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And the mate would always agree that there was "gold in them ridges and gullies yet, if a man only had the money behind him to git at it." And then perhaps the guv'nor would show him a spot where he intended to put down a shaft some day the old man was always thinking of putting down a shaft.
She drew back, and looking him full in the eyes, she exclaimed: "Then you have been in M. de Valorsay's confidence, sir? Would you be willing to swear that you never helped him in his designs?" A silent and ignored witness of this scene, Victor Chupin was secretly delighted. "Hit!" he thought "hit just in the bull's-eye. Zounds! there's a woman for you! She has beaten the guv'nor on every point."
Then came a low laugh, as if the unseen person was enjoying his perplexity. "Look overhead, guv'nor," said the voice. "Look aloft!" Copplestone glanced upward, and saw a man's head and face, framed in a screen of bushes which grew on a shelf of the limestone cliff.
At the door he stopped, and said, "Look 'ere, guv'nor, there ain't no sense in me a keepin' you 'ere. I may find Sam soon, or I mayn't, but anyhow he ain't like to be in a way to tell ye much tonight. Sam is a rare one when he starts on the booze. If you can give me a envelope with a stamp on it, and put yer address on it, I'll find out where Sam is to be found and post it ye tonight.
The guv'nor had got off, no doubt, to unhitch that heavy gate the one you had to lift. That 'orse he was a masterpiece of mischief! His difference with the animal still rankled in a mind that did not easily forgive. Half an hour later, he entered the lighted kitchen shaking and gasping, tears rolling down his furrowed cheeks into the corners of his gargoyle's mouth, and panted out: "O, my Gord!
Hawkins surveyed him again. "I'll never forget what a poor appetite his father had when he boarded here. He never came to his meals reg'lar. But he was in love, head over heels an' an extry dip, an' I don't blame him, for 'Zeke Pettingill's sister was good enough for any man, even if he did git to be guv'nor.
"Yes, my poor boy, you must be very poor, or you wouldn't bring yourself to steal." "No. I ain't poor; leastways, I have enough to eat, and I have a place to sleep." "Then why don't you earn your living by honest means?" "I can't; I must obey orders." "Whose orders?" "Why, the guv'nor's, to be sure." "Did he tell you to open that secretary?" "Yes." "Who is the guv'nor, as you call him?"
"I don't think they saw it, guv'nor," said one of the sailors as another shot flew over us. "They'll have to send below to get their glasses, those blind navy jokers." "Off," said Marah, quickly; and again we lay broadside on, tumbling in the swell, shipping heavy sprays.
Ravenslee so you are my guv'nor, and blow me tight shoving a barrer! I knowed it was you, sir; leastways I knowed your legs an' the set o' them shoulders, but with a barrer! Excuse me, sir, but the idea o' you pushing a perishing peanut barrer so gay an' 'appy-'earted well, all I can say is love-a-duck!" "Well now, cut along, Joe, and get ready.
I ain't fit to go by myself." He was right; he'd have got run over outside the door, the state he was in then. "Well," I says, "if the guv'nor don't object " "Oh! he won't, he can't," cries the young fellow, wringing his hands. "Tell him it's a matter of a life's happiness. Tell him " "I'll tell him it's a matter of half sovereign extra on to the bill," I says. "That'll more likely do the trick."
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