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Updated: June 27, 2025
Then Peter Russet swallered something 'e was going to say and asked old Isaac very perlite to make it a quid for 'im because he was going down to Colchester to see 'is mother, and 'e didn't want to go empty-'anded. "You're a good son, Peter," ses old Isaac, "and I wish there was more like you. I'll come down with you, if you like; I've got nothing to do."
"Why, then, if you're goin' t' venture among that lot, you take this with ye, Mr. Geoffrey," and she thrust the poker into his hand. "You'll sure need it ah, do now!" But Ravenslee laughed and set it aside. "You'd better take it, Mr. Geoffrey; fists is fists, but gimme a poker every time! A poker ain't t' be sneezed at! What, goin' an' empty-'anded? Mr. Geoffrey, I'm surprised at you.
Then Peter Russet swallered something 'e was going to say and asked old Isaac very perlite to make it a quid for 'im because he was going down to Colchester to see 'is mother, and 'e didn't want to go empty-'anded. "You're a good son, Peter," ses old Isaac, "and I wish there was more like you. I'll come down with you, if you like; I've got nothing to do."
'More's been lost on market-days, as they say: our little girl's well provided for, for old Jarvis, 'e's a warm man. 'She won't 'ave a day's peace all 'er life, says I, 'goin' empty-'anded into that 'ouse. I know old Mother Jarvis a cat: we'd best tell the child, p'raps she won't marry 'im if she knows she's nothing to take to 'im, and, God forgive me, my 'eart jumped up at the thought.
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