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Ricketts, a foe of long standing, came towards the public-house, and, halting a yard or two away, eyed him warily. "Come along," said Mr. Billing, speaking somewhat loudly, for the benefit of the men in the bar; "I sha'n't hurt you; my fighting days are over." "Yes, I dessay," replied the other, edging away.
He must make some excuse or other; and, should the worst come to the worst, "I suppose," he thought, "I could get another made like it though, when I come to think of it, I'll be shot if I remember exactly what it was like, or what the words inside it were, to be sure about them; still, very likely old Vidler would recollect, and I dessay it won't turn out to be necessa What the devil's that?"
If I can't manage it, just tell him that I think he ought to have given me a chance of congratulating him. May I ask when it is to be? Emma resumed an air of prudery, 'Before very long, I dessay. 'I wish you joy. Well, I mustn't talk longer now, but I'll do my best to look in this evening, and then we can all chat together. He laughed and she laughed back; and thereupon they parted.
'Why, says Rolleston, 'I want to get in, and I can't make them hear me. I wish you'd try what you can do, will you? The policeman comes slowly in to the gate. 'I dessay, he says jocularly. 'Is there anythink else? Come, suppose you move on. A curious kind of dread of he knows not what begins to creep over Wilfred at this. 'Move on? he cries, 'why should I move on?
Stone, I saw him do stunts for newspapers in two towns, and I wonder I didn't tumble to him in the spookshop. But I didn't I dessay because when I saw him doing his mind-readin' tricks outdoors he was blindfolded, which some concealed his natural scenery. Well, he hadn't more'n tripped over the Embury 'Welcome' mat, than I was onto him.
Dessay the water's fathoms deep. Just keep her head straight, and let the tide carry us on. Look out, my lads! There's another of them up yonder. See, Mr Rodd, sir them two nubbles? Them's his eyes. He just keeps his beautiful muddy carcase all hid under water and squints along the top with them pretty peepers of hisn to look out for his breakfast.
I dessay you're always well; I shouldn't mind if I was the same. She laughed, and made herself cough. 'I can't see why everybody shouldn't be well. Father says the world's made wrong, and it seems to me that's the truth. Perhaps it looks different to you, Miss Trent. 'You had better call me Thyrza, Bessie. That's my name. 'Is it? Well, I don't mind, if you don't.
"Nothing at all," replied Anita, "I went to see Mrs. Lawrence, as the chaplain asked me, and finished a little jacket she was knitting for her boy. She doesn't seem very strong." "And I dessay," said Mrs. McGillicuddy, who had held Anita in her arms when the girl was but a day old, "you saw all that cut glass and the rugs, as Mr. Broussard give to Lawrence. Them rugs!
Bunnett agreed with 'im, and said wot a pity it was everybody 'adn't got Bob Pretty's commonsense and good feeling. "'It ain't that, ses Bob, shaking his 'ead at him; 'it ain't to my credit. I dessay if Sam Jones and Peter Gubbins, and Charlie Stubbs and Dicky Weed 'ad been brought up the same as I was they'd 'ave been a lot better than wot I am. "He bid Mr.
'Aye, this air'll do yer, said the other. 'Where are yer stoppin? Costrells'? John nodded. 'They don't know nothin about my comin, but I dessay they'll find me somethin to sleep on. I'll 'ave my own place soon, and some one to look arter it. He drew himself up involuntarily, with the dignity that waits on property. A laugh, rather jeering than cordial, ran through the group of labourers.
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