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But it's in them papers I sees how fine leddies goes on nowadays, and if they misses so much as a two-and-sixpenny 'airpin, some of 'em out of sheer spite, will 'aul a gel up 'fore the p'lice and 'ave 'er in condemned cells in no time, so that ye see, Passon, if so be Miss Maryllia counts over the sparkling diamants and one's lost, we'll all be brought 'fore Sir Morton Pippitt as county mag'strate afore we've 'ad time to look at our breakfasts.
"Lookit here, boys," he said earnestly, "that ther big mag'strate him as you call Gully is that his real name? Wher does he come from? What countryman is he?" "English!" answered Yorke shortly. "Why? D'ye think an Englishman has to run around with a blooming alias?" "Well, now, yu' needn't go t' git huffy with a man!" expostulated Moran, with an injured air.
"Now, see here; look, me man!" he said slowly and distinctly, a sort of tense eagerness underlying his soft tones, "behfure I shtart in charrgin' ye wid anythin' I'm goin' tu put a few questions tu ye in front av this ginthleman" he indicated the justice "He's a mag'strate, so ye'd best tell th' trute.
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