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"You don't tell me, Sarah, that you mean to go gadding out at this time of the evening?" cries he, a bit chapfallen, for he knew she carried the keys in an under-pocket beneath her skirt. "And you don't suppose," answers she, "that I can spare the time to watch you play-actin' in my best chair? No, no, my little man! Sit there and amuse yourself: what you do don't make a ha'porth of odds.
"Not a ha'porth of odds," said Jerry, coming out of his hiding-place. "Who cares what he knows? A man may do what he pleases on his own run, I suppose." "He mayn't light a fire as 'll spread," said the old man. "Bother! Who's to prove what's in a man's mind? If I'd been Nokes, I'd have staid and seen it out.
"And it's a pretty rotten game for him, paying out for us all the time, and not a ha'porth of thanks, or anything! How'd you like it?" "I never thought you were a turn-coat," Faith said shortly. She cried herself to sleep. Everyone was against her. The twins had forgotten her, and now Peg was condemning her ... life was a hateful thing.
And Kitty, though little, was as handsome as any, and walked Ardevora streets with her eight daughters, all tall as grenadiers and terrible as an army with banners. There wasn't a ha'porth of reason for it, that anyone could discover; and Kitty didn't mind it one farthing.
Gibbs's friends paid nightly visits to note the change in his appearance, and grumble at its slowness. "We'll try and pull it off to-morrow night," said Mr. Kidd, at the end of that period. "I'm fair sick o' lending you money." Mr. Gibbs shook his head and spoke sagely about not spoiling the ship for a ha'porth o' tar; but Mr. Kidd was obdurate.
"Every one of them, father and stepmother and sisters and all. My own mother too! There ain't a ha'porth against it. I don't want any one to give me sixpence in money. And she should live just like a lady. I can keep a servant for her to cook and do every mortal thing. But it ain't nothing of all that, Mr. Morton." "What is it then?"
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'porth for so lugubrious and hypocritical a husband. She had showered drinks on all her friends, and had, moreover, chattered and screamed herself hoarse, when the church-clock outside slowly struck eight.
We've a-trapped him safe, miss, and you've got nothink to do but just you lift up your hand, and we'll put him back, not a ha'porth the wuss, on the very spot as we took him from." She drew a great breath of relief, but suffered not a muscle of her countenance to betray her feelings. "It is better so," she observed quietly.
'When I first went to business, ma'am, I took a penny loaf and a ha'porth of milk for my breakfast as I walked to the city every morning; what do you say to that, ma'am? Breakfast! Bah! 'Now, Nickleby, said Squeers, coming up at the moment buttoning his greatcoat; 'I think you'd better get up behind. I'm afraid of one of them boys falling off and then there's twenty pound a year gone.
'Well then, says I, thinkin' it over, 'why not do the handsome while we're about it? You an' me ain't the sort of men, I says, 'to spoil the ship for a ha'porth o' tar. 'Certainly we ain't, says Bill. 'An' we've done a lot for Eli, says I. 'We have, says Bill. 'Well then, says I, 'let's put a coat o' paint on the whole business an' have him embalmed. Bill was enchanted."
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