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Every now and then she made an effort, and another article of clothing was got off. When Esther returned to her room William was asleep, and Esther took him by the shoulder. "It is more serious than I thought," she shouted. "I want to tell you about it." "What about it?" he said, opening his eyes. "She has pledged the plate for thirty pounds to back that 'orse." "What 'orse?" "Ben Jonson."
And 'e wasn't more nor twenty-one years old neither, pore bloke." "But you won't beat the Medical Orficer anywhere," said Jones, one of the stretcher-bearers who was on duty in the trenches. "'E don't 'ave to fight, but you should see 'im when things is busy up 'ere. Coat off an' sleeves up, workin' for 'ours on end till any man what wasn't an 'orse would drop dead.
And, still bending down, Gyp asked: "And how is your lodger the young lady I sent you?" "Well, ma'am, she's very young, and these very young ladies they get a bit excited, you know, at such times; I should say she've never been " With obvious difficulty he checked the words, "to an 'orse before!" "Well, you must expect it. And her mother, she's a dreadful funny one, miss. She does needle me!
On seeing Mr. Waffles, the stranger touched his hat, and appeared to be about to retire, when Mr. Figg, the stud-groom, thus addressed his master: 'This be Mr. Buckram, sir, of London, sir; says he knows our brown 'orse, sir. 'Ah, indeed, observed Mr. Waffles, taking a cigar from his mouth; 'knows no good of him, I should think. What part of London do you live in, Mr. Buckram? asked he.
"Don't you go turning agin me," he said; "whether I dream or not, you and me'll stand together. I'm not goin' to do things wot's wrong low, dirty tricks so I ain't. But I knows we can get on without that. What would you like to do for your living if you could choose?" "I warn't never put to no trade," said Beale, "'cept being 'andy with a 'orse. I was a wagoner's mate when I was a boy.
The parishioners are robbed, plundered, driven from their temples, and the preaching of the Gospel is replaced in the pulpit by the declamations of epileptic tribunes. At Plaisance they have sequestered a chalice and a sum of 175 franks, the personal property of M. l'abbé Orse, first vicar. The curate, M. Blondeau, is in the prisons of the Commune. MAY 3d.
"Yes, and get a gentle one for me," cautioned Harry. "It's been eight years since I 've sit on the 'urricane deck of a 'orse!" "That goes for me too," laughed Fairchild. "And me I like automobiles better," Anita was twisting her long hair into a braid, to be once more shoved under her cap. Fairchild looked at her with a new sense of proprietorship. "You 're not going to be warm enough!"
But she opened her eyes. "Where am I? ...That's you, Esther?" "Yes. Can't you remember?" "No, I can't. I remember that the 'orse didn't win, but don't remember nothing after.... I got drunk, didn't I? It feels like it." "The 'orse didn't win, and then you took too much. It's very foolish of you to give way." "Give way! Drunk, what matter? I'm done for." "Did you lose much?"
"That old bloke took 'im," he said. "Old bloke that come in the coach. While yous was all talking in the pub, he sneaks out here and nabs that 'orse, and away like a rabbit. See that dust on the plain? That's 'im." The drover looked helplessly out over the stretch of plain. He seemed quite incapable of grappling with the problem. "Took my horse, did he? Well, I'm blowed! By Cripes!"
At fust Sam thought 'e was going to drive back to the stable, and he clinched 'is teeth and made up 'is mind to 'ave a fight for it. Then he saw that 'e was really being driven 'ome, and at last the cab pulled up in the next street to 'is lodgings, and the cabman, asking a man to give an eye to his 'orse, walked on with the letter.
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