Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 15, 2025
Well, I can sy this I've done my duty by the girl, an' she's never learnt anythin' but good from me. Of course I ain't always been in wot yer might call flourishing circumstances, but I've always set her a good example, as she could tell yer so 'erself if she wasn't speechless. Mrs. Kemp paused for a moment's reflection.
"If I didn't forget altogether! I've so much to see to, and the missus ill in bed with bronchitis, and Miss Ethel run off her feet, and not too fit 'erself with that cold as 'ud be called influenza if it wasn't for frightening the lodgers. Whatever it is, it's going through the 'ouse, and Mr. Brock seems to have got it bad.
"'There he is, ses Uncle Dick. 'That's the man! "Mrs. Muffit walked up to 'im, and my 'art a'most stopped beating. Her face was the colour of beetroot with temper, and you could 'ave heard her breath fifty yards away. "'Ho! she says, planting 'erself in front of Artful 'Arry, 'so you're the man that ses you're my 'usband, are you? "'That's all right, ses 'Arry, 'it's all a mistake.
"For," mused Briggs gravely, "a lady 'as responsibilities, and 'owever she forgets 'erself, appearances 'as to be kep' up." With the afternoon, the fog which had hung over the city all day, deepened and darkened. Thelma had lunched with Mrs. Lorimer, and had enjoyed much pleasant chat with that kindly, cheerful old lady.
When pore old Bill went they 'ad a Friendly Lead at the 'King's Head' and got his missis pretty nearly seventeen pounds." "And I believe we'd get more than that for your old woman," said Mr. Kidd. "There's no kids, and she could keep 'erself easy. Not that I want to encourage you to make away with yourself." Mr. Gibbs scowled and, tilting his mug, peered gloomily into the interior.
'E say 'Gyp you are ze ver' devil 'erself! 'Ere, but this ruby I don't care much for rubies but this one 'ave a real fine story." And so one by one the stones were taken up and held a moment, some to be discarded with a name or a forgetful shrug, and some to linger a while longer whilst she recalled their little ribald histories.
"Not that I should mind 'er knowing much," he ses, "seeing that she's took such a fancy to you." "Ah, I was going to speak to you about that," ses Rupert. "Forwardness is no name for it; if she don't keep 'erself to 'erself, I shall chuck the whole thing up." The manager coughed behind his 'and. "And go back to the Army?" he ses.
'Carn't abide them things, commented Elizabeth; 'they bust sometimes and blows folks up. 'We have no outside help, I continued. 'An' a good thing, too. One place I was in the char 'elped 'erself to things an' it was me who was blamed fer it. 'We have no gas-cooker. 'Well, that's all right, then. Don't understand 'em. Give me a proper kitchen range, that's all I ask. I looked up hopefully.
"No, no, there won't be no cosy place given to me; I'm no more worth than an old shoe now, Missie, and I'm to be turned out, the lady said so 'erself; said as I must go to Exeter to live with me niece Nettie, and 'er don't want us Nettie don't and whatever shall I do without I 'ave Duckie and the plum tree?"
Bob Keeley cried for days, cried so much, in fact, over what he considered 'a wicked murder' that his mother sent for 'Passon' to console him. And Walden, with his usual patience, listened to the lad's sobbing tale: "Which the little beast wor my friend!" he gasped amid his tears "An' he wor Kitty's friend too! Kitty's cryin' 'erself sick, same as me!
Word Of The Day
Others Looking