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Updated: May 23, 2025
"I've another use for you to-night," Maitland decided, "if you are at liberty and discreet?" The final word was a question, flung over his shoulder as he turned toward the escritoire. "Yes, sir," said the man thoughtfully. "I allus can drive, sir, even when I'm drinkin' 'ardest and can't see nothink." "Yes? You've been drinking to-night?"
Walden's done the church beautiful, like a dream, as all the visitors sez, which there isn't its like in all England an' he's jest a father to the village an' friends with every man, woman, an' child in it, an' grudges nothink to 'elp in cases deservin', an' works like a nigger, he do, for the school, which if he'd 'ad a wife it might a' been better an' it might a' been worse, the Lord only knows, for no woman would a' come up 'ere an' stood that patient watchin' me an' my work, an' I tell you truly, Miss Maryllia, that when your boxes came an' I had to unpack 'em an' sort the clothes in 'em, I sent for Passon Walden jest to show 'im that I felt my 'sponsibility, an' he sez, sez he: 'You go on doin' your duty, Missis Spruce, an' your lady will be all right' an' though I begged 'im to stop, he wouldn't while I was a- shakin' out your dresses with Nancy "
Either it seemed as if Riddell thought he knew something about the affair, or else his conscience was not quite easy. "In course it was," replied he, surlily. "I knows nothink about it."
I've been a-chivied and a-chivied, fust by one on you and nixt by another on you, till I'm worritted to skins and bones. The inkwhich warn't MY fault. I done nothink. He wos wery good to me, he wos; he wos the only one I knowed to speak to, as ever come across my crossing. It ain't wery likely I should want him to be inkwhiched. I only wish I wos, myself.
Fairfax come this morning, and didn't stop above a quarter of a hour; but William was outside the droring-room door all the time, and there was no loud talking, nor quarrelling, nor nothink." "That Fairfax is a villain," replied Mrs. Brobson. "I don't forget the day he kissed baby in Arden Park. I never see any good come of a single gentleman kissing a lady's baby, voluntary.
There's none but friends here now 'cep' the old lady; she do look glum. Sus. I'll soon settle her hash! Mat. Susie! Susie! Don't there's a dear! Sus. What business has she here then! She's not a doin' of nothink. Mat. Don't you see she's looking after the poor gentleman there? Ger. William! William! Gone again! What a fellow he is! The best servant in the world, but always vanishing!
A penny is wot I pays for a share of a bed, and I s'pose as you and that ere little chap could have one all to yerselves for tuppence, and the dawg, he ud lie in for nothink. I calls tuppence uncommon cheap to be warm for so many hours." "Tuppence?" said Cecile. "Two pennies for Maurice and me and Toby. Yes, I suppose that is cheap, Jessie White.
She's as sweet and lovely a girl as ever my two heyes looked on. I never saw nothink like 'er golden 'air it's quite 'eavenly, ma'am, if I may use the hexpression." "Oh! she is a girl then? ah! I thought so," said Miss Peppy, with a sigh of resignation, as if the fact were a perplexity too deep for investigation, at least at that time.
"Weak as a rat can't eat nothink, PRACtically... nothink; but see here, John," he seldom called me John "if I do slip off the map, an' I feel PRACtically done for this time if I SHOULD you see that ration-bag" he pointed to a little white bag bulging and tied up and knotted. "Yes?"
Some of these girls knockin' about the world not havin' nothink to their name, don't baulk at things the same as you an' me would who's been used to plenty and like to pick our goods, so to speak. The way things is, Larry is as likely as most to be in a good position yet," was a sample of the modified sentiments falling from her full red lips.
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