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I know all about that, sir." "Indeed?" said Lawrence. "Yes, I dined the other day with Mrs Stoutley; she asked me also to be of the party, and I'm going." Lawrence again exclaimed, "Indeed!" with increasing surprise, and added, "Well, now, that is a strange coincidence." "Well, d'ee know," said the Captain, in an argumentative tone, "it don't seem to me much of a coincidence.
How d'ee think that's done in these days, with every one cuttin' freights? I gave you credit for havin' more sense." 'Bias stared. "See here," he said slowly, "if I'd known that hundred pound was to be put into any such wickedness, I'd have seen you further before trustin' you with it. As 'tis, I'll trouble you " "Hold hard, there!" Mr Rogers interrupted.
"Milly won't appear again to-day," said the hostess, as she sat down. "I knew that she had overdone it. The shock to her system has been far too severe to admit of botanical discussions." Barret professed himself overwhelmed with a sense of guilt, and promised to avoid the dangerous subject in future. "Mother," exclaimed Flo, who was a good but irrepressible child, "what d'ee t'ink?
I suppose that God must have changed me altogether. My only fear is that I'll fall back again into the old bad ways I'm so helpless for anything good, d'ee see." "You forget," returned Eve, with another of her tearful smiles; "He says, `I will never leave thee nor forsake thee' "
"A penny gaff," remarked Bones, referring to a low music-hall; "what d'ee say to go in?" Aspel was so depressed just then that he welcomed any sort of excitement, and willingly went. "What's to pay?" he asked of the man at the door. "Nothing; it's free." "That's liberal anyhow," observed Bones, as they pushed in.
However, comrade, choppers are all we have got, so we must make the most of 'em. They say a good workman can work with any tools. What d'ee propose to try? I'll put myself under your orders, Moses; for, although you are a meekish sort of a fellow, I really believe you have a better headpiece than most of us." "I propose that we simply go at 'em," said Moses.
Wot d'ee mean by raisin' yer dirty foot ag'in a honest man, w'ch you ain't, an' never was, an' never will be, an' never could be, seein' that both your respected parients was 'anged afore you was born. Come on, I say. You ain't a coward, air you? If so, I'll 'and you over to Little Jim 'ere, an' stand by to see fair play!"
"You see, sir, if it was a page-in-buttons I was to be, to attend on my young lady the guv'ness, I might take it into consideration; but to go into buttons an' blue merely to open a door an' do the purlite to wisitors, an' mix up things with bad smells by way of a change why, d'ee see, the prospec' ain't temptin'. Besides, I hate blue.
Two evenings later, on his return from St. Austell market, he happened to let himself in by the door of the walled garden just beneath the house, and came on a tall young man talking there in the dusk with his wife. "Why, 'tis Zeke Penhaligon! How d'ee do, my lad? Now, 'tis queer, but only five minutes a-gone I was talkin' about 'ee with your skipper, Nummy Tangye, t'other side o' the ferry.
Now, if I fix a piece of wire to my first copper slice or plate, and the other end of it to my last zinc slice or plate, immediately electricity will begin to be made, and will fly from the copper to the zinc, and so round and round until the plates are worn out or the wire broken. D'ee see?" "No, Robin, I don't see; I'm blinder than the blindest mole."
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