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And I'd hardly got there when a fellow who's getting up the ship's concert to-morrow night nobbled me to do something for it. I said I could only do conjuring tricks and juggling and so on, and he said all right, do conjuring tricks and juggling, then. He wanted to know if I knew anyone else who would help. I came up to ask you," he said to Sam, "if you would do something." "No," said Sam.
Shandy sometimes harked back to his early English Whitechapel, for he had come from the old country, and had brought with him all the depravity he could acquire in the first five years of his existence there. "Ned's got the soft snap in that blasted bunch," as his eye discovered Carter on Lucretia. "He's slipped me this go, but I've nobbled the boss, so I don't care. I'm next 'em this trip."
I was nobbled one day, without a moment's warning, on a twopenny-halfpenny charge of burglary never you mind whether it was true, or whether it was false that ain't worth going into. I was took under a false name, and I stuck to that false name, thinking it more convenient.
'What about you? 'We've nobbled our little lot, Dave answered with justifiable pride. 'My word, but I'm glad to see you. I thought you'd gone right over into the sea. 'I wasn't far off it, said Ken. 'I say, is there any way up to the top again. This is nothing but a ledge? 'Can't you climb the bluff. It's not so steep a little way to your right?
'Yes, or leave it alone which you liked. Then he shut his eyes, and his mouth too, and was soon as fast asleep as if he never intended to wake under a week. 'What shall we do, Jim? I said; 'go or not? 'If you leave it to me, says Jim, 'I say, don't go. It's only some other cross cattle or horse racket. We're bound to be nobbled some day. Why not cut it now, and stick to the square thing?
'Suppose you'd nobbled those notes, what should you do with 'em? Perhaps Mr. Steinberg resented the form of this inquiry. But be that as it may, he responded with some tartness, 'Suppose you'd nobbled them? At this chance thrust young Barter turned curiously red and white, and had some ado to recover that open smile of his. 'Hang it, he said, 'you can't suppose I meant it that way.
And I'd hardly got there when a fellow who's getting up the ship's concert to-morrow night nobbled me to do a couple of songs. He wanted to know if I knew anyone else who would help. I came up to ask you," he said to Sam, "if you would do something." "No," said Sam. "I won't."
She made no answer, and he went on hastily, "Old Foster's still in bed, and the waiter says he's written five notes to your husband already a regular row of them in the bar, you know." "Last instructions?" "Oh, somebody else to be nobbled, don't you know; some fellow who wants to marry his deceased wife's sister or else is afraid he'll have to if they pass the Bill.
Serious it is. A great deal of capital must have been put into this business. 'A sprat to catch a whale, said Merton. 'You mean about nobbling the electric machine? How could that be done? 'That and other things. I don't know how the machine was nobbled, but it could not be done cheap. Would you mind telling me your dreams again? Merton repeated the story. Logan was silent.
"Look here," said he, catching Jack by the arm and drawing him away from his adversary, "we aren't used to that here, I can tell you! Go to your desk! Do you hear? There's the governor coming up! A nice row you'll get us into with your temper! Come, you Wallop, up you get, I say you beast! I'm jolly glad the young 'un walked into you. Serves you right! Look alive, or you'll be nobbled!"
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