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What d'ye mean? A furious red flush rose on Alick's cheeks, and he glared back into the face of the bent old man, who stood still so fixedly regarding himself. 'Mean? Why, just what I'm a-sayin' of! was the calm rejoinder. 'I've heard tell, went on Binks, undisturbed by Alick's wrathful looks, 'as Muster Price is the son of a reverend genelman as was pretty high up in the Church.
But there, if I can set set till I 'ear Stepney Church goin twelve I can earn my ten shillin a week, an keep the lot of 'em. Wot does any lidy or genelman want, a comin' meddlin down 'ere? Now, that's the middle an both ends on it. Done? Well, I dessay I is done. Lor, I ses to em in the orspital it do seem rummy to me to be layin abed like that. If Tom was 'ere, why, 'e'd "
'He only done what he ought. And he goes off in a sort of a croak, "'It ain't been all my fault, my God, says he. 'You made me that way, only You knows why. "And Red Beard chime in usky from underneath somewhere, "'That's it, ole pal, he says. 'It's for Him as made, us to explain us. "And I reck'n he pop off and the fat chap too." "Then he groan, does the Genelman." The Parson groaned too.
And presently sure enough, from somewhere adjacent rose the clank of a pump to the accompaniment of much splashing and gasping. "That'll do, Susie!" "Yes, ma'm." "Now you, Sammy, go an' lie down this moment. 'E'll be all right arter this, dearie. Susie!" "Yes, ma'm." "Go light a fire for this young genelman in Number Four. This moment." "Yes, ma'm." "The best chamber but one, dearie.
"Ah! and what might you have been doing in the hedge now?" "Think'n', m'lud." "And what were you thinking?" "I were think'n', m'lud, as the tall genelman here is a top-sawyer wi' 'is daddies, m'lud. I was." "Aha! so you've been watching, eh?" "Not watchin' oh no, m'lud; I just 'appened ter notice that's all, m'lud."
Babies' brougham only consists of a small covered cart, with a highly respectable donkey warranted not to proceed too fast attached to it. Look at this group at the gate. They can't quite understand what "the genelman" with the cloth over his head and a big brown box on three pieces of stick is going to do, but it is all right.
"We hain't got no " he was beginning, when he suddenly recognized his visitors and broke short off, staring at them with as much surprise as it is possible for human features to express. "Well, if it ain't the genelman from the Priory!" he exclaimed at last, with a whistle, which seemed to be his way of letting off the astonishment which would otherwise remain bottled up in his system.
"Ching just come ask young genelman likee walkee walkee." "Yes, allee likee walkee walkee velly much," said Barkins, imitating the Chinaman's squeak. "Why? Can you give us leave?" Ching shook his head. "Go ask offlicer. Go for walkee walkee, take Ching; you likee see something velly nice ploper?" "Yes," I cried eagerly. "Can you take us to see a Chinese theatre?" Ching closed his eyes and nodded.
Well, 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."
"Tell us what you can when you can." Knapp sipped his brandy. "It was the knives when they closed. That done me up. Ow, my God!" He shuddered. "If it hadn't been for the Genelman." "Yes?" said Kit eagerly. A glow lit the man's eye. The yellow of his cheek flushed ever so faintly. "I'd die for im," he said, "only he's died for me what pull his nose and all." "Is he dead then?" asked Kit.
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