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Try it, sir, see if it will move a hinch." I tried the port, and found it perfectly tight. "Well, sir," continued Robert, triumphantly, "I wager my reputation as a A1 steward, that in 'arf an hour it will be open again; fastened back, too, sir, that's the horful thing fastened back!" I examined the great screw and the looped nut that ran on it.
"The less you talks to her," I sez, "the better you'll get on with her," I sez, "and the better kind o' pictur you'll make out on her," I sez to the shiny un; "an' don't you go an' arst who her father is," I sez, "for that word 'ull bring such a horful look on her face," I sez, "as is enough to skear anybody to death. I sha'n't forget the look the fust time I seed it," I sez.
"Capitally, David." "That's right, sir. I hope you and the master 'll make some'at out of it, for people do go on dreadful about it down the village." "Why, what do you mean?" "Well, sir, of course it's their higgorance. You and me knows better, and I shouldn't like master to know, but they lead me a horful life about it all.
"I don't go so far as that, sir, for he's a dog as has had a horful bad eddication, but something might be made of him; and it was a pity, seeing why he came yowling about our place, as you was so handy heaving stones at him." "What?" cried Tom indignantly. "Well, sir, p'r'aps it was me. But it weer a pity, warn't it?" "Brutal," cried Tom. "Ah, it weer. He's a horful hugly dog though."
It isn't their nature to do it, unless they've a hankering after the mar." "Lor, Brobson, how horful!" cried Eliza. And in this pleasant converse, the nurse and her subordinate wasted another five minutes.
"Well, if ever there was such a child as you, Lizer! What is the matter with you now?" "Oh, mother," cried the bear, "I dreamed of that big Bird I saw on the roof, and I ran down-stairs before I was 'arf awake, I was that horful frightened." "Well, you just go up-stairs again and here's a sweet-cake for you and you take this night-light," said Mrs.
"I heard a noise, sir I thought you'd been losing money all night to Mr Frayne, sir, and that you'd shot yourself, sir with your pistol, sir. Ain't yer, sir?" "I shot myself? Pistol? Why, Brigley, you must be tipsy!" "Which I ain't, sir; indeed, I ain't!" protested Jerry. "But are you really all right, sir? I heered a horful bang." "I'm so stupidly confused and sleepy, I hardly know," said Lacey.
'Horful indeed, miss, I believe yer, the burglar rejoined, with deep feeling. 'You don't know her temper when she's roused. An' I'm sure I 'ope you never may, neither. And I'd 'ad all my oranges off of 'em. So it came back to me what was wrote on the ongverlope, and I says to myself, "Why not, seein' as I've been done myself, and if they keeps two slaveys there must be some pickings?"
'Diggs will 'ave to ride 'im this hafternoon, and it'll bait the cap'n horful; for one of our 'orses come a fluke last hevenin'. I be sorry for Diggs! 'I'm sorry for the horse! George, go and ask the captain to send Diggs and his horse to me.
"He says, as we are going on now, we are breeding two worse pests than the fever, contentment under remediable discomfort, and a dislike to work." Among the many sounds blended into that one which roared for ever round Mr. Ford's offices in the city was the cry of the newsboys. "Horful p'ticklers of the plague in a village in shire!" they screamed under the windows. Not that Mr. Ford heard them.
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