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It was already dark as dark at least as a clear night in the English June can be when Skinner or his head at any rate came into the bar of the Jolly Drovers and said: "Ello! You 'aven't 'eard anything of thith 'ere thtory bout my 'enth, 'ave you?" "Oh, 'aven't we!" said Mr. Fulcher.
From time to time a block occurred, and the crowd stood motionless, waiting patiently until they could move ahead. In one of these sudden blocks Chook, who was craning his neck to watch the vegetable stalls, felt someone pushing, and turning his head, found himself staring into the eyes of Pinkey, the red-haired. "'Ello, fancy meetin' yous," cried Chook, his eyes dancing with pleasure.
But suddenly, from the corner of Pitt Street, appeared a strange figure of a man, roaring out a song in the voice of one selling fish. Every head turned. "'Ello," said Mrs Jones, "Froggy's on the job to-day." The singer was a Frenchman with a wooden leg, dressed as a sailor.
He looked at her for a moment, and then turned suddenly and went below as if pretending to go down for his things. I noticed that Mitchell who hadn't seemed to be noticing anything in particular followed him down. When they came on deck again we were right alongside. "'Ello, Nell!" said the digger to the eldest daughter. "'Ello, father!" she said, with a sort of gasp, but trying to smile.
They climbed in among the company; shared, lightly, their bread and wine; heard with momentary interest the latest news of the great war; spoke English and French in alternating clauses; inquired after the coterie's four young heroes at the French front, but only by stealth and out of Aline's hearing; and cried to Cupid, "'Ello, 'Ector! comment ça va-t-il?
''Ello, old girl! he cried, throwing his dinner basket carelessly on the floor with an affectation of joviality and resting his hands on the table to support himself. 'I've come at last, you see. Ruth left off sewing, and, letting her hands fall into her lap, sat looking at him. She had never seen him like this before.
Jimmie Dale was standing in the doorway of a passage that prefaced a rear exit to the lane. He moved aside to allow the other to pass. "'Ello, Bristol," he returned dispassionately. Bristol Bob went on along down the passage, and Jimmie Dale shuffled slowly after him.
'Ee takes 'is wine and 'is beer like a gentleman, 'ee does, and 'ee don't 'ave no use for Billy Breen. Billy, 'ee's a beast, and t' manager, 'ee kicks un hout. But supposin' Billy wants to stop bein' a beast, and starts a-tryin' to be a man again, and w'en 'ee gets good an' dry, along comes some un and says, "'Ello, Billy, 'ave a smile," it hain't picters nor magazines 'ud stop un then.
Morel had a warm way of telling a story. He made one feel Taffy's cunning. "He's a brown 'un," he would answer, "an' not very high. Well, he comes i' th' stall wi' a rattle, an' then yo' 'ear 'im sneeze. "'Ello, Taff, you say, 'what art sneezin' for? Bin ta'ein' some snuff? "An' 'e sneezes again. Then he slives up an' shoves 'is 'ead on yer, that cadin'. "'What's want, Taff? yo' say."
The school at first was for poor children; but later Philip IV established here a convent for orphan girls of good family. *las Salesas*: convent of the nuns of Our Lady of the Visitation. *ello ninguna tenía: ello es que ninguna tenía*; 'it is a fact that not one of them had. *vamos allá*: 'no one else will. *Algarbe*: Algarve, province in the extreme south of Portugal.
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