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You wait till my 'usband comes 'ome. "'But I am your 'usband, I ses. 'Don't you know me, my pretty? Don't you know your pet sailor-boy? "She gave a screech like a steam-injin, and then she went next door and began knocking away like mad. Then I see that I 'ad gorn to number twelve instead of number fourteen.
'I thought you 'ad gorn 'ome. "'I was going, he ses, with a nasty oily little smile, 'and then it struck me all of a sudden 'ow lonely it was for you all alone 'ere, and I come back to keep you company. "He winked at something acrost the river as 'e spoke, and I stood there thinking my 'ardest wot was the best thing to be done. I couldn't get Mrs.
Just then steps sounded on the planks outside, and the voices of men were heard. "Great guns! Who left this 'ere spigot a-runnin'!" exclaimed one, coming hastily forward. "Look at the whey goin' galumphin out. Suthin' must hev gorn bust." A breathless silence settled on Zaidee and Helen. "There warn't nothin' a-runnin' when I went off to dinner," said another, "and I was the last feller out."
She scribbled one word, "Coming," on Bob's note, thrust it into an envelope and addressed it hastily, and then tapped on the wall between the servants' room and her own. Eliza appeared with the swiftness of a Jack-in-the-box, full of suppressed excitement. "Lor! I fought she was never goin'," she breathed. "Got it ready, Miss? The boy'll fink I've gorn an' eloped wiv it."
Wot with 'is foolishness and his missis's temper, I see I 'ad made a mess of it. He told me she had 'ardly spoke a word to 'im for two days, and when I said being a married man myself that it might ha' been worse, 'e said I didn't know wot I was talking about. I did a bit o' thinking arter he 'ad gorn aboard agin.
I said to Jim, "Why don't you tell the people, what we can do for them?" Jim then said, "why, dog gorn it, this boy and I can take you all through to California and not be troubled with the Indians if there is no more durned fools among you to be a-shooting squaws. But you will have to do just as we tell you to do." And looking over the ground he asked, "Who is your captain? I want to see him."
"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':"
"He is in love," ses Ginger, as soon as he could speak. "Or else 'e's gorn mad," ses Peter, watching 'im. "Which is it, Sam?" Sam made believe that he couldn't answer 'im because o' the tooth-brush, and arter he'd finished he 'ad such a raging toothache that 'e sat in a corner holding 'is face and looking the pictur' o' misery.
In the kitchen Eliza poured out a frantic appeal to Cook. "She's got Miss 'Cilia locked up the little red-'eaded cat! An' Master Wilfred gorn to fetch the Master! Oh, come on, Cookie darlin', an' we'll let 'er out." Cook shook her head slowly. "Not good enough," she said. "I got a pretty good place.
He is no longer the hale, stalwart man I first saw at Bill Harrison's. A little before the Christmas of 1906 he was laid up with a severe cold. But he was getting over that well, when, one Sunday, a broken man, almost decrepit, came stumbling to my cottage door. "The pore old lady ha' gorn," he said. "She ha' gorn fust arter all. Pore old dare.
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