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"I fancy a direct hit from a really big H. E. would disturb our little home, but nothing else would. Of course, a shell in the door wye would be a bit awkward, you knaow," replied the Australian. The night, however, passed quietly, and except for a few slightly wounded walking cases, there was little work to do.
Something to do with him being a sheriff in the City, you know. I bet you what you laike he went in for the Common Council simply in order to get even with old Pilgrim. In fact I know he did. And now a foundation-stone-laying has dan it." "A foundation-stone-laying?" "Yes. The new City Guild's building, you knaow. Royalty Temple Bar business sheriffs knighthood. There you are!"
He turned his eyes away, in fear yes, in fear! "I say," he said. "Will Sir John Pilgrim be out of bed yet, d'ye think?" He glanced at his watch. The hour was about eleven. "He'll be at breakfast." "I'm going to see him, then. What's his address?" "25 Queen Anne's Gate. But do you knaow him? I do. Shall I cam with you?" "No," said Edward Henry, shortly.
Again came the salute, with a barely perceptible diminution of snap, as befitted a less formal occasion. "Sergeant major," said Barry, "I would give a great deal to be able to do that." "Wot's that, sir?" enquired the sergeant major. "That salute of yours." "Quite easy wen you knaow 'ow!" permitting himself a slight smile.
I'll dew it if I find the man sound in wind and limb, and all satisfactory, when I come to look him over." "Of course that's what I mean," said Judith. "Now come in and take supper with us, captain," she continued, her voice still in a quiver with recent emotions. "Well, I don't keer if I dew, jest fer to bind the bargain, you knaow. I told the boy I'd be back, but I reckon they won't wait long.
The ticket-agent stared stubbornly into the infinite, making no sign till a coin rang on the window-ledge; when he started, eyed the offering with fugitive mistrust, and gloomily possessed himself of it. "I'll look after them," he said. "Be ye thinkin' of walkin'?" "Yes," said Amber over his shoulder. He was already moving toward the door. "Knaow yeour wa-ay?" "I've been here before, thank you."
Tom Poppins did not fail to bellow "Bring on the dish-water," nor Miss Mary Proudfoot to cheep demurely "Don't y' knaow" in a tone which would have been recognized as fascinatingly English anywhere on the American stage.
"Thet's the Quain place, daown by th' ba-ay," interpolated the youth from unplumbed depths of mournful abstraction. "It is. I wired yesterday " "Yeour name's Amber, aint it?" "Yes, I " "Well, Quain didn't get yeour message till this mornin'. I sent a kid daown with it 'baout ten o'clock." "But why the but I wired yesterday afternoon!" "I knaow ye did," assented the youth wearily.
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