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"Why, accordin' to their present way of thinking they intends to ast you to make the Brazilian coast, somewheres about twenty mile or so from some big port; and they're goin' to tell you as when we've made the land the brig is to be scuttled, and all hands you and the lidy included is to take to the boats and land, givin' ourselves out to be a shipwrecked crew.
Regular honey-pot to every passing petticoat you might 'ave been." He broke off, springing erect and shading his eyes with one hand to obtain a better view. "My Sammy whoever's the skipper a bringing 'ome 'ere with him? Dooks and duchesses and all the blamed airistorkracy? English too, or I'm a blooming nigger. Tea for a lidy? I should rather think it.
"Seemed like it frightened 'im a bit. 'We mustn't be too bold, Miss Montaubyn, my dear, 'e ses, for 'e's a kind young man as ever lived, an' often ses 'my dear' to them 'e's comfortin'. But yer see the lidy 'ad gave me a Bible o' me own an' I'd set 'ere an' read it, an' read it an' learned verses to say to meself when I was in bed an' I'd got ter feel like it was someone talkin' to me an' makin' me understand.
We've all heard that before, and I, for one, don't believe in it; it's all very well among a lot o' sailor-men like ourselves, but you'll never be the equal of the lidy no, nor of the gent neither not if you was to live to be as old as Mathusalem; so what good would it do you to talk to her? Why, she wouldn't look at an old tarry-breeches like you or me, much less talk to us! Garn!
He fumbled in his shirt, and the mare snorted as the eight-inch blade flashed out of its handle under her nose. "See? That's the lidy! Now watch! There's a knot-'ole up the palings there." The crowd fixed a stare on the green, solid barrier, and the knife soared a full twenty yards, but missed the knot-hole and rattled down.
But there, if I can set set till I 'ear Stepney Church goin twelve I can earn my ten shillin a week, an keep the lot of 'em. Wot does any lidy or genelman want, a comin' meddlin down 'ere? Now, that's the middle an both ends on it. Done? Well, I dessay I is done. Lor, I ses to em in the orspital it do seem rummy to me to be layin abed like that. If Tom was 'ere, why, 'e'd "
Wigglesworth turned on Annette who, now that Sam's bellowing had much abated with the appearance of his father upon the scene, had somewhat regained her nerve. "You?" gasped Mr. Wigglesworth. "You? My Samuel? It's a lie," he cried. "Hey, mon, guairrd y're tongue a bit," said Mack. "Mind ye're speakin' to a leddy." "A lidy! A lidy!" Mr. Wigglesworth's voice was eloquent of scorn.
But I don't hold with murder; and I said as I thought we might be able to plan out a way of makin' ourselves safe without doin' no hurt to you and the young lidy. But they wouldn't listen to me; they're all for makin' theirselves safe, as they calls it." "And what is their scheme?" asked I.
A common-looking, vulgar young woman with a most unpleasant voice and accent. An unpleasant manner, too, to the servants half arrogant, half familiar. What a hat! and what a fringe! worthy of some young "lidy" in the Old Kent Road!
The speaker, in her turn, moved away with a youth who asked her, with much unnecessary emphasis, "what the 'ell she had to do with Albey's feet and why she couldn't leave Chris Denham alone." "If I ain't 'xactly gawn on Russian taller myself, wot's agen Albey a-doin' of it," he asked authoritatively. "Leave the lidy alone and don't arst no questions.
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