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Surely he was not going to talk Cockney! Far from it. He stuck to his last. "See here, ma man," he roared, in a voice that made the crowd jump, "are ye for a ding on the side o' the heid?" Coaldust capitulated with alacrity. "No offence, 'Orace!" he remarked genially. "You an' me was always pals. Put it there!" He extended an ebony hand, which Robin solemnly shook and returned to his work.
When Horace arrived shortly afterwards he found her still unconscious, with Mrs Shuckleford bathing her forehead, and tending her most gently. "You had better run for a doctor, 'Orace," whispered she, as the scared boy entered the room. "What is the matter? What has happened?" gasped he. "Poor dear, she's broken down she's But go quick for the doctor, 'Orace."
Another splash. "Five." "That'll do, 'Orace," came the voice from the wheel. Then an entranced silence. The scene had the air of being ideal. And yet it was not. Something lacked. That something was the owner. The owner lay indisposed in the sacred owner's cabin. And this was a pity because a dance had been planned for that night.
Also he felt that he was assisting at the making of history. 'Orace in a bloomin' siege Gorblimey! and he, who had never killed anything bigger than an insect in his life, lusted to know how it felt to shove your bayonet into a feller or shoot 'im dead at short rynge.
"Get that lead out, 'Orace," commanded a grim voice from the wheel. A splash followed, as a man straddled himself over the starboard bow, swung a weighted line to and fro and threw it from him. "Four." Another splash. "Four." Another splash. "Four." Another splash. "Three-half." Another splash. "Three-half." Another splash. "Three." Another splash. "Two-half." Another splash. "Three."
"There's no rolling stone about 'Orace." "No," said the mother warmly. "If they was only both alike," said the visitor, approaching her subject delicately. "Ah! but it often happens two brothers may be very different in temper and mind. It's not always a misfortune." "Certainly not, Mrs Cruden; but when one's good and the other's wicked " "Oh, then, of course, it is very sad," said Mrs Cruden.
"Because I give you the tip, that's all. The old lady may not be in it, but I don't fancy the connection." "But, Sam, she's starving herself, and 'Orace is in rags." "Send her in a rump-steak and a suit of my old togs by the housemaid," said Sam; "or else do as you like, and don't blame me if you're sorry for it."
In prose and metre of all kynde ywys This lady blyssed had lust for to playe With her was blesens Richarde pophys Farrose pystyls clere lusty fresshe and gay With maters vere poetes in good array Ovyde, Omer, Vyrgyll, Lucan, Orace Alane, Bernarde, Prudentius and Stace. Throughout this passage rhetoric is never mentioned in any other context than one of pleasure to the ear of the auditor.
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