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'A touch of gout, he says. Two days last week he didn't go to business, and his temper was that 'orrible! Nancy had a habit of facetiously quoting vulgarities; this from an acquaintance of theirs who often supplied them with mirth. 'I suppose the gout does make one bad-tempered. 'Has he been coming often? Mr. Barmby, I mean. 'Pretty well.
Indeed Bumpus seemed to have parted with much of his reason and all of his philosophy, for he could say nothing else during at least half-an-hour after awaking except the phrase "So, you're going to be hanged for a pirate." His comments on the phrase were, however, a little varied, though always brief such as "Wot a sell! Who'd ha' thought it! It's a dream, it is, an 'orrible dream!
"Float where to?" "'Ere, there, an' everywhere, Joe, I can feel 'em! They're always a-gettin' theirselves all mixed up any'ow. Oh, it's an 'orrible complaint to 'ave kidneys like mine as gets theirselves lost." "Wish they'd lose you along with 'em!" growled Joe, shaking the dust from his handkerchief.
Why, 'ow will you get along without a cat? The mice is 'orrible in this 'ere road. Come, guv'nor, I'll tell you what I'll do. You shall 'ave a bargain," said Pop. I insisted that the tortoise prize-winner should be taken away, and the next day I stopped the advertisement and resigned myself to despair. A week after Peter had disappeared I heard the voice of my friend Pop at the door.
"Don't fire, you fool!" said the man who was blowing the smoke rings. "Them blanks dirty 'orrible, and when you've clean't the clay from your clothes t'night you'll not want to muck about with your rifle. There's a price for copper, and I always sell my cartridge cases. The first time I came out I fired, but never since."
Prince got up and went into her back-place, trying her 'ardest to remember wot she'd done with that broom. She couldn't find it anywhere, and at last she came back and sat staring at Joe for so long that 'e was 'arf frightened out of his life. And by-and-by she gave a 'orrible smile and sat rubbing the side of 'er nose with 'er finger.
Wat for should a you weesh to display yourself in the window in soche 'orrible déshabille to the people in the doctor's coach? 'It was Cousin Knollys Cousin Knollys. Oh, Cousin Knollys! You're gone you're gone you're gone! 'And if it was Lady Knollys' coach, there was certainly a coachman and a footman; and whoever has the coach there was young gentlemen in it.
"When word came to Mr. Carthew's ears, the turn up was 'orrible," continued Mr. Higgs. "I remember it as if it was yesterday. The bell was rung after her la'ship was gone, which I answered it myself, supposing it were the coffee. There was Mr. Carthew on his feet.
She began to sob and talk quickly. "I wouldn't mind nothing else half so much if he'd leave that child alone. But he goes talking to her if I leave her a moment he's talking to her, teaching her words and giving her ideas!" "That's a Bit Thick," said Mr. Polly. "Thick!" cried the plump woman; "it's 'orrible! And what am I to do?
Bill made a 'orrible noise in his throat, and kept on staring at the bottle till they thought 'e'd gone crazy. Then Jasper Potts bent his 'ead down and began to read out loud wot was on the bottle. "P-o-i POISON FOR BILL JONES," he ses, in a voice as if 'e couldn't believe it. You might 'ave heard a pin drop. Everybody turned and looked at Bill Jones, as he sat there trembling all over.
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