Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 15, 2025
"'Well, I ses, 'ardly knowing wot to make of 'er, 'she ought to be up this tide; but there's no reckoning on wot an old washtub with a engine like a sewing-machine inside 'er will do. "'Oh, indeed! she ses, leaving off smiling very sudden. 'Oh, indeed! My husband might 'ave something to say about that. "'Your 'usband? I ses. "'Captain Pratt, she ses, drawing 'erself up. 'I'm Mrs. Pratt.
"'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.
"You see, she's my own sister." "And my own sister's child," Webb deplored. "Of course, she ain't quite as close to me as she is to you, but she's nigh enough to make me feel plumb ashamed. I've always tuck pride in both you gals; but lawsy me, if Ann is goin' to gaum 'erself from head to foot like a pig learnin' to root, why, I reckon I'll jest hang my head in shame."
"Now, then," Calendar proposed, "Mr. Kirkwood aside peace be with him! let's get down to cases." "Wot's the row?" asked the captain. "The row, Cap'n, is the Hallam female, who has unexpectedly shown up in Antwerp, we have reason to believe with malicious intent and a private detective to add to the gaiety of nations." "Wot's the odds? She carn't 'urt us without lyin' up trouble for 'erself."
"Yes, I hear," said Esther, speaking like one in a dream; "don't she care for her baby, then?" "She used to care for them, but if they had all lived I should like to know where she'd be. There 'as been five of them that's the fifth so, instead of them a-costing 'er money, they brings 'er money. She 'as never failed yet to suit 'erself in a situation as wet-nurse." "And they all died?"
She's always asking me for more, for one thing; but, then women alway do. And look 'ow bad it is for her saving money like that on the sly. She might grow into a miser, pore thing. For 'er own sake I ought to get hold of it, if it's only to save her from 'erself." Mr. Chase's face reflected the gravity of his own. "You're the only man I can trust," continued Mr.
If there is one thing I object to in a servant it is a disposition to cheap finery. "'Er own daughter was sitting there beside 'er with 'alf a dozen silver bangles on 'er wrist, and a sort of thing 'anging around 'er neck, as, 'ad it been real, would 'ave been worth perhaps a thousand pounds. But Emma wanted a job, so she kept 'er thoughts to 'erself.
Say what you like, there's good in all of 'em even in old Mother Flannigan 'erself and 'specially when she's got a drop inside 'er. Fuddle old Moll a bit, and she'd give you the very shift off her back. Don't I thank the Lord, that's all, I'm not built like you! Why, the woman isn't born I can't get on with. All's fish that comes to my net. Oh, to be young, Dick, and to love the girls!
"I 'eard it from that French woman, Dinah Mer I never can pernounce the name," continued Mrs. Rickett. "Pore creature, what a 'orrible end; though it's a mercy it was so sudden like. But, as I was saying, sir, she lodged in my 'ouse last spring, and she come back only three days before the murder. She never 'ad much to say for 'erself, an' I judged she was stiff and proud.
'E's one of the born-tireds, 'e is, as poor Jane might 'ave seen for 'erself, if she 'ad only looked at 'im, instead of listening to 'im. "But that's courtship all the world over old and young alike, so far as I've been able to see it," was the opinion of Mrs. Wilkins. "The man's all eyes and the woman all ears. They don't seem to 'ave any other senses left 'em.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking