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Updated: June 15, 2025
"'And, says Mawson, describing some lurid work of fiction, 'Evangeline was left shut up in the picture-gallery of the 'ouse. "'D'ye mean to tell me hooses hev picture-galleries? says Bella. "'Course they 'ave all big 'ouses. "'Juist like the Campbell Institution sic a bother it must be to dust! "'Well, Mawson goes on, 'Evangeline finds 'er h'eyes attracted "Again Bella interrupts.
"Yes, Esther, I know; but the truth is, I'm a bit down in the mouth. I've had a very bad week. The favourites has been winning, and I overlaid my book against Wheatear; I'd heard that she was as safe as 'ouses. I'll meet some pals down at the 'Cri'; it will cheer me up." Seeing how disappointed she was, he hesitated, and asked what there was for dinner.
"Then it was he remembered the words of Scripture and saved himself alive. 'The Lord is my 'Elper, 'e says, 'therefore I will fear nothing, and straightaway there came a cock-crowing and the street was empty from end to end. And after that the Lord was good to 'im and guided 'im 'ome." Teddy stared and caught at another question. "But who was the people," he asked, "who lived in all these 'ouses?
'E's in disgrace, is Sanda Pasha, just now, an' superseded. The day you was took bad, sir, Russians came into the willage, an' w'en I come back I found 'em swarmin' in the 'ouses an' loop-'oling the walls for defence, but Sanda Pasha came down on 'em with a harmy of Turks an' drove 'em out.
Then they furnishes the 'ouses, arter which they insures 'em. In the course of a short time they removes most of the furniture in a quiet way, and then set the 'ouses alight, themselves escapin', p'r'aps, in nothin' but their night clothes.
"Well, that of itself is enough to endooce some blackguards to raise a fire, and likewise to get the shillin' for bringin' the first noose to the station; which, by the way, was the chief okipation of that willain Phil Sparks, I'm pretty sure. But here's 'ow it is. The swindlers I speak of, go an' take 'ouses the further from fire-stations the better.
'I suppose you think the landlords ought to let people live in their 'ouses for nothing? said Crass, breaking the silence that followed. 'Certainly, remarked Harlow, pretending to be suddenly converted to Owen's views, 'I reckon the landlord ought to pay the rent to the tenant! 'Of course, Landlordism is not the only cause, said Owen, ignoring these remarks.
"Ah! a meetin'-'ouse'?" said the Slogger, with a slight smile of contempt. "Music-'alls and publics is meetin'-'ouses, ain't they?" "Ah, but they ain't prayer-meetin' 'ouses," rejoined the Slogger. "Not so sure o' that Villum. There's a deal o' prayer in such places sometimes, an' it's well for the wisitors that their prayers ain't always answered.
"Her 'usband bought the lease o' two little 'ouses in Church Street, and they braat 'er in six shillin's a week for years, an' she allus said she'd leave it to Bessie if she wor took afore the lease wor up. But the lease ull be up end o' next year, I know, for I saw the old lady myself last Michaelmas twelve-month, an' she told me all about it, though I worn't to tell nobody meself.
"Begging your pardon for interrupting, sir, but the chief sent me around for a word with you. There's been a gang o' sneak thieves operating 'round 'ere, sir, and some of 'em 'as been getting admittance to 'ouses by passin' themselves off as gas inspectors, sir." Mrs. Kent screamed. "I 'ad a notion that one o' these birds is along Bancroft Road to-night, sir, an' I wanted to warn you.
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