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"Mine 's been lent a great deal," he continued proudly. "She 's been as far as 'Tit Menan Light, and one woman over to Sheep Island kep' her a week once. She 's been sent for sometimes right in the middle o' the night! When there ain't nobody else a-usin' of her, I takes the charnce to pick away with her a little myself.
I'd perish you, I would, if I was 'im! Off the fyce o' the earth, an' charnce bein' 'ung for it! Take away that gun, you silly little imitation sojer d' you 'eer?" The weapon was extremely weighty. W. Keyse's arms ached frightfully. Perspiration trickled into his eyes from under the tilted smasher. He felt damp and small, and desperately at a loss.
Only, at this time, Hardenberg was on duty on the bridge. It was Ally Bazan who spoke instead. "Seems to me," he hazarded, "as haow they's somethin' or other a-goin' to bump up pretty blyme soon. I shouldn't be surprised, naow, y'know, if we piled her up on some bally uncharted reef along o' to-night and went strite daown afore we'd had a bloomin' charnce to s'y 'So long, gen'lemen all."
Then I became aware of the presence of Ike, who said with a grim smile: "Don't you heed them, my lad. I see one of 'em chuck it and then turn round. Wait a bit and I shall get a charnce, and I'll drar my whip round one of 'em in a way as'll be a startler."
And that made the Fourth Time, and he hadn't even thanked the Doctor yet! A date, he hoped, would arrive when a chalk or two of that mounting score might be wiped off the board. He said so to Mrs. Keyse, the first time she was allowed to sit up and play at doing a bit of needlework. Not that she did a stitch, and charnce it!
"Go and starve and leave us to starve, if you will," shouted Mr. Baron, "but you shall steal none of my property." Angry mutterings began among the negroes, and it were hard to say how the scene would have ended if old Uncle Lusthah had not suddenly appeared between the opposing parties, and held up his hand impressively. "I gib up my charnce ter be free," he began with simple dignity.
A telephone-message come from our Colonel to say Brice's men was bad with rheumatism and dysentery but Brice is all right an' fit, Sir and" the pale eyes pleaded out of the brickdust-coloured face "I'd like the charnce o' gettin' nearer to the enemy, Sir an' that's the truth." Beauvayse conceded. "Very well.
You noticed two pushbuttons in your bathroom, didn't you?" "I did," I said, "and that's just the difficulty. One of them is for the maid and the other is for the waiter." "Quite so, sir," he said, "quite so. Very well, then, sir: You ring for the waiter or the maid or, if you should charnce to be in a hurry, for both of them; because, you see, one of them might charnce to be en "
There's a stand of rifles at the for'ard bulkhead. Kill hoff the bloody lot of hofficers. Navigate the bloomin' ole 'ooker back ourselves and report whatever damn thing we like." "How about these passengers? They'd snitch," suggested the same questioner. "Aw no," sarcastically assured Hoak, "they won't snitch. They won't 'ave no more charnce to snitch than Coulter 'isself damn 'im."
But the skipper, red-faced and angry, answered, "W'y, yer so-and-so ijits, that's wot the Lord Mayor of London gives about a guinea a hounce for w'en 'e feeds lords n' dooks. Only the haristocracy at 'ome get a charnce to stick their teeth in such grub as that. An' 'ere are you lot a-growlin' at 'avin' it for a change!"
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