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Something or other! and so we run on. 'What I want to know, said Barnes, the butcher, 'is where he got his tenners from? Kilne shook a sagacious head: 'No knowing! 'I suppose we shall get something out of the fire? Barnes suggested. 'That depends! answered the emphatic Kilne.
'Here's to him, poor fellow! said Kilne; and was deliberately echoed twice. 'Now, it wasn't that, Kilne pursued, pointing to the bottle in the midst of a smacking of lips, 'that wasn't what got him into difficulties. It was expensive luckshries. It was being above his condition. Horses! What's a tradesman got to do with horses? Unless he's retired! Then he's a gentleman, and can do as he likes.
In single file these mourners entered the publican's house, where Kilne, after summoning them from behind the bar, on the important question, what it should be? and receiving, first, perfect acquiescence in his views as to what it should be, and then feeble suggestions of the drink best befitting that early hour and the speaker's particular constitution, poured out a toothful to each, and one to himself.
Kilne, my good fellow!" and I, wishing to be equal with him, says, "A fine night, my lord!" and he draws himself up he smelt of good company says he, "Kilne! I'm not a lord, as you know, and you have no excuse for mistaking me for one, sir!" So I pretended I had mistaken him, and then he tucked his arm under mine, and said, "You're no worse than your betters, Kilne.
'Perhaps it did, for a time, said Kilne. 'What's in the grain, you know. He couldn't change. He would be a gentleman, and nothing 'd stop him. 'And I shouldn't wonder but what that young chap out in Portugal 'll want to be one, too; though he didn't bid fair to be so fine a man as his father. 'More of a scholar, remarked Kilne.
'Now, there 's a man! Kilne stuck his hands in his pockets and began his meditation: which, however, was cut short by the approach of his neighbour Barnes, the butcher, to whom he confided what he had heard, and who ejaculated professionally, 'Obstinate as a pig! As they stood together they beheld Sally, a figure of telegraph, at one of the windows, implying that all was just over.
Kilne, the publican opposite, had seen Sally, one of the domestic servants, come out of the house in the early morning and rush up the street to the doctor's, tossing her hands; and she, not disinclined to dilute her grief, had, on her return, related that her master was then at his last gasp, and had refused, in so many words, to swallow the doctor.
A very intelligent 'I ought to know, with a reserve of regret at the extension of his intimacy with the particular vintage under that roof, was winked by Kilne. Lawyer Perkins touched the arm of a mourner about to be experimental on Kilne's port 'I think we had better wait till young Mr. Harrington takes the table, don't you see? 'Yes,-ah! croaked Goren.
'But, you know, if the widow carries on the business, said Grossby, 'there's no reason why we shouldn't get it all, eh? 'There ain't two that can make clothes for nothing, and make a profit out of it, said Kilne. 'That young chap in Portugal, added Barnes, 'he won't take to tailoring when he comes home. D' ye think he will?
'That I call his worst fault shilly-shallying about that young chap. I mean his. Kilne stretched a finger toward the dead man's house. 'First, the young chap's to be sent into the Navy; then it's the Army; then he's to be a judge, and sit on criminals; then he goes out to his sister in Portugal; and now there's nothing but a tailor open to him, as I see, if we're to get our money.
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