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Updated: May 25, 2025
But say, you should have seen what I tumbled into one night up in Belgium. We'd plugged twenty-six kilometers through the mud and rain that day and was billeted swell in the town hall. The mess call had just sounded and I was gettin' in line when the Loot yanks me out to tote his bag off to some lodgin's he'd been assigned five or six blocks away.
By this time it was growing dark, and most of the gin-palaces were beginning to send forth that glare of intense and warm light with which they so knowingly attract the human moths that constitute their prey. "Here we are," said Sloper, stopping in front of a public-house in a narrow street. "This is one o' the respectable lodgin's. Most o' the others are disreputable.
They didn't think he might have a mother to keep, or, if he was in lodgin's, he couldn't live there for nothin'.... Sometimes we seems to be gettin' on a little, and then you has bad luck, and there you are again where you was before. It's like gettin' part way up a hill and fallin' down to the bottom again, and you got it all to begin over again."
Though I reckin that'll hardly be necessary when the news of your good luck gits noised round I misdoubt whether there's any firm in our entire city that wouldn't be glad to have you on their books fur a stiddy customer. "And, also, ef I was you I'd arrange to git me regular board and lodgin's somewheres round town.
If she is one kind of a person, we can offer to pay for lodgin's and horse-feed; but if she is another kind, we must steer clear of mentionin' pay, for it will make her angry. You had better leave the explainin' business to me." I was about to reply that I was more than willing to do so when the door opened and a person entered evidently the mistress of the house.
These Edwards missed, but he could not help appreciating Captain Elisha's conversation. Caroline said little during dinner. Her brother glowered at his plate and was silent. But the captain talked and talked. "Maybe you think I didn't have a time findin' your new lodgin's," he said. "I come over on the cars, somethin' I don't usually do when there's anything afloat to carry me.
Presently, Mavis told the woman how she had got temporary employment, and added: "But it's work I'm quite unaccustomed to." To her surprise, Mrs Bilkins bridled up. "Just like me. I ain't used to letting lodgin's; far from it." "Indeed!" remarked Mavis. "Oh, well, if you don't believe me, ask Mrs Bonus." When Mavis came downstairs, she found Mrs Bilkins busy trimming a hat.
"I ain't much of a hand at spinnin' a yarn," remarked Sailor Ben, apologetically, "'specially when the yarn is all about a man as has made a fool of hisself, an' 'specially when that man's name is Benjamin Watson." "Bravo!" cried Captain Nutter, rapping on the table encouragingly. "Thankee, sir, thankee. I go back to the time when Kitty an' me was livin' in lodgin's by the dock in New York.
'This comes of mixin' up with soldiers, he thought, 'and a lowclass o' man like that. I ought to ha' changed my lodgin's. He'll be askin' me where that young girl is, I shouldn't wonder, an' him lost his character and his job, and everything, and all because o' women! He watched the broad-faced woman, Mrs.
"I told Tom Wilkins I'd let him have some more money to-morrow, or his sick mother'll have to turn out of their lodgin's." "How much money were you going to give him?" "I gave him three dollars to-day, and was goin' to give him two dollars to-morrow." "I've got the money, Dick. I didn't go to the bank this morning." "All right. I'll take it, and pay you back next week."
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