United States or Kosovo ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"Oh, shut up, Chips, cawn't ye!" exclaimed one of the other men a Cockney, if his tongue did not belie him, "shut up, and stow that `equality' yarn of yours.
'It's their place, said some one in a rage; 'the women ought to do the washin'. 'I'm not sure you aren't right. For a good many o' you fellas from the look o' you, you cawn't even wash yourselves. This was outrageous. It was resented in an incipient riot. The helmets of the police bobbed about. An angry voice had called out 'Oo are you talkin' to?
"Yer cawn't see 'im. Blimey, 'ow much more of it, I should like to know. Gerroutovit, cawn't yer! You and yer caps." And he added a searching expletive by way of concluding the sentence fittingly. After which he slipped back and slammed the door, leaving Fenn waiting outside like the Peri at the gate of Paradise. His resemblance to the Peri ceased after the first quarter of a minute.
Each of these reproaches was couched in terms that defined the situation as impending. No blind man could have conceived that the precipitate phrase of the incident was absolutely closed. "Look out now, cawn't you?" And there was nothing in his mind which approached these sentiments near enough to tell them to go to Hades.
We were going to wait until morning, until the beginning of the "gravvy-eye" watch, just before dawn. That was the hour in which to strike. Men slept soundest just before dawn; those who were awake were less alert. The mutiny was timed for four A. M. "Hi cawn't 'ardly wyte that long, Hi'm that eager to get my knife 'twixt that myte's bleedin' ribs," said Cockney.
"'It is indeed sad, says Pendergast, 'to see my countrymen in such circumstances. "'Cut 'arf of that out, old party, says Liverpool. 'Cawn't you tell a member of the British upper classes when you see one? "'Shut up, I told Liverpool. 'You're on foreign soil now, or that portion of it that's not on you.
Is this a home for old gentlemen? If you'll bring out all you've got, I'll find my one." "Wodyer want see the old gentleman for?" "To ask for my cap. I left it here last night." "Oh, yer left it 'ere last night! Well, yer cawn't see 'im." "Not from here, no," agreed Fenn. "Being only eyes, you see," he quoted happily, "my wision's limited. But if you wouldn't mind moving out of the way "
At a little distance the other figure was hanging to a tree, evidently near to exhaustion. "Oh, Kalman, we were fair done when the dogs came, and then I wouldn't stop, for I knew you were near. But my! my! you were so long!" The boy still held her in his arms. "I say, young man, what the deuce are we going to do? I'm played out. I cawn't move a blawsted foot."
The wearer of the incriminatory hat, acting upon some quite unanalyzed instinct to range herself unmistakably on the side of law and order, paused as they were passing the two policemen and addressed them with dignity. 'Is it safe to stop and listen for a few minutes to these people? The men looked at Mrs. Fox-Moore with obvious suspicion. 'I cawn't say, said the one nearest.
"Very gladly," responded the other, "very gladly. You seem a good sort, and you fought fair. I'll tell you the absolute truth. "I came from England originally, and not from Arkansaw, as my friend supposes, although I don't know where Arkansaw is, I'm sure. I was long in the British Army, or Navy, I cawn't remember which. I'm quite sure it was one or the other, possibly both."
Word Of The Day