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Updated: May 28, 2025
'Well, then, look 'ere, 'spose we go to the little shop opposyte nice little plyce it looks. I could do a cup o' tea myself, and we can 'ev a quite confab. It's a long time since we'ed a talk together. I come over from Twybridge this mornin'; slep' there last night, and saw yer mother an' Oliver.
'With a establishment like that opposyte, there'd ought to be a medium-sized Spiers & Pond at this 'ere street corner for any man as knows 'is wye about. That's my idea, Godwin see? Peak had as yet given but half an ear to his relative's discourse; he had answered mechanically, and only now was constrained to serious attention by a note of meaning in the last interrogative.
The dictionary gives stroke for blow, and I'm sure that's it." "Rot! they don't mean to say that at all! It ain't a blow to the noble mind, it's just the opposite; that's what they mean." "How can it be the opposyte?" shrilled Polly. "Ain't it a knock-down if you get what you don't deserve?" "I tell you they don't mean that. Can't you understand? Why, it's as plain as the nose on your face."
'You had better come to my lodgings with me, uncle, said the young man hurriedly, moving forward. 'No, no; I won't be no expense to you, Godwin, bo-oy. And I 'ave a reason for wantin' to go to the little shop opposyte. Already several collegians had passed, giving Peak a nod and scanning his companion; a moment's delay and Chilvers would be upon him.
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