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Yes; it's a hact of piracy, right enough, I haven't a doubt; and, as you says what's the best thing to be done?" He paused and gazed earnestly toward the increasing appearance of thickness and greasiness in the western quarter, carefully studying its aspect for a full minute or more; then he turned to me again. "I don't like the look of it at all, Mr Delamere," he said.
"Brimberly," said he, "it is now very nearly two o'clock." "Very late, sir oh, very late, sir indeed, I was in the very hact of goin' to bed, sir I'd even unbuttoned my waistcoat, sir, when you rang two o'clock, sir dear me, a most un-'oly hour, sir " "Consequently, Brimberly, I am thinking of taking a little outing " "Certingly, sir oh, certingly!" "And I want some other clothes "
He worked himself up into a state of complete frenzy, and flourished a huge stick in a way which shocked the policeman's orderly and legal notions. "That may do very well down in your country, sir; but you arn't a goin' to use that there weapon here, you know, not by no hact o' Parliament as I knows on." "Ow, it's joost a way I ha' wi' me."
"Captain, your address, if you please; I shall summon you for scurrilous language, as the hact directs. Ah, you do right to be driven to a pawn shop." Triumphantly he drove off, while the Major cried, "Never tie up my rattan again. Oh, it was Mrs. Hockin, was it? What a fool I was not to stop on my own manor!"
"Werry well; then you must keep moving all night continually, whereby you avoids the hact; or else you goes to a twopenny-rope shop and gets a lie down. And your bundle you'd best leave at my house. Twopenny-rope society a'n't particular. I'm going off my beat; you walk home with me and leave your traps. Everybody knows me Costello, V 21, that's my number."
"And I should consider, also, sir," said the licensed victualler, with increased importance, "having been a guardian myself, and knowing the hact, as the parish couldn't refuse, because they're in power to recover all hexpenses out of his mother." "To be sure; it's all the unnatural old witch's fault." "No, it is not," said I, faintly. "Wait till your opinion's asked, young'un.
Brimberly opened the door and bowed himself into the room; his attitude was deferential as always, his smile as respectful, but, beholding Spike, his round eyes grew rounder and his whiskers slightly bristly. "Ah, Brimberly," nodded his master, "you are not in bed yet good!" "No, sir," answered Mr. Brimberly, "I'm not in bed yet, sir, but when you rang I was in the very hact, sir "
"Four parcels on the roof, Captain," he said, looking as only a cabman can look at his money, and spinning his extra shilling. "Twopence each under new hact, you know. Scarcely thought a hofficer would 'a tried evasion." "You consummate scoundrel and you dress yourself like a countryman! I'll have your badge indorsed I'll have your license marked. Erema, pay the thief; it is more than I can do."
"'How are you, Rory? Suppose we take a bit of a walk. "Well, he held up his ead stiff and straight, and didn't speak for a minute or two; at last he said: "'How do you do, Sargeant Jackson? "'Why, Rory, sais I, 'what hails you to hact that way? What's the matter with you now, to treat an old comrade in that manner? "He stared ard at me in the face hagain, without giving any explanation.
"I gev Frederick two and six for fetchin the cabb been resolved to hact the gentleman in hall things. How he stared!" "25th. I am now director of forty-seven hadvantageous lines, and have past hall day in the Citty. Although I've hate or nine new soots of close, and Mr. Cullin fits me heligant, yet I fansy they hall reckonise me.
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