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"Let 'im cough it up," the skipper was saying. "It'll do 'im good. I've seen 'im blind many a time, but 'ow any man could dope 'isself in that shape in less'n two minutes! Well, it fair gives me the go-by!" Two minutes! Hozier listened, and he was recovering his wits far more rapidly than Iris. Was the skipper, then, in league with nature herself to perplex him? And Watts, too?
'Scroggins, 'e sez, ''ave all o' them there buoys wot I wus talkin' abart in the sick bay by eleven o'clock punctual. Scroggins seems a bit startled. 'In the sick bay, sir? 'e arsks. 'Yus, sez Number One, grinnin' to 'isself and winkin' at the chief buffer. 'In the sick bay by six bells sharp. 'Werry good, sir, sez Scroggins, tumblin' to wot wus up, 'cos 'e saw the doctor standin' there.
"Why, y' see, Peter, we do know as a man 'ung 'isself theer, 'cause Gaffer found un likewise I've heerd it scream but as for believin' in it, since you say contrarywise why, 'ow should I know?" "But why should I deny it, George; why should I tell you all of a Scotsman?" "Why, y' see, Peter," said George, in his heavy way, "you be such a strange sort o' chap!"
'Why, I used to go out walking wi' 'im myself afore he took up wi' Polly. 'I thought you did, I says; 'well, there's 'is skull. See that little 'ole in it, clean as if it had been cut wi' a punch? He never shot hisself, not 'e! Why, bless yer heart, doesn't it stand to sense that if 'e'd done it 'isself, he'd a'most ha' blowed 'is 'ead off, leastways made a 'ole a lot bigger nor that?
He ain't making any excuses for 'isself not a bit of it. He says he's a scoundrel." David sat down limply, stunned by the news of Tom Braddock's depravity. "But if he is sober and in his right senses, he must feel the most poignant remorse after that one terrible act," cried the young man. "He surely must know that she did not fall into the trap that she actually fled to escape it.
Then I says to pris'ner, "You bito an' give an account of yerself," says I. Says 'e quite 'aughty like, "I'll account fer myself to the burra sahib," an' wouldn't take no chaff. But 'e bitoes, an' curls 'isself up in the sand, an' goes sound asleep in no time an' 'ere 'e is, sir. 'Principal. 'Sit down on the ground. 'Also, corrected Sunni, 'he gave me some coffee. He is a good man.
Then, when ye be old, like me, an' full o' years 'tis a fine thing to 'ave a son o' your own like Simon an' a granddarter like my Prue 'tis worth 'aving lived for, Peter, ay, well worth it. It's a man's dooty to marry, Peter, 'is dooty to 'isself an' the world. Don't the Bible say summat about it not bein' good for a man to live alone? Every man as is a man should marry the sooner the better."
"Peter," said the Ancient, straightening his bent old back proudly, "oh, Peter! tell 'em I'm a man o' truth, an' no liar tell 'em, Peter." "They know that," said I; "they know it without my telling them, Ancient." "But," said Job, staring at me aghast, "do 'ee mean to say as you live in a place as is 'aunted by the devil 'isself?"
I said to one of 'em, the other evening a man as calls 'isself a brass finisher, though, Lord knows, the only brass 'e ever finishes is what 'is poor wife earns and isn't quick enough to 'ide away from 'im well, whatever 'appens, I says, it will be clever of 'em if they take away much work from you. It made them all laugh, that did," added Mrs. Wilkins, with a touch of pardonable pride.
"'Appened to fall an' 'urt 'isself?" repeated the Postilion, winking knowingly, "'urt 'isself, says you 'Walker! says I, 'Walker!" with which he laid his forefinger against the side of his nose and winked again. "What might you be pleased to mean?"
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