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"My sister's brother-in-law, Captain Clavering," said Lady Ongar. "Madam Gordeloup." Captain Clavering bowed again. "Ah, Sir Oo's brother," said Madam Gordeloup. "I am very glad to see Captain Clavering; and is your sister come?" "No; my sister is not come." "Lady Clavering is not in town this Spring," said the captain. "Ah, not in town! Then I do pity her.
That's the date of the policy. Now let's trot inside, an' my gal Mrs. Dickey Bulmer that is to be will give you some tea." "Tea!" snorted Coke. "Well, there's whisky an' soda on tap if you prefer it. It is rather 'ot for tea. Whew! you're boilin'? W'y don't you wear looser clo'es? Look at me cool as a cucumber. By the way, 'oo's the new man you've shipped as second?
An' when we goes over I forgets everythink an' don't know what I'm doin'. P'raps I'll get a V.C. some day wi'out knowin' what I done ter get it. And I'm not the only one like that. Anyone 'oo's bin out 'ere a few months an' says 'e ain't windy up the line's a bloody liar, there now...."
"Me 'fraid oo's a no'ty, no'ty ickle dirl! All datie!" Jane advanced. "I wish you'd let me carry Flopit for you," she said. Giving forth another gentle scream, Miss Pratt hopped prettily backward from Jane's extended hands. "Oo-oo!" she cried, chidingly. "Mustn't touch! P'eshus Flopit all soap-water-wash clean. Ickle dirly all muddy-nassy!
In the East End a double knock is always for the upstairs lodgers. "Oo's that?" asked Bob Ford, apprehensively. "I'll see," said Thomas Simmons, in reply, and he made a rush for the staircase. Bob Ford heard him open the front door. The he went to the window, and just below him he saw the crown of a bonnet.
As he went up the steps he heard them talking among themselves in that strange language of theirs, all oo's and ah's; and he thought he distinguished the voice of the respectable Ugly-Wugly saying, "Most gentlemanly lad," and the wreathed-hatted lady answering warmly: "Yes, indeed." The coloured-glass door closed behind him. Behind him was the yard, peopled by seven impossible creatures.
"Oo's goin' to stop me, Mister Nosey Parker?" sneered the boy, with a flourish of his axe. "I am," said Angel, "'cos it's my dog, see?" He coolly turned his back on the boy and bent over the terrier, who came to him cautiously, sniffing his legs. "Your dorg!" scoffed the boy, "w'y daon't yer feed 'im then? 'E's arf starved, 'e is. Yer ought to be 'ad up fer perwention of cruelty to hanimals.
X. on it, and I says to them all, I says, 'I'd like to 'ave witnesses', I says, 'to this 'ere thing. Do all you gents agree that if anyone not in the 'ouse-party and 'oo's name ain't on one of the other tickets marries 'er lidyship, I get the pool? I says.
"What's ther time?" asked Plummer, standing up and knocking out his pipe. "Must be close on ter four bells, 'oo's next wheel is it?" "It's all right, Plummer," I said, getting up from the chest on which I had been sitting. "I'll go along. It's my wheel, and it only wants a couple of minutes to four bells." Plummer sat down again, and I went out of the fo'cas'le.
I deemed the incident closed, when suddenly a florid gentleman on the opposite seat called out in stentorian tones: "Hi, conductor! you've cheated these ladies out of fourpence." "'Oo's cheated 'oo out 'o fourpence?" replied the indignant conductor from the top of the steps, "it was a twopenny fare." "Two twopences don't make eightpence," retorted the florid gentleman hotly.
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