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Updated: May 8, 2025
They went to a place of amusement every night, and the on'y unpleasantness that happened was when Peter's uncle knocked a chemist's shop up at a quarter-past twelve one night to buy a penn'orth o' peppermint lozenges. They 'ad four of the 'appiest evenings together that Sam 'ad ever known; and Mr. Goodman would 'ave been just as 'appy too if it hadn't ha' been for the thoughts o' that five pounds.
"It's what the curick ses," she enlarged radiantly. "Though 'e don t believe it, pore young man; 'e on'y thinks 'e does. 'It's for 'igh an' low, 'e ses, 'for you an' me as well as for them as is royal fambleys. The Almighty 'E's EVERYWHERE! 'Yes, ses I, 'I've felt 'Im 'ere as near as y' are yerself, sir, I 'ave an' I've spoke to 'Im." "What did the curate say?" Dart asked, amazed.
"I can better that yet," remarked Jack unprintably. "I'll swap you coats. Yours ain't a bad one, but your arms goes a foot too fur through the sleeves, an' she 's ridiculous short in the tail. I would n't 'a' speculated in her, on'y she was the last the hawker had left. She's never bin bent."
Banks!" "Yes, sir. I was only just in time. She on'y sez, 'Tell Mr. Harrington that I am so glad that everythink will be all right now. An' then she smiled, sir, and sez as I was to kiss Master Harry and Miss Mabel for her, as she was agoin'. And then she sez, 'Isn't God good to send the rain, Mrs. Banks? Everything will be all right now for poor Mr.
"Is it here that the man lives who came up just now?" asked the missionary. "What man?" she replied, fiercely, "I know nothink about men, an' 'ave nothink to do with 'em. Ned Frog's the on'y man as ever comes 'ere, an' he lives up there." She made a motion, as if pointing upwards somewhere, and banged the door in her visitor's face. "Up there!"
Happen we set too much store by him, or happen it wur on'y th' Teacher again teachin' us his way, but hows'ever that wur, I came home one sunny mornin' fro' th' factory, an' my dear lass met me at th' door, all white an' cold, but tryin' hard to be brave an' help me to bear what she had to tell. "'Tim, said she, 'th' Lord ha' sent us a trouble; but we can bear it together, conna we, dear lad?
And then, with a sudden change of manner, "Say, look here, mister; hev yew finally made up your mind ter remain on this island among a lot ev outrageous, unclothed, ondelikit females, whar every prospeck pleases an' on'y man is vile; or air yew game ter come in pardners with me in the schooner an' run her in the sugar trade between 'Frisco and Honolulu?"
'The Union Infirmary, says he; 'it's the on'y place she's fit for except the Incurables in Dublin, says he, 'an' I'm afraid there's no chance for there. 'Oh, docther, don't mention it! says poor Mrs. Byrne she was telling me about it aftherwards. 'Is it the Union? I wouldn't name it, she says, 'to a decent respectable woman like Mrs. Brady.
'I wanth t' get t' the Thouthern outporth, where there'th life. They ithn't no life here. An' I'm tho wonderful tired o' all thith! Tumm, says she, 'no man ever afore athked me t' marry un, an' I 'low I better take thith one. He'th on'y a fool, says she, 'but not even a fool ever come courtin' me, an' I 'low nobody but a fool would. On'y a fool, Tumm! says she.
"Try as I kin, I can't live much longer. 'Tis on'y nat'ral I should think o' Dora an' th' child'en." "Yu think a sight too much on 'em, bor! 'Tis time yu give 'em up. Yu lay o' yer deathbed, Mis' Green, an' yu a mis'rable sinner; can't you put up a prayer to ask th' Lord ter have marcy on yer?" "No," said Mrs Green. "'No' an' why not?" "Cos I don' keer." "Don' keer, Mis' Green?"
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