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Why, Bob Hopley's a chap as must do something to show for his wage, and he'd take any man's character away. He hate me, he do." "Yes, and you hate him, Magg," I said. The fellow turned on me sharply, but a curiously ugly smile began to make curves like parentheses at the corners of his lips, and he showed his teeth directly after. "Well, I ain't so very fond of him," he said.
"I don't, Magg; I paid you everything I owed you," cried Mercer. "Oh no, sir; don't you go for to say that which you know aren't true. It's four shillin', and I wouldn't have asked you, only I'm that hungry as never was." "But I don't owe you anything; do I, Frank?" "No; he paid you," I said. "Oh, sir! Master Burr junior knows as it's wicked to tell a lie.
I'll make a kite a hundred feet high, get five miles of rope ready against the next hurricane; and then I'll rub it with phosphorus and fly it. But what can I fasten it to? No tree would hold it. Dunce. To the island itself, of course. And now go to Stantle, Magg, Milton, and Copestake for one thousand yards of silk Money! Money! Money!
Just came up to see if the gardener's about, and he'd give me a job." "You know he wouldn't," I said. "The Doctor will not have you about the place again." "And it's very hard," he whined. "Everybody's agen me, and takes 'vantage of me, even young gents as owes me money and won't pay." "Why, who owes you money, Magg?" "You do, sir; four shillin', which I wouldn't ask you for, but "
Every now and then the voices of the boys in the play-field floated toward us, and we sat in momentary expectation of being seen by one of the bigger fellows, and ordered off into the field by our tyrants; but the moments still glided by, and at last Mercer thrust his book into his desk. "Now, then," he said in a low voice, "we must make a run for it, or old Magg will think we are not coming."
You do have to try so much to get to know anything at all. Now, let's see what shall we do for an hour?" "Go for a walk," I suggested. "Oh, that's no good, without you're going to do something. I know; we'll go back and make Magg lend us his ferret, and then we'll try for a rabbit." "Very well," I said eagerly. "No, that wouldn't do, because his ferret's such a beggar." "Is he?" I said.
"He is going to Europe with me this afternoon and he is also going West, a long way west, to shoot anything he can find on four legs." Mr. Magg nodded. "He has to be duplicated then!" he remarked. "Precisely," Guest assented. "I understand," Mr. Magg said. "Which Mr. Courage am I to provide?" "The one who stays," Guest answered. "It can be done, of course," Mr. Magg said. "Pardon me one instant."
Why, it'll be too dark to see to do anything in less than an hour. Oh, won't I pay him out for " "There he is," I whispered, for I had just caught sight of a figure lying down by a patch of furze; and we started off at a dog-trot, and soon reached the spot. "Why, I thought you hadn't come, Magg," cried Mercer excitedly. "That's what I was thinking," said the man.
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