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It would never do to allow yonder well-tilled acres, that sumptuous dwelling, all those flocks of sheep, and herds of sleek cattle to pass into the hands of any other girl. Imagine pulling down the boundary line and joining the two farms into one! Imagine how your "guv'nor" as this well-bred Mr. Ham styles him would open his eyes if any other person should nave the temerity to ask for Miss Aster.
"I don't want to be too 'ard on you, but at the same time I can't let my man suffer. I'll make it as easy as I can, and I order you to pay 'im five shillings a week till the twenty-five pounds is cleared off." I laughed; I couldn't 'elp it. I just stood there and laughed at 'im. "If you don't," ses the skipper, "then I shall lay the facts of the case afore the guv'nor.
His eye was blackened and the skin across his cheek was torn and just healing from a fresh cut. "Well, well, well! What have you been up to, Barlow? A prize fight?" snapped Clemm. "Aw, guv'nor, quit yer kiddin'. Did ye ever hear of me bein' in a fight? Nix. I tried to work dis needle gag over in Brooklyn an' I got run outen de t'eayter on me neck. Dere ain't no luck.
He moved uncomfortably in his chair, and laughed consciously. "Why, no, guv'nor, since you put it that way, man to man, I don't." "Then why did you say what you did? I can't blame you for harboring some resentment against me because I interfered with your plans in that railway deal, but this statement is so easily refuted that I wonder why you made it.
"Don't gape like a perishin' fish; come on up-stairs an' knock the Guv'nor down like 'e tells ye an' 'arves on the money, mind; it was me as taught ye all you know or ever will, so 'arves on the money, Joe, 'arves on the money. Come on, Joe d'j 'ear?" "Crumbs!" said Joe. "Look at 'im.
"There ain't no doubt that that gold was carried off early this morning must ha' been between the time I left Jim and sun-up, 'cause they'd want to do the job in darkness. Ain't no reasonable doubt, neither, that the motor-car what they used came here into Norcaster. Now, guv'nor, I ask you where is it possible they'd make for?
Lavender; "a striking instance of hereditary instinct." Blink, unable to persuade the hat, mounted it with her fore-paws and trod it under. "Ooray!" shouted the crowd. "Give us a shilling, guv'nor, an' I'll get it for yer?" "Thank you, my boy," said Mr. Lavender, producing a shilling. The boy the same boy who had thrown it in stepped into the water and waded towards the hat.
Why, 'ow will you get along without a cat? The mice is 'orrible in this 'ere road. Come, guv'nor, I'll tell you what I'll do. You shall 'ave a bargain," said Pop. I insisted that the tortoise prize-winner should be taken away, and the next day I stopped the advertisement and resigned myself to despair. A week after Peter had disappeared I heard the voice of my friend Pop at the door.
Near Charing Cross, Leander told the driver to take him down Parliament Street, and stop at the entrance to Scotland Yard; there the cabman, at Leander's request, descended, and stared to find him huddled up under the gleaming pale arms of a statue. "Guv'nor," he remarked, "that warn't the fare I took up, I'll take my dying oath!" "It's all right," said Leander.
Reginald, unmanned enough as it was, had not the heart to wait longer, and walked hurriedly to the door, followed by the policeman. This movement once more raised the faithful Love to a final effort. "Let 'im go, do you 'ear?" shouted he, rushing down the stairs after them. "I'll do for yer if you don't. Oh, guv'nor, take me too, can't yer?"
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