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'So long as you lives there, he says, 'along of yourself alone, you can't have her come back." "Did you say the children wanted looking after badly? Did you make it clear? Did you say Mrs. Tryst wished it, before she " "I said that." "What did he say then?" "'Sorry for you, m'lad, but them's m'lady's orders, an' I can't go contrary.
Which being the case, there's no use wasting any more time or thought on the matter. So after this self-communication, I usually says to the young feller under observation by the death watch, 'Cheerio, m'lad. Is there anything in particular as you'd like to discuss. "I was a bit thick with the Abyssinian prince, Grover Redding, you recall.
"I say, don't wear out the door-mat." "Eh? No, m'lad, I won't wear out the mat. You see we don't have no mats afloat. I say! my!" The man bent down, as if seized with a cramping internal pain, and gave his right leg a slap with his horny paw, whose back was as hairy as that of a monkey. "What's the matter?" said Mark. "Matter! I was only larfin. My! you are like the skipper! Wheer is he?"
"You won't find 'er a bad 'un to work for, m'lad. I speak of folks as I find them. I'm not one to take any notice of queer tales!" "Queer tales. What be the queer tales, Mister Piper?" Timmy knew this last speaker. He was the baker's rather sharp younger son, and Mrs. Crofton had just engaged him as handy man.
We ride in cars; only a hundred years ago men drove horses. We have guns; go back a little and you'll find them waving swords and shooting guys with bows and arrows those that don't wear tin plate on them to stop being punctured " "Only they were, after all," commented Ashe. "Look at Agincourt, m'lad, and remember what arrows did to the French knights in armor." Ross disregarded the interruption.
"Yes, I've got the worst on it," said Billy; "but I'll sarve him out a warmint. My neck a-bleeding, Mr Small?" "No, m'lad, only a bit red. He's give it a bit of a pinch; that's all." "Yes, and I'll give him a bit of a pinch when I ketches him. I calls him a warmint that's what I calls him."
And in time you may become a first-chop operator, which I'm not and never will be; but if you do, 'twill be through fighting shy of two things. The first of them's Woman, and the second is Man. To make a friend of a man you must lower your guard. Ordinarily 'tis fatal. As for Woman, remember this, m'lad: to let love into your life you must open a door no mortal hand can close.
Wynne is a man of his word, drunk or sober. He'll come back, no doubt. Unless something has happened to him." "And this from our sceptical disbeliever, boys!" struck in Tony West, raising his hands in mock horror. "Nigel, m'lad, you've made an early conversion. The good doctor has a sneaking belief in the story. How now, son? What's your plan of action?"
Now cards, to be properly played, requires above all a gift of the ability to concentrate. Recognizing this I have always refused to play for money with the doomed as I have been watch over, saying to them when they pressed the matter, 'No, m'lad. Let's make it just a sociable game for the fun there's in it rather than play for money. "There are others not so scrupulous," hinted Deputy Cochran.
"Got what, m'lad?" said Small. "The coky-nuts," said Billy, smiling. "'Tis his natur' to." "Don't talk conundydrums, m'lad," said the boatswain. "If so be as you've got the coky-nuts, let's have 'em, for I'd like a go at one 'mazingly." "Why, I aren't got the nuts, gentlemen," said Billy; "but, as I said afore, it is his natur' to." "Whose, Billy?" said Mark. "Why, the monkey's, sir. Here, Jack."
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