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"So would the natives obsarve of London or Liverpool," said Old Peter. "With less cause, however," replied Will. "That depends on taste," retorted Old Peter. "Be no manes," put in Larry; "it neither depinds on taste, nor smell, but feelin' see now, here's how it is. We being in Tickamis, feels it coorious; well av the natives here wos in London they would feel it coorious.
"The crosses be very well, an' coorious, butivul things to see 'pon the land tu, but they'm poor food to a body's sawl. They caan't shaw wheer you'm out; they caan't lead 'e right." "Iss they can, then, an' they do," declared Joan. "The more I bide along wi' 'em the better I feel an' the nearer to God A'mighty, so theer!
While he was thus engaged, Captain Wopper regarded the Mer de Glace with a gaze of fixedness so intense as to draw on him the attention and arouse the curiosity of his friends. "D'you see anything curious, Captain?" asked Emma, who chanced to stand beside him. "Coorious eh?" repeated the Captain slowly, without altering his gaze or adding to his reply.
An' 'twont be for long, 'cause the man'll come for her mighty soon seemin'ly. Can 'e faace it, the Lard helpin'? Poor Joan's bin kicked out the house by her faither. I do not like en never did. What do 'e say? She doan't count it no sin, mind you, an' doan't look for no reprovin', 'cause the gen'leman have taught her terrible coorious ideas; but 'tis just this: we'm all sinners, eh, Polly?
"It took them fifteen years and more, and they were marvellously lucky." "What then? I'm as like to fare well as they. I've worked out a far-reaching plan, but the first step I've thought on 's terrible coorious, an' I reckon nobody but you'd see how it led to better things. But you 'm book-larned and wise in your way, though I wish your wisdom had done more for yourself than it has.
The young man thanked them very civilly, and said how 'twas a coorious come-along-of-it, and he didn't hardly know what to think of the matter even to that day. "I should reckon 'twas a bit of nonsense what I'd dreamed," he said; "but money's money, as who should know better than me? And, by the same token, I want a few words with Hyssop if she'm willing to give me ten minutes of her time."
Trusting to some sort of inspiration, he began, with looks and tones of the deepest solemnity, "I s'pose you guess, Massa Osman, dat I've been inwestigatin' that coorious business ob de English gal what runned away?" "No, I did not guess that," answered the Moor shortly. "Oh! but it's true!" said Peter. "Well found what?" asked the Moor eagerly. "Found her fadder!" "Bah!
"Nothin', nowhere, an' nobody," repeated his friend; "that's what I calls a coorious combination for a man who's as white as a sheet one moment, and as red as a turkey-cock the next." "Well, Slagg," said Stumps, recovering himself a little, "the fact is, I've been taken in and robbed."
You might have noticed that love-cheel by the name of Timothy 'bout the plaace? Him as be just of age to harry the ducks an' such-like." "A nice li'l bwoy, tu, an' fond of me; an' you caan't say he'm a love-cheel, knawin' nothin' 'bout him." "Love-cheel or changeling, 'tis all wan. Have'e ever thought 'twas coorious the way Blanchard comed by un?" "Certainly 'twas terrible coorious."
He knew Lezzard to be more than seventy years old and usually regarded the ancient man's rivalry with contempt; but he felt uneasy for a few moments, until the front door of Mrs. Coomstock's dwelling was opened to him by the lady herself. "My stars! You? What a terrible coorious thing!" she said. "Why for?" "Come in the parlour. Theer! coorious ban't the word!"
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