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"Kite right, kite right," replied Big Chief, with a deep sigh, "you say it am nat'ral. Good, good, so 'tis. Now, Jowin," continued the savage chief, with intense earnestness, "you's free to go when you pleases." "Oh, gammon!" replied Jarwin, with an unbelieving grin. "Wot is gammon?" demanded Big Chief, with a somewhat disappointed look.
The wreck was only reported four days ago." "Started Friday morning, sir." "Gammon!" "Rasher to you, sir." "You haven't lost much time, at any rate. What's your speed?" "About a hundred and ninety. Whereabouts was the wreck, sir?" "A hundred miles or so up the coast, according to the men of Underhill's party with me." "Then I'll bid you good-bye for the present. I'll tell him you're coming."
Sally, you ain't a-goin' to school without brushin' your 'air? Do see after your sister, Janey, an' don't let her look such a slap-cabbage. Beetrice, stop that 'ollerin'; it fair mismerizes me!" Having silently thrust five letters under Mr. Gammon's door, Moggie gave a very soft tap, and half whispered a request that the lodger would repeat his orders. Mr. Gammon did so with perfect good humour.
"There be odd chops and changes in this here world, for sartin," observed Coble. "Mayn't it all be gammon?" said Bill Spurey. "Gammon, for why?" replied Jemmy Ducks. "That's the question," rejoined Spurey. "It appears to me that he must have had a touch of conscience," said Coble. "Or else he must have seen a ghost," replied Smallbones.
"But you know something about him. He tells me you do. He wants to see you. There's only one thing I ask has he been doing wrong? Oh, do tell me that!" Gammon protested that he knew nothing of the kind, and added that he had only seen the man once, for a minute, now more than a month ago. "And you kept it from me!" said his friend reproachfully. "I didn't think you'd have done that, Mr. Gammon!"
On one condition I promise to get you out of this hobble with a whole skin; but if you go to any of your d d gammon, by G , before two hours are passed, you will have as many holes in your carcase as a target. 'Name your conditions, said I, 'and if they consist with honour, I will never balk at the offer. 'Here they are: you are to be shot to-night, by Captain Oliver's orders.
You shall have one of our cards when we send them out, though I cannot say you have behaved accordingly. The reason I do not invite you to the wedding is because Mr. Parish's friends are very particular." After reading these remarkable lines again and again Mr. Gammon was much disposed to shout; but something restrained him.
Gammon's knowledge really was; but she had given her confidence beyond recall, and, though with many vicissitudes of feeling, she still wished to keep Gammon sole ally in this strange affair.
"It's beastly hard lines that that woman and her daughter shouldn't have a penny!" "I agree with you. By the by, you have told her?" "Yes, this morning." "Gammon, you are so impulsive. Still, I suppose she had to know. Yes, I suppose it was inevitable. Will she molest his relatives do you think?" "She?" Gammon reflected. "I can't quite see her doing it.
As the day drew near Gammon felt that this state of worrying suspense was growing intolerable. Polly's suspicions were louder, her temper became uncertain; once or twice she forgot herself and used language calculated to cause a breach of the peace.
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