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I've jest called round at your lodgin's, and they towld me as you was at the Collige. He who thus accosted the student, with the most offensive purity of Cockney accent, was a man of five-and-forty, dressed in a new suit of ready-made tweeds, the folding crease strongly marked down the front of the trousers and the coat sleeves rather too long.
'He's married, isn't he? 'Married? Why, what made you think that. Clara? No, not he. He had to move not long ago; his lodgin's is in Red Lion Street now. 'And does he ever come here? 'He has been just now an' then. 'Have you told him? 'Why yes, dear I felt I had to. 'There's no harm. You couldn't keep it a secret. But he mustn't come whilst I'm here; you understand that, father?
Oh, John, there's the sweetest little lady you ever set eyes on, all in black, with a dear baby, a dear little speechless infant, and a invalid 'usband, I should say by the look of 'im, 'as come to ask the price of the ground floor lodgin's.
'An' are ye no' awn onything for the lodgin's? queried Teen, who had a singular conscientiousness regarding debt, even of a microscopic kind. 'No; I paid up when I had it. I dinna owe her onything. Teen was silent as she put her long hat-pin through the heavy masses of her hair and pulled her fringe a little lower on her brow; but she thought a great deal.
Little boys and girls fighting like savages for a bare existence. The chums were silent the rest of the way to the old brick house just a "slice" out of a three-story-and-basement row of such houses, which Inez announced to be "Mother Beasley's." "Sometimes she's got her beds all full and you hafter wait for lodgin's. Mebbe she'll let you camp in her room, or in one of the halls up-stairs."
"Shober as a dudge," answered Ned. Gorman looked earnestly in his face for a few moments, and then began to talk to him in a continuous strain by way of testing him. "C'found these cabs an' b-busseses; a feller c-can't hear a word," said Ned. "Your lodgin's an't far off, are they?" "Close 't 'and," answered Ned. "Let's go to 'em," said Gorman.
W'en she come 'ere she told me she was on the stage. A hopera singer, she said she was. She 'ad money then, enough to pay 'er way, she 'ad. She was expectin' to go with some troupe or other, but she never 'as. Oh, them stage people! Don't I know 'em? Ain't I 'ad experience of 'em? A woman as 'as let lodgin's as long as me?
"Don't be hard on him, Bobby," said Hetty, drying her eyes; "he spoke very kind, you know, an' p'raps he means to help us afterwards." "Spoke kind," retorted the indignant boy; "I tell 'ee wot, Hetty, you're far too soft an' forgivin'. I s'pose that's wot they teaches you in Sunday-school at George Yard eh? Vill speakin' kind feed us, vill it clothe us, vill it pay for our lodgin's!"
An' I'm sure it's not lettin' lodgin's to sich I ever thought I should come to though, for the matter o' that, I never could rightly understand what made one thing respectable an' another not." "What is their employment then?" asked Hester. "Something or other in the circus-way, as far as I can make out from what they tell me.
"By jing, they surely ought; well, but can you spell mum?" "M-u-m." "Ha, ha, ha, take care of yourself, an' don't forget seven." "Never fear." "Frank," said Art, "I'm goin' up to Syl Harte's lodgin's to pass my opinion on the patthern of a waistcoat for him." "Very well," said Frank, "of coorse." "I'll not stop long." "As long or short as you like, Art, my boy."
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