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This is a wale o' tears, as the 'ymn sez, and them as is out on it is best off, if so be as they done their dooty in that state o' life.... Where's the corfee, Jim? The water's on the bile. I am not a psychologist, and I have not seen many people die in their beds; but I think it is established that very few people are afraid of a natural death when it comes to the test.
Then they'd 'a said you'd poisoned yourself 'cos you was blue coming to this 'ere 'ole. I'd 'a been put in the box at the inquige, and I'd 'a said Yes, you was blue, and I thought there was a screw loose the minit I see yer, and I'd seen yer empty a paper of powder in your corfee while you thort nobody wasn't a-looking.
He was no end of a toff, great-coat with silk collar, neat browns, gloves, and a bowler 'at." "Moustache?" "Yes, and waxed. Got a sort of broad-arrow on his cheek, and looked at ye as if 'is eyes was gimlets, and he wanted to bore a hole through yer; called at seven, breakfast at half-past, 'am and eggs and two cups of corfee and a roll, all took up to 'im in 'is room.
The herrings were badly over-smoked and the coffee was like mud, and the boy's conversation, which filled in a running accompaniment, was not conducive to digestion. "I'd 'most a mind to try some prussic in that corfee," said that bloodthirsty young gentleman, "if I'd a known where the chemist downstairs keeps his'n.
Skip volunteered his aid suggested "A nor'nge, ham 'n'eggs, a plate o' wheats, anna cuppa corfee." "All right," said Kedzie, wondering how much such a barbecue would cost. Skip went to bellow the order through a sliding door and grab it when it should be pushed forth from a mysterious realm. Kedzie picked up a newspaper that Skip had picked up after some early client left it.
"Hullo!" he cried. "Any news of the gray car?" "Yes, sir, I think so," was the somewhat surprising answer. "When I dropped you last night I got a fare to Euston. Then I took a gentleman to the Langham, an', as I felt like a snack, I pulled into the nearest cab rank. I was having some corfee an' a sandwich when I 'appened to speak about the gray car to one of ahr chaps. 'That's odd, he said.
Tagg, being lame, preferred to swing himself to the main deck, whence he hopped into the small cabin where the officers ate their meals. He came back instantly. "Wot's the game?" he inquired sympathetically. "You've eaten nothin'. Feelin' bad?" "No. Oh, no," Royson laughed and reddened. "Then wot's wrong? Didn't you fancy the corfee an' bacon, after the high livin' ashore?"
"There's a corfee-stall near their road and the night bein' crool damp I thought as how a nice cup o' corfee'd warm me up afore I went back to the Waterloo Bridge Road. I had me cup o' corfee and was jes' a-payin' the chap what has the pitch w'en a fellow passes by right in the light o' the lamp on the stall.
"Most respectable people!" repeated Horace "most respectable people, old coach and all." And then, as another party drove off "No fear of any thing truly respectable here." "Now, Horace, how can you say so? she is so amiable and so clever." "So clever? only, perhaps, a thought too fond of English liberty and French dress. Poissarde lien corfee."
That's what ladies generally prefer, and some sweets, and fruit. Claret for me, and what for you? Is it to be `corfee' once more?" He went to the door to give the order to the waiter, accompanied by a tip which had the effect of producing the meal in an extraordinarily short space of time.
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