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Helmsley started slightly. "Arbroath? I've seen that man." 'Ave ye? Well, ye 'aven't seen no beauty!" And Twitt gave vent to a chuckling laugh "'E'll be startin' 'is 'Igh Jink purcessions an' vestiments in our plain little church up yonder, an' by the Lord, 'e'll 'ave to purcess an' vestiment by 'isself, for Weircombe wont 'elp 'im. We aint none of us 'Igh Jink folks."
'The shell is apparent enough, I replied, for the mischief was in me. 'Ah yes, she replied softly, 'but it is the pearl we love. I moved over beside Billy, whose eyes were following Mrs. Mavor as she went to speak to Mr. Craig. 'Well, I said; 'you all seem to have a high opinion of her. 'An 'igh hopinion, he replied, in deep scorn. 'An 'igh hopinion, you calls it.
For the bones uv me frinds that's lyin' in this haythen land, I'll clane as fur as I can reach. An' I'll have the run uv me belt to-day, an " he added, then stopped short as the order came from McNeill that the Berkshires should receive dinner by half-battalions. "An' 'igh time," said Corporal Bagshot.
"London Bridge, 'igh tide twenty minutes arfter six, sir," he announced with a glow of satisfaction wholly pardonable in one who combines the functions of perambulating almanac, guide-book, encyclopedia, and conserver of the peace. Kirkwood said something beneath his breath a word in itself a comfortable mouthful and wholesome and emphatic.
"Yes, it is," replied the landlady; "but 'e furnished it 'imself, bein' of a luxurus turn of mind, not but what 'is taste is good, tho' far be it from me to deny I 'elped 'im to select; but 'avin' another room of the same to let, any friends as you might 'ave in search of a 'ome 'ud be well looked arter, my references bein' very 'igh, an' my cookin' tasty an' if "
"This is better, isn't it, than ''ammer, 'ammer, 'ammer on the 'ard 'igh road! I particularly want to show you the bluebells they're gorgeous! But they're quite on the other side a long way off. And then you'll be tired you'll want tea. I've arranged it." "Joseph" he turned to the groom "you know the head keeper's cottage?" "Yes, sir." "Well, go off there and wait.
"That same a'ternoon, while I was for'ard in the galley, Slushy who was in 'igh spirits tells me as 'ow Turnbull 'ave got 'old of a yarn about a lot of buried treasure on a hisland somewhere, in the Pacific, and that we was bound there to get it; and that when we'd got it, Turnbull and them as 'ad stood in with 'im 'd be as rich as princes and wouldn't need to do another stroke of work for the rest of their naturals, but just 'ave a good time, with as much booze as they cared to swaller.
"'No, my friend, says he, 'it was the late lamented Diamond's. Now it's our noble Emperor's, Gorblessim! a derelict picked up on the igh seas by one of His Majesty's frigates." The treble ceased. "Pretty position for the genelmen o the Gap Gang, ain't it?" came the black and bitter voice. "Shot takin the place, or hung if you don't."
Evan burst into a wild dance expressive of delight. He had none of his brother's scruples in respect to the money. "My eye!" he exclaimed at last, "thirty-eight bob and some coppers to do just as I likes with. I am a rich man, I am; I shall have to get some 'igh collars and come the swell.
I'll see yer blowed into the middle of next week fust! Lor' 'a' mussey! 'ow 'igh an' mighty we are gittin', to be sure! The babby'll be quiet with you, Miss Liz, will it, hindeed! An' it will cry an' fret with its hown mother, will it, hindeed!" And at every sentence she approached Liz more nearly, increasing in fury as she advanced. "Yer low hussy!
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