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Kensington's only a small place, they do you well there, and it's always full as soon as the door's opened; you'd 'ave more chawnce at St George's. He was silent. I turned his words over in my mind, feeling as little disposed to try the one place as the other. Presently he began again.
I speak the language a little and tried to monopolize the lady, and did, which didn't increase my popularity any. "I say, Yank," some one would call, "don't be a blinkin' 'og. Give somebody else a chawnce." Whereupon I would pursue my conquest all the more ardently. I was making a large hit, as I thought, when in came an officer.
They ain't never bad when they ain't got a chawnce, blast their black 'arts...." He foamed, whirling his arms, then suddenly grinned and, taking a tablet of black tobacco out of his pocket, bit a piece off with a funny show of ferocity.
"I want to borrow a man," Steve began mildly. Here he was interrupted. The ante-room door opened. One entered no, floated in faultlessly arrayed, with an air at once languid and gloomy. "Wyatt!" said Atwood, cordially. "Man! You're good for sore eyes! What fair wind blows you here?" Wyatt sank into a chair. "Doldwums. Nothing at all," he said listlessly. "Mewest chawnce, I assuah you.
"They are not so benighted as that. They give a little attention to the elementary studies, though I believe athletics do come second on the curriculum." "Well, the young dog seems to have made some use of his chawnce," said Saulisbury, who had dramatized the matter in his own way, and saw Ramsey doing the two men up in accordance with Queensberry rules.
"'Chawnst 'is arm! It's 'is bloomin' life 'e'd chawnce if that Young Jock got settin' abaht 'im. Not 'arf!" and the exotic of the Ratcliffe Highway added most luridly expressed improprieties anent the origins of the Lance-Corporal, his erstwhile enemy and, now, superior officer, in addition. "That's enough," said Dam shortly. "Yep.
"Damned if I wouldn't chawnce me arm and go fer 'im meself before we leave on'y I'm expectin' furver permotion afore long. But fer that I'd take it up meself" and he glanced at Dam. "Ketch the little swine at it," remarked Trooper Herbert Hawker, as loudly as he dared, to his "towny," Trooper Henry Bone.
It's a heavenly name Why don't you make a joyful noise?" Allan voiced a feeble hurrah. "It was only by chawnce that I h'encountered her, boss, for she is residing in the city. I h'ascertained all those facts " "Good! Find the street and number, quick! I'm going a-wooing! Say! When these Spaniards court a girl they hang around her window and roll their eyes, don't they? Me for that!
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