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Updated: June 6, 2025
"Are you coming out o' my cab?" ses the cabman, "or 'ave I got to put you out?" "You put me out!" ses Sam, who 'ad tied 'is clothes up with string while 'e was in the stable, and 'ad got his arms free. The cabman looked at 'im 'elpless for a moment, and then he got up and drove off agin.
Reade at last. The substance of her information, freed from extraneous matter, was as follows: "Oh! 'ealthy? It'll live, I've no doubt, if that's what you mean; but 'elpless...! There, 'elpless is no word.... Learn 'im to open his mouth, learn 'im to close 'is 'ands, learn 'im to go to sleep, learn 'im everythink.
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.
"A lie, it be a lie, a lie!" cried the Ancient, "'twere Old Nick, I see un plain as I see you." "Why, ye see, you 'm gettin' dre'fful old an' 'elpless, Gaffer," chuckled Old Amos again, "an' your eyes plays tricks wi' you." "Ah, to be sure they do!" added Job; whereupon Old Amos chuckled so much that he was taken by a violent fit of coughing.
"Paper and pencil, you kep callin for, Mr Weener an you that elpless you couldnt old up your own and. You said you ad to write a book the Istory of the Grass. To purge yourself, you said. Lor, Mr Weener, doctors don't prescribe purges no more that went out before the first war."
Two miles from home she stopped and eyed him fixedly. "If I don't get these boots off, Alf, I shall be a 'elpless cripple for the rest of my days," she murmured. "My ankle's gone over three times." "But you can't take 'em off here," said Mr. Jobson, hastily. "Think 'ow it would look." "I must 'ave a cab or something," said his wife, hysterically. "If I don't get 'em off soon I shall scream."
"I try not to think of it, and night and day he's haunting me. I try not to think of it. I've been for easy-going all my life. But I'm that worried and afraid, with death and ruin threatened and evil all about me! I don't know what to do! My own sister's son, and me a widow woman and 'elpless against his doin's!" She put down the sticks she held upon the fender, and felt for her handkerchief.
He was pleased to see 'ow anxious they all looked, and when they did come to the shop 'e set up a laugh that old Cook said chilled the marrer in 'is bones. He stood looking in a 'elpless sort o' way at his wife and Emma, and then at last he ses, "There it is; and a fair bargain at the price." "I s'pose you ain't been drinking?" ses Charlie. "Wot's the matter with it?" ses Mrs. Cook flaring up.
Lord love him, 'e was always a-doin' of it; many a pore soul, male and female, 'e's saved from the river ah, and worse as well, I know ekally ready wi' fist or purse, ah, by Goles, an' vat vas better, with 'ope for the 'elpless an' 'elp for them as it seemed nothin' nor nobody could reach 'cept the law a friend to them as thought they 'ad no friend but death.
"A murder?" listlessly repeated Rose Cameron, rising on her elbow, and taking the tea-cup in her hand. "Ay, ma'am, the most hawfullest murder as ever you 'eard of, on an' 'elpless old gent, away up at a place in Scotland called Lone!" "EH!" exclaimed Rose Cameron, starting, and nearly letting fall her tea-cup.
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