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"That's the fifteenth mess 'e's made this morning; and 'e's carried on 'orrible over the 'ole lot. If I might say so, sir, 'e don't seem quite right in his 'ead." "I am inclined to agree with you," answered the General grimly. "He must be swept up and . . ." Exactly what fate was in store for Bendigo will never be known.
I was so near hanged, just a day or two back, that I've had an 'orrible pain in my neck ever since at the bare thought of it! But who's your friend?" said Bumpus, turning to the boatswain. "Oh! I forgot him he's the boatswain of the Talisman. Dick Price, this is my friend, John Bumpus." "Glad to know you, Dick Price." "Same to you, and luck, John Bumpus."
"I know," the other girl replied. "'Orrible case, I call it!" "Well, 'e defended 'im. I sawr 'is picture in the Daily Reflexion myself. Very 'andsome man, eh? They do say!..." Lady Cecily came into her box, followed by her husband, and Henry looked steadily up at her in the hope that she would see him, but she did not glance in his direction.
He seemed more suspicious o' Bill than me, and 'e kep' worrying us nearly every day to know what we were going to do. We beat about in the channel with a strong 'ead-wind for four days, and then a tug picked us up and towed us to London. The excitement of that last little bit was 'orrible. Fust of all we 'ad got to get the mattress, and then in some way we 'ad got to get rid o' Jimmy.
"I know the brilliant bloke you mean," my friend conceded modestly, "though calling me 'orrible names like that would brand you as a swanker or a gentleman wot had left his manners in the hall in any barrack room from here to Hindustan.
Then they looked at the groom, and as their eyes surveyed his solemn, cadaverous countenance, which seemed a sort of bad caricature of the long visages of the horses that stood around him, they burst into a simultaneous and prolonged laugh. "He's a clever old lamp-post," said Harry at last: "we had better remain, Charley." "You see," continued Tom Whyte, "the pony's 'oofs is in an 'orrible state.
Wot d'ye want?" ses Dixon, with a growl, as Bob came in at the door. He was such a 'orrible figure, with the blood on 'is face and 'is beard sticking out all ways, that Bob, instead of doing wot he 'ad come round for, stood in the doorway staring at 'im without a word. "I'm paying off," ses Dixon. "'Ave you got any-thing to say agin it?" "No," ses Bob, drawing back.
"Pore Sam started as though he 'ad been shot, and, arter getting rid of the beer in 'is mouth, stood there 'olding the mug away from 'im and making such 'orrible faces that they was a'most frightened. "'Wot's the matter with him? I've never seen 'im carry on like that over a drop of beer before, ses Ginger, staring. "'He usually likes it, ses Peter Russet.
"See here, my girl," he said sharply, "you must not behave in this fashion. I have reason to believe that the assassin of Mr. Vrain entered the house through the premises of your mistress." "Lawks, what a 'orrible idear!" shrieked Mrs. Bensusan. "Good 'eavens, Rhoda, did you see the murdering villain?" "Me? No! I never sawr nothing, mum," replied Rhoda doggedly.
But he comed to bimebye an' didn't take on much, awnly kept so dumb as a adder. Not a word did er say till marnin' light; then a 'orrible thing fell 'pon en. You knaw that yaller dog as sails wi' us most times?
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