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Updated: June 18, 2025
It isn't easy for a good man with a road mechanic's knowledge and five years' experience, racing and otherwise, to place himself nowadays, when any groom can get made a slap-bang "shuffer" for five pounds at a murder-shop, and any old coachman is young enough to put his guv'nor in the ditch.
There must be 'eaps of people wanting a man like you. It's for you to decide. That's all I've got to say five bob a week till pore George 'as got 'is money back, or else I put the case afore the guv'nor. Wot did you say?" I said it agin, and, as 'e didn't seem to understand, I said it once more. "Please yourself," 'e ses, when I 'ad finished.
Coming to the first of the dim shapes, he grasped it and thereby propelled the skiff to another beyond. These indistinct shapes were the piles supporting the structure of a wharf. "Good night, guv'nor!" he cried hoarsely "So-long," muttered Sin Sin Wa. He waited until the boat was swallowed in the deeper shadows, then reclosed the water-gate and ascended to the room where Sir Lucien awaited.
I repeated my question: "Are you justified in this extravagance?" He replied: "Look here, Guv., excuse me saying so, but you're a bit out of date. It does not pay nowadays, fiddling about over small things. I don't mean anything personal, Guv'nor. My boss says if I take his tip, and stick to big things, I can make big money!" I said I thought the very idea of speculation most horrifying.
"As I say, I'm wanted for poaching, and Chatfield's been watching to get his knife into me this long while. All the same, if more serious things drew his attention off, he might let it slide. What do you ask for, guv'nor?" "I wanted to know where you could be found in case you were required to give evidence about seeing Mr. Oliver," replied Copplestone. "That evidence may be wanted."
"Ever think of him as wearing a dress suit, Mr. Griffith?" Griffith looked blank. "Tommy? in a dress suit!" "There's one in his box. When we landed in England I took him down to Ruthby. Kept him there a month. You'd have been jolly well pleased to see the way he and the guv'nor hit it off." "Governor?" "Yes, my pater father, y' know." "So he's a governor?
Well, he says his principal has instructed him to call in my bills, and it is impossible for him to renew them; and that the usual steps will be taken if I am not able to meet them." Jasper laughed, with gentle sarcasm. "Of course, that's always the moneylender's excuse. I'm afraid he will sell you up, Beau." Captain Beaumont whistled. "My dear Vermont, it will be an awful shock for the guv'nor.
"Thirty pounds," ses the man. "Must be a good locket. Where'd you get that?" he ses, turning to the barmaid. "Gentleman came in an hour ago," ses the gal, "and, arter he had 'ad two or three drinks with the guv'nor, he asks 'im to stick it up. 'Arf crying he was said 'it 'ad belonged to his old woman wot died."
"Couldn't tell you that, guv'nor, d'yer see," said the lad, "'cause he's one o' them gents what allus wears a white silk handkercher abaht his face up to his eyes. But he's a big man wears black clothes." Viner gave the boy his promised reward, and was passing on when Miss Wickham touched his arm. "Ask if he's seen a lady go out this way," she said. "That's equally important."
"I take your word as between gentlemen! Well, now, it's this here you see me as I am, here in a cave, like one o' them old eremites that used to be in the ancient days. Why am I here! 'Cause just now it ain't quite convenient for me to show my face in Scarhaven. I'm wanted for poaching, guv'nor that's the fact! This here is a safe retreat.
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