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I didn't like it the first time thought it would choke me, you know, but that soon wears off. Now I breakfast off ham and eggs regularly. I go the whole hog, you see. Ha! ha! ha!" "If I didn't see from your card you're not living at home, that would have apprised me of it," said Esther. "Of course, I couldn't live at home. Why the guvnor couldn't bear to let me shave. Ha! ha! ha!
The office boy reappeared. "Guvnor says why aren't you at your work, Miss Thurnbrein," he remarked, as he climbed on to his stool. "You won't get through before closing time, as it is." She turned reluctantly away. There was something in her face from which even Aaron could scarcely remove his eyes. "I must go," she declared.
"Don't you bother lovin' hanythink but just the guvnor, and and Mr. Vanderlyn." She looked down at blushing Anna who, upon her knees, was astonished almost into full paralysis. And then she shrilly laughed. "Hi knows!" said she. "Hi knows." "M'riarrr," said Anna slowly, rising, "you are crrazy." "Not so cryzy as a 'ackman 'ammerin' 'is 'ead hagainst a 'ouse." said M'riar. "There's cryzier.
"Scared of me, eh?" the other repeated, staring hard at Sir Timothy. "Did you 'ear that, guvnor?" "I heard it," Sir Timothy acquiesced. Billy the Tanner began to cheer up. He walked all round this stranger. "A toff! A big toff! I'll 'ave a drink with you, guvnor," he declared, with a note of incipient truculence in his tone.
The one in his left he flung at the glass which was over the door of the casual ward. It crashed through it, and through the lamp beyond. 'That's 'ow I'm goin' to get a bed. The door was hastily opened. The grizzled pauper reappeared. He shouted, as he peered at us in the darkness, 'Who done that? 'I done it, guvnor, and, if you like, you can see me do the other. It might do your eyesight good.
The first notion was that FitzGerald should be owner of three-fourths of the concern; but on a valuation being made it was found that the nets and gear contributed by Posh were of greater value than had been supposed, and before the Meum and Tuum put to sea it was understood that Posh should be half owner with his "guvnor."
'No 'urry, said the young man, grinning suggestive. 'Oh, don't break your neck to get there, said the young woman. ''Slike when you're dead you're long time married. The young man turned aside as if this hit him. 'The longer the better, let us hope, said Birkin. 'That's it, guvnor, said the young man admiringly. 'Enjoy it while it larsts niver whip a dead donkey.
A man in a flannel shirt and pair of shabby plaid trousers, which owed their precarious position to a pair of worn-out braces, turned a beery eye upon the newcomer. "I'll 'ave one with you, guvnor," he said. "You shall indeed," Sir Timothy assented. "Strike me lucky but I've touched first time!" the man exclaimed. "I'll 'ave a double tot of whisky," he added, addressing the barman.
"To tell you the truth, guvnor," he confessed, "I was mixing up my apples and bananas a bit. You see, those at the top were all the best, and it has been my custom to add a few from underneath there most of them a little going off. It was the only way," he added with a sigh, "that one could make a profit.
The grand days in which he could look for the hand of the fair Emmeline were all gone by; but still the property had been too good not to leave something for which he might grasp. Properly worked, by himself alone, as he said to himself, it might still yield him some comfortable returns, especially as he should be able to throw over that "confounded old guvnor of his."
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