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You see, sir, Rowles has been lock-keeper these seventeen years with eighteen shillings a-week and a house, and his hours from six in the morning to ten at night; so he always gets his money regular and his sleep regular, and he can't see why other men can't do the same." "We cannot be all of one trade," remarked Mr. Burnet.
"Oh! that's your young brother's, I expect; he said he had got a bat coming." "All I can say is, he must be more flush of cash than I am, to go in for a thing like this. Send him here, Paul." So Paul vanished, and presently Stephen put in an appearance, blushing, and anxious-looking. "Is this yours?" asked the elder brother. "Yes; did Mr Cripps send it?" "Mr Cripps the lock-keeper?" "No, his son.
'He'll be out of the boat in a minute if he rolls like that, said the Rat, sitting down again. 'Of course he will, chuckled the Otter. 'Did I ever tell you that good story about Toad and the lock-keeper? It happened this way. Toad.... An errant May-fly swerved unsteadily athwart the current in the intoxicated fashion affected by young bloods of May-flies seeing life.
There seemed to young John a fitness in the attachment. She, the Child of the Marshalsea; he, the lock-keeper. Every Sunday young John presented cigars to the Father of the Marshalsea who was glad to get them and one particular Sunday afternoon he mustered up courage to urge his suit. Little Dorrit was out, walking on the Iron Bridge, when young John found her.
He would be a good boy and not run away again. His pretty face and speech persuaded the bargemen to bring him back to the Shannon; it was decided to say nothing about him to the lock-keeper, and he was carried down to the cabin.
'I may inform you, captain, that I am Eugène Valmont, chief detective of the French Government, and that all the police of France at this moment are under my control. I ask you, therefore, to be careful of your answers. You were ordered by a policeman at Denouval to return. Why did you not do so? 'The lock-keeper ordered me to return, but as he had no right to order me, I went on.
The lock-keeper rushed out with a drag, under the impression that somebody had fallen into the lock, and appeared annoyed at finding that no one had. George had rather a curious oilskin-covered parcel in his hand. It was round and flat at one end, with a long straight handle sticking out of it. "What's that?" said Harris "a frying-pan?"
And he's spotted, and I know with what, and with whose. Hooroar! Bradley slept long. Early in the afternoon a barge came down. Other barges had passed through, both ways, before it; but the Lock-keeper hailed only this particular barge, for news, as if he had made a time calculation with some nicety.
The mist of a July morning shrouded the river and its banks. It was a soft thin mist, not at all like a winter fog, and through it, and high above it, the sun was shining, and the larks singing; and Edward Rowles, the lock-keeper, knew well that within an hour or two the brightest sunshine would gladden England's river Thames.
For Rowles had caught the name of the servant who was so persevering on the river. "All right," returned Roberts; "give Mr. Burnet the ticket, please." Rowles stooped down and gave the old gentleman the ticket for the lock, and then the two boats passed out into the open stream. The lock-keeper went indoors to ask if dinner was ready. "Quite ready," was Mrs. Rowles's cheerful reply.
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