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Goodman, "but another week I must 'ave, so I must get the money somehow. Peter can't spend much, the way he goes on." Sam gave a little cough. "I'll get a pound or two out of 'im," ses Mr. Goodman. Sam coughed agin. "Won't he think it rather funny?" he ses, arter a bit. "Not if it's managed properly," ses Mr. Good-man, thinking 'ard. "I'll tell you 'ow we'll do it.
Gipsies alone make a profession of it; but there are thousands and tens of thousands of humble families in which the good-wife, and even the good-man, resort to the grounds at the bottom of their teacups, to know whether the next harvest will be abundant, or their sow bring forth a numerous litter; and in which the young maidens look to the same place to know when they are to be married, and whether the man of their choice is to be dark or fair, rich or poor, kind or cruel.
"Well, Monsieur, to cut short discussion on this point, I will say, once for all, that death in foreign countries or on the field of battle is outside of our " "Then what are you insuring? Nothing at all!" cried Margaritis. "My bank, my Territorial Bank, rested upon " "Nothing at all?" exclaimed Gaudissart, interrupting the good-man. "Nothing at all?
Moreover, who does not know the repugnance which these people feel to the payment of the two or three thousand francs required at Charenton or in the private lunatic asylums? If any one had spoken to Madame Margaritis of Doctors Dubuisson, Esquirol, Blanche, and others, she would have preferred, with noble indignation, to keep her thousands and take care of the "good-man" at home.
Here he was suitably received by Fid, who raised him to his side; and, having placed him comfortably between the yard and the boom, he proceeded to secure him by a lashing that would give the tailor the proper disposition of his hands. "Bouse a bit on this waister!" called Richard, when he had properly secured the good-man; "so; belay all that."
In addition to these comforts, the good-man would now and then sally forth to the greenwood, and mark down a buck of season with his gun or his cross-bow; and the Father Confessor seldom refused him absolution for the trespass, if duly invited to take his share of the smoking haunch.
"Peter and Mr. Ginger Dick," ses Mr. Good-man. "But don't you trouble. You go 'ome and mend your trowsis." "But they're on the bus," ses Sam, staring. "Dick and Peter, I mean." Mr. Goodman shook his 'ead. "They got off. Didn't you see 'em?" he ses. "No," ses Sam, "I'll swear they didn't." "Well, it's my mistake, I s'pose," ses Peter's uncle.
You, and all and each of you, can qualify if need should be, that I have ever been a slaving and loving consort of this man who has deserted me in my age, leaving so many of his own children on my hands, to feed and to rear, besides" "What certainty is it," interrupted the landlord of the "Foul Anchor" most inopportunely, "that the good-man has absconded?
Fid cast a glance of far more than usual significance at the good-man, and even postponed his reply, until he had freshened his ideas by an ample addition to the morsel of weed which he had kept all along thrust into one of his cheeks.
"It ain't so 'orrid as I 'ad fancied," ses Sam, lap-ping up the rest very gentle. "'Ave you 'ad enough to do you all the good it ought to?" Mr. Goodman said that it was no good 'arf doing a thing, and p'r'aps he 'ad better 'ave one more; and arter Sam 'ad paid for the next two they went out arm-in-arm. "'Ow cheerful everybody looks!" ses Mr. Good-man, smiling.
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