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"Look here!" ses the skipper, speaking very slow, "I've got an idea, wot'll settle it p'raps. You get outside," he ses, turning sharp on the two little boys. One o' the draymen 'elped 'em to go out, and 'arf a minute arterwards a stone came over the gate and cut the potman's lip open. Boys will be boys. "Now!" ses the skipper, turning to the woman, and smiling with conceitedness.
You're to tell Leach," shouted Bainton, "that Miss Vancourt is mistress 'ere, and her orders is to be obeyed at the last moment! Which you might ha' understood without splittin' my throat to tell ye, if ye had a little more sense, which, lackin', 'owever, can't be 'elped. What are ye afeard of, eh?" "Mr.
"Dear Sir, It is quite true that I am the porter of Brikespeare College, and that I 'elped the Warden down when the young man was shooting at him, as Mr. Boulter has said in his letter. The young man who was shooting at him was Mr. Smith, the same that is in the photograph Mr. Boulter sends. Yours respectfully, Samuel Barker." Gould handed the two letters across to Moon, who examined them.
"'Let's go down into the cabin, she ses, at last, with a little shiver; 'it makes me melancholy sitting here and thinking of the "might-have- beens." "I got up first and 'elped her up, and, arter both staring hard at the cook, wot didn't seem to know 'is place, we went down into the cabin.
"Arter all, a man can't 'elp winning a prize," ses Bill Chambers, looking round. "I couldn't," ses Bob. He sat down and 'elped hisself out o' Sam Jones's baccy-box; and one or two got up on the quiet and went outside to listen to wot was going on down the road.
I thought I should ha' choked, and, judging by the way they banged me on the back, Bob and the cook thought so too. They 'elped me to a chair when I got better, and I sat there 'elpless while the cap'n went on talking. "'I'm no mischief-maker, he ses; 'and, besides, p'r'aps he's been punished enough.
Sam considered this for a while, and ended by drawing a folded scrap of paper from his trouser-pocket. "I don't tell no more than can't be 'elped, missie. You just list'n to this." He read: Dear Brother 'Enery, This comes opin' to find you well as it leaves me at Stratford. M. sends her love, an' you will be pleased to 'ear she grows beautifuller every day an' in character likewise.
I did not care, I say; I had loved my vases and in that moment I hated Elizabeth. But she began to speak before I did. 'It isn't as if I'd been unlucky I couldn't ha' 'elped that. But I know when I'm in the wrong' she unfolded a parcel she had in her hand as she spoke 'so I went out larst night and bought these to replace what I broke.
Dressed up to the nines she was, and they walked down the street with a feeling that everybody was looking at em. One thing that 'elped to spoil the evening was that Mrs. Gill wouldn't go into public'ouses, but to make up for it she went into sweet-stuff shops three times and 'ad ices while they stood and watched 'er and wondered 'ow she could do it.
"Escaped!" repeated the policeman, who entered at the moment with two comrades; "impossible! I tied 'im so that no efforts of his own could avail 'im. Somebody must 'ave 'elped 'im." "The carving-knife helped him," said Miss Stivergill, with a look of dignity. "Perhaps, instead of speculating how he escaped, policeman, it would be better to pursue him.
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