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"I'm blessed if you fellows haven't been and breakfasted," said Captain Fooks. "That's about it," said the Squire. "You must be uncommon fond of getting up early." "Do you know who gets the worm?" asked Mr. Pepper. "Oh, bother that," said Cox. "There's nothing I hate so much as being told about that nasty worm," said Captain Fooks. "I don't want a worm." "But the early birds do," said Mr. Pepper.
Don't you think so?" "You see I wasn't born to anything better," said Mr. Pepper. Just at this moment Cox and Fooks came out of the house. They had not as yet breakfasted, but had thought that a mouthful of air in the stable-yard might enable them to get through their toast and red herrings with an amount of appetite which had not as yet been vouchsafed to them.
At twelve they were joined by Fooks and another gay spirit, and they eat chops and drank stout and listened to songs at Evans's till near two. Cox and Fooks said that they had never been so jolly in their lives; but Ralph, though he eat and drank as much and talked more than the others, was far from happy.
Could it be that she herself felt an interest in what concerned him? "Ah me," he said to himself, "how much better would it have been to have learned something, to have fitted myself for some high work; and to have been able to choose some such woman as this for my wife!" And all that had been sacrificed to horses at the Moonbeam, and little dinners with Captain Fooks and Lieutenant Cox!
Fortune could never give him the opportunity of doing that pleasantly, in the field, as might happen any day to his happy friends, Captain Fooks and Lieutenant Cox; but he was determined that he would accustom himself to stand fire; and that, therefore, he would never run away from a dun.
And yet what is a gentleman to do when his demand for further goods at the old shop is met by a request for a little ready money? We know what Ralph Newton did at the establishment in Conduit Street. But then Mr. Neefit was a very peculiar man. Cox had just lighted his cigar, and Fooks was filling his pipe when Ontario Moggs entered the room.
It fooks as though they didn't think we fell in, but had come down on purpose, and had some way of getting out as easy, and they're on the look out for us." "Maybe, Mickey, there's some other way of coming in, that we haven't been able to find." "I hoped so a while ago, but I've guv it up.
"Neefit has gone mad lately," said Captain Fooks, with a good-natured determination to stand by his friend in misfortune. "But how about the girl, Newton?" asked his lordship. "You may have her yourself, Poll, if she don't prefer a young shoemaker, to whom I believe she's engaged.
You are sure you won't take a cigar?" Moggs was quite sure that he wouldn't take a cigar, and retired, thanking Ralph as though some excellent arrangement had been made which would altogether prevent further difficulties. "That's the softest chap I ever saw," said Lieutenant Cox. "I wish my fellows would treat me like that," said Captain Fooks.
"I didn't take too much last night, and I eat my breakfast 'earty this morning." "There is one for you, young man," said Captain Fooks. Whereupon the Squire laughed heartily. Mr. Horsball went on nodding his head, intending to signify his opinion that he had done his work thoroughly; Mr.
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