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He got quite uneasy till 'e came 'ome the next night and found the best part of a loaf o' bread, a quarter o' butter, and a couple o' chops he 'ad got in for 'is supper had gorn; and then when he said 'e was glad she 'ad got 'er appetite back she turned round and said that he grudged 'er the food she ate.
"We might look in on our way," ses Sam, arter Ginger and Peter 'ad both made eyes at 'im. "We're going out to spend the evening." "The more the merrier," ses his nevy. "Well, so long; I expect she's waiting for me." He got up and said good-bye, and arter he 'ad gorn, Sam and the other two shook their leads together and said what a pity it was to be twenty- one.
"It only shows how easy it is to misjudge one's fellow-creeturs. When you went away sudden four years ago, I says to myself, 'Ben Prout, I says, 'make up your mind to it, that two quid has gorn." The smile vanished from Mr. Carter's face, and a sudden chill descended upon the company. "Two quid?" he said, stiffly. "What two quid?" "The two quid I lent you," said Mr. Prout, in a pained voice.
'I promised 'im not to tell anybody; but I don't know wot to do for the best. "'Well, p'r'aps his godfather will 'old on to 'im, I ses. "'He won't tell 'im anything about going to sea, she ses, shaking 'er little head. 'He's just gorn to try and bo bo-borrow some money to go away with. "She bust out sobbing, and it was all I could do to get the godfather's address out of 'er.
He screamed, and struck wildly at the cold cruel marble, and found it was soft, yielding netting after all. But it was a worse horror to find that he had thought it marble than if he had found it to be marble. He sprang from his cot. "I am going mad," he cried. "Goin'?... Gorn, more like," observed the disrobing room-corporal. "Why donchew keep orf the booze, Maffewson? You silly gapin' goat.
She jumped too, and, arter the conductor had 'elped 'er up off of 'er knees and taken her arms away from his waist, I'm blest if he didn't turn on me and ask me why I 'adn't left her at 'ome. We got to the wharf just afore six. The John Henry 'ad gorn, but the skipper 'ad done all the 'arm he could afore he sailed, and, if I 'adn't kept my temper, I should ha' murdered arf a dozen of 'em.
"I took the skipper round to the 'Bull's Head' arter she 'ad gorn, and I wouldn't let 'im say a word until he had 'ad two pints. He felt better then, and some o' the words 'e used surprised me. "'Wot's to be done? he ses at last. 'You see 'ow it is, Bill. "'Can't you get 'im away? I ses. 'Who is she, and wot's 'er name?
Sam laughed the sort of laugh a pal 'ad once give him a black eye for. "Twenty pounds!" he ses; "twenty pounds! 'Ave you gorn out of your mind, or wot? I'll give you a couple of quid for it." "Well, it's all right, captin," ses the man, "there's no 'arm done. I'll try somebody else or p'r'aps there'll be a big reward for it. I don't believe it was bought for a 'undred pounds."
The fat 'un's bin 'avin' one or two around the corner, and it's gorn and got into 'is 'ead!" The driver of the cab, who till now had been ostentatiously unaware that there was any sort of disturbance among the lower orders, suddenly became humanly inquisitive. "What's it all about?" he asked, swinging around and addressing George's head. "Exactly what I want to know," said George.
"Going to 'ave your pocket picked?" ses Ginger, staring at 'im, when 'e had finished. "I shall be watched over," ses Sam. "He's gorn stark, staring mad," ses Ginger. "Wot a good job it is he's got me and you to look arter 'im, Peter." "Wot d'ye mean?" ses Sam. "Mean?" ses Ginger. "Why, it's a put-up job to rob you, o' course. I should ha' thought even your fat 'ead could ha' seen that':"
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