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"And yet," he went on plaintively, "there's hundreds can do it even ord'nary men." He reached out a hand and gripped me by the elbow; and again his brandy-laden breath sickened me as he drew me close. "S'pose, now, you was to do this for me? You could, you know. And there's money in it lashin's o' money!"
Whereby, knowin' my habits, you'll see that I reckon this to be summat more than an ord'nary occasion: the reason bein', as you know, that pretty well the hull of Europe's in a state o' War: which, when such a thing happens, it behoves us. I'll say no more than that, as Britons, it behoves us. It was once said by a competent observer that Britons never, never if Miss Rounsell will oblige?"
"I 'member once a big bull tried t' find out the kind o' works I hed in me. 'T wa'n' no moose jest a common ord'nary three-year-ol' bull." "Hurt you?" I queried. "No; 't hurt 'im." said he, soberly. "Sp'ilt 'im, es ye might say. Could n't never bear the sight uv a man efter thet. Seem so he did n't think he wus fit t' be seen. Nobody c'u'd ever git 'n a mild o' th' poor cuss. Hed t' be shot."
'Tis the system I'm out to spoil." "Skippers are a trouble-without-end in these days," Mr Rogers muttered on, staring gloomily at the fire in the grate; "specially to a man crippled like me. . . . You spend years sarchin' for a fool, an' you no sooner get the treasure, as you think one you can trust for a plain ord'nary fool in all weathers than he turns out a dam fool!"
There was five coaches, mostly packed with children, an' on one o' the coaches was a board 'Exeter to Penzance. The four front coaches had corridors, the tail one just ord'nary compartments. "Well, she dragged past us to dead-slow, an' came to a standstill with her tail coach about thirty yards beyond where I stood, and, as you might say, with its footboard right overhangin' the pool.
'Tis no beggar's petition that I'll be profferin', however, but a bargun. Give me a salad, a pint av hock, an' fill me pipe wid the Only Mixture, an' I'll repay ye across the board wid a narrative the sort av God-forsaken, ord'nary thrifle that you youngsters turn into copy may ye find forgiveness! 'Tis no use to me whatever.
"The North was consid'rably stirred up over rumors of how the Confederates hed raised the Merrimac and made out of her a terrible ironclad vessel, warranted to resist all ord'nary attacks. Then these rumors were followed by news of the destruction of two sailin' frigates, the Cumberland and the Congress.
That ain't none o' yo' ord'nary new-born bundles, to be dumped on a box that'll maybe be opened sudden d'rec'ly for somethin' needed, an' be dropped ag'in' the wall-paper behind it. It's hers, whether she knows it or not. Don't, for gracious sakes, lay 'im on the table! Anybody knows that's bad luck. You think it might bother her on the bed? She's that bad?
"Yes," said he, in reply to some remark I had made; "there's a wonderful difference in the shape of 'eads and the size. Now your 'ead is what you may call an ord'nary 'ead. I mean to say," he added, no doubt seeing a shadow of disappointment pass across my ordinary face, "I mean to say, it ain't what you would call extry-ord'nary. But there's some 'eads well, look at that 'at there.
But, bless you, sir, Robins pulled through all right; that sort generally does." "Was there any one to help Todd, when he went for the fellow?" "No, sir; he just waded in and took his chance. I wouldn't at least not for an ord'nary drunk. Mr. Todd just ran home as he was: said the sprint would warm him to rights. How is he?" "Got a vile cold; he was barking pretty well all chapel."
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