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Updated: May 20, 2025
"She reads the paper to me every Sunday arternoon, mostly breach of promise cases, and she'd 'ave me up for it as soon as look at me. She's got 'eaps and 'eaps of love-letters o' mine." "Love-letters!" ses Alf, staring. "Love-letters when you live in the same house!" "She started it," ses his uncle; "she pushed one under my door one morning, and I 'ad to answer it.
"Stewardess." "Yes, Miss?" "I shall die." "Oh no, Miss, don't say so. "Don't give way to it, Miss. You've no idea what a happytite you'll 'ave in a few days. You'll be soon able to eat hoceans of soup and 'eaps of fat pork, and " She stops abruptly, for Miss Pritty has gone into sudden convulsions, in the midst of which she begs the stewardess, quite fiercely, to "Go away."
Their work was done when it 'adn't begun, they was younger nor me an you; Their choice it was plain between drownin in 'eaps an bein mashed by the screw, An' they stood an' was still to the "Birken'ead" drill, soldier an sailor too!
There must be 'eaps of people wanting a man like you. It's for you to decide. That's all I've got to say five bob a week till pore George 'as got 'is money back, or else I put the case afore the guv'nor. Wot did you say?" I said it agin, and, as 'e didn't seem to understand, I said it once more. "Please yourself," 'e ses, when I 'ad finished.
I sleep 'eaps better now." She drew her hurt leg up and down in the bed. "Doctor, I 'd be all right, certain sure, if you let me out for arf-an-hour. Sister let me sit out for ever so long yestiday, an' while she was dustin' out the men's ward I practised walkin' all the lenth of the room an' back." "When I told you never, on any account!" the Sister scolded.
"'E knocks 'er abart," said Bert, with enthusiasm. "No, 'e don't, cos 'e's dead; she poisoned 'im slow and gradual, so that nobody didn't know. Now she wants to marry a lord, with 'eaps and 'eaps of money. 'E's got a wife already, but she's going to poison 'er, too." "She's a bad lot," said Bert with growing hostility.
When 'e was all well again 'e told strange tales about the lot of them havin' boarded the vessel and there bein' gold all over the decks bars of it with the rain fallin' all about it piled in 'eaps and 'e said the sailors weren't like common sailors yer knew, but all in silks with cocked hats and the gold lyin' all about
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