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Several water-side characters were drinking beer at the lead-covered counter, waited upon by a sharp young woman, who seems to have replaced Bob Gliddery. Instead of the little room called "Cozy," where the Police Inspector drank burned sherry with Lightwood and Wrayburn, there was an apartment labelled "The Club." If The Jolly Fellowship Porters is still extant, this must be it.
'Here, Miss Abbey, was official rejoinder. 'After they have brought the body in, keep the crowd out, will you? And help Bob Gliddery to shut 'em out. 'All right, Miss Abbey. The autocratic landlady withdrew into the house with Riah and Miss Jenny, and disposed those forces, one on either side of her, within the half-door of the bar, as behind a breastwork.
Up that gravelly and gliddery ascent, which changes every groove and run at every sudden shower, but never grows any the softer up that the heavy boats must make clamber somehow, or not a single timber of their precious frames is safe.
'However, says Miss Abbey, cheering them up, 'you have done your duty like good and true men, and you had better come down and take something at the expense of the Porters. This they all do, leaving the daughter watching the father. To whom, in their absence, Bob Gliddery presents himself. 'His gills looks rum; don't they? says Bob, after inspecting the patient. Pleasant faintly nods.
At last the rush of forked water, where first it came over the lips of the fall, drove me into the middle, and I stuck awhile with my toe-balls on the slippery links of the pop-weed, and the world was green and gliddery, and I durst not look behind me.
The answer being By all means, Bob Gliddery received his instructions from Mr Inspector, and departed in a becoming state of alacrity engendered by reverence for the majesty of the law.
As she started up, and they all three looked at one another, it became a noise of clamouring voices and of the stir of feet; then all the windows were heard to be hastily thrown up, and shouts and cries came floating into the house from the river. A moment more, and Bob Gliddery came clattering along the passage, with the noise of all the nails in his boots condensed into every separate nail.
At last the rush of forked water, where first it came over the lips of the fall, drove me into the middle, and I stuck awhile with my toe-balls on the slippery links of the pop-weed, and the world was green and gliddery, and I durst not look behind me.
Don't look astonished. I ought to have begun with a word of explanation, but it's my way to make short cuts at things. I always was a pepperer. You Bob Gliddery there, put the chain upon the door and get ye down to your supper. With an alacrity that seemed no less referable to the pepperer fact than to the supper fact, Bob obeyed, and his boots were heard descending towards the bed of the river.
"Oh, but we must make the summit," exclaimed Marcia, taking up her alpenstock. "Why, we are all but there." "How does it look ahead?" inquired Frederic, walking along the buttress. "Heard you chopping ice." "I was cutting steps across the tail end of a little glacier. It's a gliddery place, but the going looks all right once you get past.
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