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They expected him to take all the responsibility and give them a clean slate! The nerve of it! To hell with them! Suddenly he began to cry, shockingly, with deep stertorous suspirations. "No you won't!" he hiccuped. "You shan't lay the blame on me! I'll tell the truth, I will! I won't stand for it!
Ere Essper had finished more than one stout bolt had been drawn, and the great key had already entered the stouter lock. "Most honourable sirs!" hiccuped the porter, "in our Lady's name enter.
'Come in, officer, and have a drink, said Paul, and the officer, after an upward and downward look along the street, marched into the house. Paul gave him a drink instantly, and whilst the landlord hiccuped ''Started by threats 'he explained the situation. 'Of course, I made him shell out, said Paul. 'Wouldn't you?
She was a velvet-coated old lady with a flat white face and two bright birdlike brown eyes which she never took off us. Conversation was impossible, as she had only one tooth, round which her speech whistled unintelligibly, and she hiccuped loudly once in every half-hour. We were most uncomfortable.
"Well," hiccuped old Tom, "so I will but speak plain English as I do." "That I'll be hanged if he does," said Tom to me. "In half an hour more I shall understand old Nosey's Latin just as well as his plain English, as he calls it."
"Think!" exclaimed the other, "what am I paid a salary for? What are my brains doin' night an day eh? Of course I can think; thash's my pr'feshion, is thinking." "R'member him, of course," hiccuped Ned. "Well, then, he could get us a corpse, you know couldn't he?" Ned looked uncommonly knowing at this point, and admitted that he rather thought he could a dozen of them, if necessary.
He started to jerk his hands apart, hesitated again with an oddly apprehensive look at the big man, then whirled off the cape. Gusterson sucked in such a big gasp that he hiccuped. The right shoulder of Fay's jacket and shirt had been cut away. Thrusting up through the neatly hemmed hole was a silvery gray hump with a one-eyed turret atop it and two multi-jointed metal arms ending in little claws.
"Dud-don't remember," denied Racey. "Think," urged Luke Tweezy. "Am thu-thinkin'," Racey said, crossly. "What you wanna know for?" "I don't like to have folks talkin' so loose and free about me," was the Tweezy explanation. "Duh-hic-quite right," hiccuped Racey Dawson. "An' you are, too, y'old catawampus. You a friend o' mim-mine, Lul-luke?"
"Drink, gentlemen," said he; "drink by all means so long as it amuses you. I had far rather you exceeded than that I should appear inhospitable." "Magnifshent old man," Mr. Fett hiccuped to me confidentially, "an' magnifshent liquor. As the song shays I beg your pardon, the shong says able 'make a cat speak an' man dumb "Like 'n old courtier of the queen's An' the queen's old courtier "
'Does anybody know the chap's name? asked Sir Harry, reeling back into the room. 'Know his name! exclaimed Bob Spangles; 'why, don't you? 'No, replied Sir Harry, with a vacant stare. 'Why, you went up and shook hands with him, as if you were as thick as thieves, replied Bob. 'Did I? hiccuped Sir Harry. 'Well, I thought I knew him.
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