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"Want a light?" said Sam; but Pete made no answer, merely pulling a box of matches out of his pocket and putting it back. "Come along now," said Tom, hesitating though as he spoke. "Wait a minute. Like sixpence, joskin?" "Ah!" replied Pete, showing a set of dirty teeth in a grin.
He ordered refreshments with the air of a man who was performing a melancholy duty to himself, in the name of humanity. "When I think of my speech," he said, at supper, "my heart bleeds for the people. In a few hours more, they will assemble in their thousands, eager to hear me. And what will they see? Joskin in my place! Joskin with a manuscript in his hand!
Sam uttered a low laugh full of contempt, as he noticed the lad's eager gaze, and after sending a curl of smoke floating upon the air, he jerked the wax-match from him for a few yards, to fall beneath some old dead furze. "Have one, joskin?" he said. Pete Warboys seemed to forget the presence of Tom, and slouched forward, holding out his hand as he uttered a low hoarse "Ah!"
His speech will be read at the meeting by Secretary Joskin, of the Club. Have these lines printed and posted everywhere. He threw down the pen, and embraced Mrs. Bowmore in the most summary manner. The poor woman was ordered to send the roll of paper to the Club, without a word to comfort and sustain her from her husband's lips.
Joskin, who drops his voice at the ends of his sentences! I will never forgive Charlotte. Waiter, another glass of brandy and water." After an unusually quick passage across the Channel, the travelers landed on the French coast, before the defeated spy had returned from London to Dartford by stage-coach.
Tom gave him a quick look and said nothing, but thought a good deal. Sam noticed the look, and naturally divined his cousin's thoughts. "Oh," he said, "if you want to get on in the world, it's of no use to give yourself away. I say, who is that joskin?" "Pete Warboys, half gipsy sort of fellow. I've seen him poaching. Look here, this is a wire to catch hares or rabbits with."
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