five sovereigns down for it at once. "The Fiddle with One String" Mr.
Biccause madame she cann' skip ar-ound pretty light, you know, and biccause they think my, eh pull with those De l'Isle' is the moze of anybody, and biccause I require to know how they are sure 'tis uzeless any mo' for my son, or their son, than for the son of De l'Isle, to sed the heart on Mlle. Aline. Also tha'z to egsplain me why Mlle.
'Parrot Cann, will you kindly favour me with a few minutes on the floor? It was the old cracked voice, flavoured with an ominous irony. Dick paused in the middle of a throw with a cocked ear and upturned eyes; Jacker Mack grinned all across his broad face and winked meaningly. They heard the shuffling of a pair of heavily shod feet, and then the voice again.
"Well, Aline, praise be to heaven, any'ow his skull, from ear to ear 'tis solid! Ah, I mean, of co'se, roun' the h-outside. Inside 'tis hollow. But outside it has not a crack! eh, doctor?" "Except the sutures he was born with. Now, my little man " "Ah, ah, Corinne! Born with shuture'! and we never suzpeg' that!" "Ah, but, Yvonne, if he's had those sinz' that long they cann' be so very fatal, no!"
Phil Doon, it appeared, had pressing reasons for returning home, but Peterson remembered that he had still an account to settle with his father, and resolved to share Dick's fortune. 'Right you are, said Dick. 'You fellers bring some crib to-morrer, an' if you see Parrot Cann tell him to fetch some too an', mind, no blabbin'.
He drove at Cann from the rear with masterly strategy and uncommon force, and brought him down; then in a flash boy and bag were hidden under a climbing, butting, burrowing army of goats, from the centre of which came the muffled yells of poor Parrot clipped in a hundred places by the sharp hoofs of the hungry animals.
"Not the De Brahmin Mandarin who was Honoré's manager?" "Yes. Honoré was n' able to kip 'im no long-er. Honoré is n' so rich lak befo'." "And Mandarin is really in charge here?" "Oh, yes. Profess-or Frowenfel' all de time at de ole corner, w'ere 'e continue to keep 'is private room and h-use de ole shop fo' ware'ouse. 'E h-only come yeh w'en Mandarin cann' git 'long widout 'im."
Smiler had been there, a gentleman for whom the whole police of London entertained a feeling which approached to veneration, and that most diminutive of full-grown thieves, Billy Cann, most diminutive but at the same time most expert, was not doubted by some minds which were apt to doubt till conviction had become certainty.
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