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"Don't drive no young gents as is a-bein' sent to school back agin into their family's bosims," said Clegg sententiously. "You was took ill sudden in my cab the larst time. Offal bad you was, to be sure to hear ye, and I druv' yer back; and I never got no return fare, I didn't, and yer par he made hisself downright nasty over it, said as if it occurred agin he shouldn't employ me no more.
Hume gave him two sovereigns, and the runner could not have been more taken aback had the donor "landed him" on the sound jaw. "And now, you," said Brett to the cabman. "What did you see?" "Me!" with a snort of indignation. "Little over an hour ago I sawr a smawt keb an' a tidy little nag wot I gev thirty quid fer at Ward's in the Edgware Road a fortnight larst Toosday. And wot do I see now?
She welcomed her visitor with a friendly nod, but did not rise. "I thought it likely you'd look in, as you missed larst week. How's things goin' in your part o' the world?" "Very badly," returned Harriet, throwing off her hat and cloak, and going to warm her hands and feet at the fire. "It won't last much longer, that's the truth of it."
"Then you lose your bet, for I 'eard Colonel Byng get 'is orders larst night w'en you was sleepin' at your post, Willy. By to-morrow this time you'll see the whole outfit at it. You'll see the little billows of white rolling over the hills that's shrapnel. You'll hear the rippin', zippin', zimmin' thing in the air wot makes you sick; for you don't know who it's goin' to 'it. That's shells.
"You seem to be angry about it, my boy." "Well no, it ain't nothing to me, to be sure, though I must say as Benny's one after my own heart. The girls he do know, and mostly after 'em when the sun's gone down. Would it be the young lady at Bristol this time, or another? He wus took right bad down in Wiltshire larst time I heard of 'im, but perhaps he's cured hisself drinking of the waters.
When would they give the word for him to spring upon it and batter it lifeless to the ground? "You're awastin' henergy all the time." "God! if they don't give the word in a minute I shall be unable to hold off It," replied Dam wildly. "That's the sperrit, Cocky," approved Hawker, "but donchew fergit you gotter larst fifteen bloomin' rahnds. 'Taint no kindergarters.
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