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I dursn't tell 'im that I 'ad wrote the letter, but I thought if he 'ad one or two more he'd see that some one was 'aving a game with 'im, and that it might do 'im good. Besides which it was a little amusement for me. Arter everybody was in their beds asleep I sat on a clerk's stool in the office and wrote 'im another letter from Dorothy.
"Billy, my lad, I must have a sleep, but I dursn't do it unless you keep a sharp eye on the captain. He's after mischief, I'm quite sure o' that, so give me a tremendous dig in the ribs if he offers to rise from his seat. Mind what I say now, lad. Our lives may depend on it." Billy promised to be watchful, and in less than two minutes afterwards Gaff was sunk in deep repose.
Tommy burst into a laugh at this, and Peekins, feeling somewhat relieved, smiled idiotically through his tears. "Well now, my lad," said Bax, leaning forward in a confidential way which quite won the affection of the tiger, and patting him on the shoulder, "I would advise you strongly to go back." "Oh! sir, but I can't," said Peekins dolefully. "I dursn't. My life is miserable there.
He paused an instant; then continued: "I might have crossed to England at the time, and slain him. Should that have satisfied me? What is death but peace and rest?" "There is a hell, we are told," Mr. Caryll reminded him. "Ay," was the answer, "we are told. But I dursn't risk its being false where Ostermore is concerned.
"Perhaps not," she said, shaking her head nevertheless. "But I dursn't go with you. I must stay here to stop them going the right way after you for one thing. And then you didn't know it, but, bad as he is, Mick's my brother. I dursn't get him into trouble." "Mick's your bruvver!" repeated Pam; "the same as bruvver is to me. And he speaks so naughty to you, Diana.
In three corners remains of such root stores were lying; in the fourth, the corner behind the door, nearest the sea, some boards were laid on the floor, and on them flower-pots containing stalks of withered plants and bulbs that had never sprouted. "They're mine," she said. "Day dursn't touch them;" and saying this, she fell to work with eager feverishness, removing the pots and boards.
"It's the jumps, Bill," gasped the other, "the 'orrors they've got me and no mistake. As I'm a livin' man, as I was a shovin' of that there truck, I saw a imp a gashly imp, Bill, stick its hugly 'ed over the side and say, 'Tommy, it ses, jest like that it ses, 'Tommy, I wants you! I dursn't go near it, Bill. I'll get leave, and go 'ome and lay up it glared at me so 'orrid, Bill, and grinned ugh!
And I'm set on trying it, lad, the more so as, by long and short, I dursn't stay in Shrewsbury no longer. So you'll be so good as go and see the old mother tomorrow, and tell her I be gone to sea, and I'll send her home silks, and satins, and diamonds, too, maybe, and I'll come home some day rich as creases, as I heard parson say once." "I hope you will, Joe.
But how am I to tell her father? I dursn't do it, Sidney; for my life, I dursn't! I'd go an' see her where she's lodging see, I've got the address wrote down here but I should do more harm than good; she'd never pay any heed to me at the best of times, an' it isn't likely she would now. 'Look here if she's made no attempt to hide away, you may be quite sure there's no truth in what Mrs.
First I used to think as he couldn't afford it, and long to send him up a bit of my own dinner, but dursn't for the life of me too grand for that, by ever so till one day little Susie there comes a-running down the stairs, and she sings out, with her face as red as ever a boiled lobster: 'Looky see, mother! Oh, do 'e come and looky see!
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