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Updated: June 4, 2025
I never was took so suddin in all me life." "I wonder you didn't have your dinner in the Carlton Hotel, Sarah." "So I would 'a' done if I'd hev bed time ter chinge me dress. You orter know, Dook, as no lidy ever goes inter them plices in wot she's bin a wearin' afore she cleaned herself. I'ad ter go ter Marlborough 'Ouse ter tell the Prince of Wales, and that's wot kept me."
Johnny hurled this last at the head of an overgrown errand-boy whose intention had been to offer sympathy. "Well, I never!" commented a passing flower-girl. "Calls 'erself a lidy, I suppose." "Nowadays," observed the stud and button merchant at the corner of Exeter Street, "they make 'em out of anything." Drawn by a notion that was forming in his mind, Johnny turned his steps up Bedford Street.
"The lidy said," he declared, "that the white-headed gentleman would give me 'arf a crown for this 'ere!" Wrayson gave him the money, and stepped back into the room. He gave the paper to the Colonel, who read it calmly, first to himself and then aloud. "I leave you to your conshens. He may have been bad, but he was good to me! The Colonel's eyes grew very soft.
"Me!" her expectant eyes on him. "'E wouldn't want to 'ear it. I shouldn't want to 'ear it myself. Bein' on the 'alls when yer a pretty girl ain't an 'elpful life; an' bein' took up an' dropped down till yer dropped in the gutter an' don't know 'ow to get out it's wot yer mustn't let yer mind go back to." "That's wot the lidy said," called out Glad. "Tell 'im about the lidy.
"No, I haven't anything for you today. You are the man I gave some pie to a fortnight ago?" "Yis, lidy, thank you; I come back because I thought p'r'aps you'd like to know I'm able to get about again." A Possible Substitute "What have you in the shape of cucumbers this morning?" asked the customer of the new grocery clerk. "Nothing but bananas, ma'am," was the reply. One on the Preachers
"I thought Polly 'd 'ave a fit when she 'eard 'er screamin' an' swearin'. My! it was langwich! But it was the 'orspitle did it." "Did what?" "Dunno," with an uncertain, even slightly awed laugh. "Dunno wot it did neither does nobody else, but somethin' 'appened. It was along of a lidy as come in one day an' talked to 'er when she was lyin' there. My eye," chuckling, "it was queer talk!
It was Harry who came at my call; and as he took over the wheel he remarked, just loud enough for me to hear, and staring away to windward as he spoke: "I've made up my mind, sir; I'm with you and the lidy.
Orkins, they knows damn 'em! as your feelins ull make you orfer more and more, for who knows that there dorg might belong to a lidy, and then her feelins has to be took into consideration. I'll tell 'ee now, Mr. Orkins, how this class of wagabond works, for wagabonds I must allow they be.
Oh, we're fine rich, ain't we, both of us, you with your fifteen shillings from the yard and me with nine and six from the fronts. Gawd's truth, Rothschild ain't nothink to you and me, Alb, when we've the mind to play the great lidy and gentleman.
Them two swines, O'Gorman and Price, have been s'yin' that after that business with the French barque, and the shootin' of Karl and Fritz, it won't never do to let you and the young lidy ever get ashore again." So Miss Onslow's foreboding had come true, then! We knew too much, and were no doubt to be sacrificed in cold blood to ensure the safety of this piratical gang.
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