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He longed to hear more, but Bob had been taught somehow that eavesdropping is a mean and dishonourable thing. With manly determination, therefore, he left the spot, but immediately sought and found his little friend Pat Stiver, intent on relieving his feelings. "What d'ee think, Pat?" he exclaimed, in a low whisper, but with indignation in his eye and tone. "I ain't thinkin' at all," said Pat.
The man up aloft seemed to shiver in the shock of the outcry; and once more some fragments of mortar rolled from under his feet and bounded into the depths. The girl rounded upon the voicers. "Hold thee blazing tongues!" she cried in fury. "D'ee warnt to shake un from his perch?" She turned to the foremost group of men.
I'm glad you think me a philosopher, Little Bill, for it takes all the philosophy I've got to keep me up to the scratch of goin' about the world wi' you on my back. Why, I'm a regular Sindbad the Sailor, only I'm saddled with a young man o' the plains instead of an old man of the sea. D'ee understand what I'm saying, Oke?"
It sometimes hurts digestion; good-bye." "Well, what d'ee think of Ebbysneezer Smith, my electrical toolip?" asked Jim Slagg, whom Robin encountered again at the station. "He's a wiry subject, I s'pose, like the rest of 'em?" "He's a very pleasant gentleman," answered Robin warmly. "Oh, of coorse he is. All the Smiths are so more or less. They're a glorious family.
There's to be company, too, an' you're to be waiter " "Stooard, you mean?" "Well, yes stooard. Now, stooard, you'll keep a good look-out, an' clap as tight a stopper on yer tongue as may be. I've got a little plot in hand, d'ee see, an' I want you to help me with it. Keep your eye in a quiet way on Dr Lawrence and Miss Gray. I've taken a fancy that perhaps they may be in love with each other.
D'ee heare, Captaine, for all this I have a great mind to a wench, and a wench I must have if there be one above ground. Oh London, London, thou art full of frank tenements, give me London. Shall we wheele about yet? Cap. Give you London? Wo'nott Cheapeside serve your turne, or the Exchange? Enter Thomas. Tho. Oh, gentlemen, Mr. Engine is surely bewitch'd. Cap.
"By the way," he said, "you'll niver guess who wan o' the nurses is. Who d'ee think? guess!" "I never could guess right, Flynn." "Try." "Well, little Mrs Armstrong." "Nonsense, man! Why, she's nursin' her old father in England, I s'pose." "Miss Robinson, then?" "H'm! You might as well say the Prime Minister. How d'ee s'pose the Portsmuth Institute could git along widout her?
"Yes, yes, Polly," interrupted the captain, with a smile, "but I meant about money in a business way, you know, because if you chanced, d'ee see, ever to be in England without me, you know, it " "But I'll never be there without you, father, will I?" asked the child with an earnest look.
"Well, no, not exactly though I've no objection to do that too in the by-goin'. But we've heard a report that a band o' Sioux are goin' to visit the Settlement, and as there's a lot o' their enemies, the Saulteaux, knocking about, I've bin sent to the fort by old McKay to see if they've heard about the Sioux comin', an' if there's likely to be a scrimmage, so as we may clear for action, d'ee see?"
"D'ee know when it'll be low water, sir?" asked Joe Slag of the captain, when the ship gave one of her upward heaves and rasped her timbers again on the sides of the cave. "Not for three hours yet, but it's falling. I expect there will be less sea on in a short time. If the ship holds together we may yet be saved." There was a murmured "thank God" at these words.
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