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Ah, an' by hookey, I would, whether or no, if I was th' bloody rogue ye tell me for, 'stead of an 'ighly respectable genelman o' the road with a eye to business. So now turn out your pockets all an' quick about it." It was strange to see with what apparent eagerness each man stripped himself of such valuables as he possessed, all of which the highwayman appraised with expert eye.
'I do, indeed, answered Oliver. 'I have not slept under a roof since I left the country. 'Don't fret your eyelids on that score, said the young gentleman. 'I've got to be in London to-night; and I know a 'spectable old gentleman as lives there, wot'll give you lodgings for nothink, and never ask for the change that is, if any genelman he knows interduces you. And don't he know me? Oh, no!
"Are there any nice fellows around here? Any like me?" "De nicest young genelman 'round dis bay," replied Dick, "is Mr. Dab Kinzer. But he aint like you. Not nuff to hurt 'im." "Dab Kinzer!" exclaimed the stranger. "Where did he get his name?" "In de bay, I spect," said Dick, as he shoved his boat off. "Caught 'im wid a hook."
Then young Christopher mounts the rocking-horse of the establishment, the swinging-boats are quickly crammed up with passengers, and twenty or thirty more little minds are again set wondering as to why "the genelman" will wrap his head up in a piece of black cloth and cover his eyes whenever he wants to see them! And the Castle perambulator!
"Layin' pitchforks for yer feet same as the Psalmist says. Hosses is much the very same as men. Kilted cattle, as the sayin' is. Once they turn agin' you your number's up. And they got somefin' agin' you. No fault o' yours, I know godly genelman like you. But where it is there it is!" He sat in his buggy and wiped his dewy eye. "And there's the dorg, Mr. Joses. Big dorg, too!"
"No, no, young sir can't be I knows a genelman when I sees one, but it's no go Jerry's a rare desperate cove an' oncommon sly " "Then give him the water yourself " "Not me, sir!" "I tell you the man is faint with thirst and ill-usage " "Then let 'im faint. A young gent like you don't want nothin' to do wi' th' likes o' 'im let 'im faint "
Pompey would say after a vain attempt to coax him to share his hospitality. "I can't make he out nohow! Guess he tinks himself buckra ossifer and bery fine genelman, now de captin take um into cabin, sure; but, he no rale genelman to turn up nose at um ole frens!
"'Can't you pray, Mr. Piper? I begs him. 'You're a good un at that. Ave a go at em, I says. 'Maybe they'd listen to you. Sure-ly they can't set by and see a genelman like that chaw'd up in cold blood. "He didn't answer. But I could see his head pitch forward a bit. And I hears a kind of a mutter. "Then he stops, and I could see he were listenin, "'Go it, Mr. Piper, I says. 'Go it. Pitch it in.
Upon Oliver answering in the affirmative, the strange boy, whose name was Jack Dawkins, said, "I've got to be in London to-night; and I know a 'spectable old genelman as lives there, wot'll give you lodgings for nothink, and never ask for the change that is, if any genelman he knows interduces you." This offer of shelter was too tempting to be resisted, and Oliver trudged off with his new friend.
'Sir, I canna, wi' my little learning an' my common way, tell the genelman what will better aw this though some working men o' this town could, above my powers but I can tell him what I know will never do 't. The strong hand will never do 't. Vict'ry and triumph will never do 't.
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