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"So am I." She sighed. "Wall then yo must end it." "How can I end it?" "Yo knaw how." "Oh Jim darling haven't I told you?" "Yo've toald mae noothin' that makes a hap'orth o' difference to mae. Yo've coom to mae. Thot's all I keer for." He put his hand on her shoulder and turned her toward the house-place. "Let me shaw yo t' house now you've coom." His voice pleaded and persuaded.
"Begorra, your honour," said the witness, "devil a hap'orth was Micky doing at all, at all; he was just walking round searching for a vacancy." A similar story is told of about a dozen tinkers who had set upon one man and were unmercifully beating him.
Lysimachus!" added he, "let a libation be poured out on so smiling an occasion, and a burnt-offering rise to propitiate the celestial powers. Run to the 'Sun, you dog. Three pennyworth of ale, and a hap'orth o' tobacco." Ere the month was out, I am sorry to say, the Triplets were reduced to a state of beggary. Mrs.
Bounderby to discuss the flavour of the hap'orth of stewed eels he had purchased in the streets at eight years old; and also of the inferior water, specially used for laying the dust, with which he had washed down that repast.
I determined to test the prodigy yet further, and choosing the middle price, at fourpence a quart, I said 'Pray give me a hap'orth in a mug. This the woman at once did, and when I came to drink it, it was delicious. Sweet, cool, strong, lifting the heart, satisfying, and full of all those things wine-merchants talk of, bouquet, and body, and flavour.
Never a hap'orth of good was I at anythin' except the trifle of mathematics, but he was as great at the Classics.... I used to humbug meself somewhiles lettin' on I hankered after it because it would ha' gratified him maybe to hear of the event. But little I ever done to plase him, God forgive me.
Thady was a small, anxious-looking child, whose pale and peaky face his mother often likened regretfully to a hap'orth of soap after a week's washing. He had spent a surprisingly considerable part of his six years in metaphysical speculations, and was always disposed to make a personal grievance of the difficulties in which they constantly landed him.
"It wouldn't be a bad notion," observed Mr Meldrum, who just then came up to where the two were talking, "to take another trip out to the ship in the jolly-boat and see whether we could not land some more things that might be of use to us?" "Sure the hould's gutted now enthirely," said the Irish mate sadly, "and the divil a hap'orth we'd get by going.
As for the ancients, I was always mixing them up together; and whether it was Alexander or Caesar who marched over the Alps and burnt Jerusalem, divil a bit do I know, and I don't see that if I did know it would do me a hap'orth of good."
"`Well, sir, she said, `sometimes, when very hard-up, I spend part of it this way: I buy a hap'orth o' tea, a hap'orth o' sugar, a hap'orth o' drippin', a hap'orth o' wood and a penn'orth o' bread.
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