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A glass was a glass, and a half-pint was a half a pint. There was no extry reduction when the glass was undersized. You took the good with the bad. A voice Micky knew growled from a recess: "Give the young beggar full measure, Juliar. What he means is, you go by a blooming average."
"Can't you see for yourself? This woman don't want the boy to get fifty pound. If I was in her shoes, I shouldn't neither." Micky only heard this imperfectly. "You wouldn't do anything under a hundred, you wouldn't. Good job for me they don't double the amount.... Easy does it, Juliar only a bit of my fun!"
He was not sure, though, when he heard one of the voices, that he would not have listened, if he had any call to do so. For it was the voice of his old acquaintance the convict. "No safety like a thick fog, Juliar! I'll pay her a visit this very afternoon, so soon as ever you've given me some belly-timber. Sapps Court'll be as black as an inch-thick of ink for twelve hours yet.
"She's got her lines to show" So the lady had been saying, shortly before Michael came into the bar. "But she won't have them long, if you put your mind on making her give 'em up. You can do it, Wix." She seemed to have a strong faith in the convict's cunning. He appeared to ponder over it, saying finally: "Right you are, Juliar! I see my way." "What are you going to do?" "That's tellings.
Wix said, "Rum!" and Miss Hawkins, who had been keeping her ears open close at hand, looked in through the barcasement to say: "You go there, Wix, and back to gaol you go! I only tell you." And retired, leaving the convict knitting tighter the perplexed scowl on his face. He called after her: "Come back here, you Juliar!" "I can hear you." "What the Devil do you mean?"
Miss Julia Hawkins on the waterside, Hammersmith." "Her! Not know her! Juliarawkins. Why, she's next door!" "But do you know her to speak to?" "Rarther! We're on torkin terms, me and Juliar. Werry often stop I do, to pass the time of day with Jooliar." An intensification in the accent on the name seemed to add to his claim to familiarity with its owner. "Keeps the little tiddley-wink next door.
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