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With his clasp-knife he had cut a wondrous big one from the bough of a willow; he had pared it; he had turned it; it blew a blast like a fog-horn. The morning was frosty, and his feet were bare, but he didn't mind the cold; he didn't feel it no, not a ha'p'orth.
Hasn't meself been looking over the bed, and under the bed, and in the bed, for the matter of that, and divil a ha'p'orth of breeches is there to the fore at all: I'm bothered entirely!" "Hark'ee! Mr.
"Not a ha'p'orth," said Mr. Tyrrwhit. "Asking your pardon, Mr. Tyrrwhit," said Mr. Hart, "but, as this is a meeting of creditors who 'ave a largish lot of money to deal with, I don't think they ought to part without expressing their opinions in the way of British commerce. I say crucifying 'd be too good for 'im." "You can't get at him to crucify him." "There's no knowing about that," said Mr.
Could he not understand that if he swaggered and posed at the judicial table, or held forth at dinner on the prerogatives of Government, that he, simply to provoke her uncle, was showing thereby that he had not a ha'p'orth of respect for the Court, or himself, or any of the people who were listening and looking at him?
"Well, t' haave yer bowels think yer throat's cut isn't sauncy!" he said. The fire was low and the kettle cold. "Here, Johnny," Withero said, "jist run over t' Farren's for a ha'p'orth ov turf an' we'll haave a cup o' tay fur these folks who're workin' overtime palaverin' about th' dead! Moses alive, wan corpse is enough fur a week or two don't kill us all entirely!"
Perhaps at bottom some coolness of temperament protected her; nobody, at any rate, suspected that it had anything to do with Isaac, or that she cared a ha'p'orth for so lugubrious and hypocritical a husband. She had showered drinks on all her friends, and had, moreover, clattered and screamed herself hoarse, when the church-clock outside slowly struck eight.
The men slept in their clothes, but rolled up their coats for pillows. There was a stove where they might cook their food if they had money to buy any. A ha'p'orth of tea and sugar mixed, a ha'p'orth of bread, and a ha'p'orth of butter made a royal feast. Going through the square in which his church stood he passed a smart gig at the door of a public-house that occupied the corner of a street.
"Anything human and natural," said Drake. "I don't care a ha'p'orth about the morality of these things not I but I am dead sick of their stupidity." Lord Robert made languid puffs of his cigarette, and said, in a tearful drawl: "My dear Drake, of course it is exactly as you say. Who doesn't know it is so? It has always been so and always will be.
Her heart sank and sank. 'Can't we begin again? she said, in a low voice, while the tears rose in her eyes. 'I'm sorry for what I did. 'How does that help it? he said, irritably. 'I'm a ruined man. I can't paint any more or, at any rate, the world doesn't care a ha'p'orth what I paint. I should be a bankrupt but for Madame de Pastourelles
It was nearly dark, and growing very cold. The lads croodled down by the crackling blaze, and tried to forget that they had forgotten tea-time. "We never has to mind a bit of hungry," said Philip stoutly. "Never a ha'p'orth," said Pete. "Only when the job's done we have hams and flitches and things for supper." "Aw, yes, ateing and drinking to the full." "Rum, Pete, we always drinks rum."
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