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When the important man in immaculate black came out a little later, Nickie saluted him gravely, as between gentlemen, but without deference. "'Ow's it, Billy?" he said. "You might drop in an' see me this evenin'. I'm livin' under th' blackberry hedge back o' your stables." The stout man passed in silence, and with a great show of dignity. Nickie had a busy afternoon.
Then, however, some other homeward-goer overtook the little family. For the talk grew suddenly louder, the woman beginning cheerily: "Hullo, Mr. Weatherall! 'Ow's your poor wife?... I didn't see as 'twas you, 'till this here little Rosy said...." What Rosy had said I failed to catch.
"'Ow you could ever 'ave thought you 'ad a chance, Bob, I don't know, ses Henery Walker. "'Ow's the toad, Bob? ses Bill Chambers; and then they all laughed. "'Laugh away, mates, ses Bob; 'I know you don't mean it. The on'y thing I'm sorry for is you can't all 'ave the gold watch, and I'm sure you've worked 'ard enough for it; keeping Henery Walker's kittens for 'im, and hanging round Mr.
However, before anyone seated there could give vent to his resentment at this boisterous intrusion of the men from the rival camp, the smooth, oily and inviting voice of the unprincipled Sidney Duck, scenting easy prey because of their inebriated condition, called out in its cockney accent: "'Ello, boys 'ow's things at The Ridge?"
Love mykes 'em that w'y." "Quite crrazy," Anna answered; but she was blushing furiously. "Blushin' red as beefstykes," M'riar commented as she took the brush and started to do Anna's painfully accomplished task all over, from the big crack by the door where she had started. "'Ow's 'e hever goin' to know w'ere we 'ave moved to?" she asked her mistress, now. "Father left a word." "Ho, did 'e?"
This sudden arrow from the quiver of the Great Bowman, so unexpected expected, pierced the hearts of all. Into them, toppling, bowled Knapp like a cannon-ball. "Ow, dear! Ow's that? Ow, my pore face!" The chirpy Cockney voice popped out from the thick of them like a cork from a bottle, and a smack from a sledge-hammer fist punctuated each ow.
I heard some of the swine, I reckons." Silently the two men stood in the trench, and suddenly from close at hand there came the noise of a man climbing a dug-out shaft. It was exactly as a faint cry of "'Ow's yer father?" came from a long way off that a curtain just beside them moved, and a man, crouching slightly, came out of a screened dug-out shaft into the trench.
'Tain't worth what the cargo would have been, of course, at least not money down. But I'll tell you what it appears to figure up to. Appears to me as if it amounted to about the bottom dollar of the man in 'Frisco." "'Old on," said Huish. "Give a fellow time; 'ow's this, umpire?"
'Ow's that for the bloomin' spellin' bee?" But Coke's humor made no appeal. The staring, brilliant eyes fixed on him did not relax their vigilance, nor did any trace of emotion exhibit itself in that calm voice. "You are unlucky, Captain Coke, most unlucky," it said. "I regret my natural mistake, which, it seems, was shared by the authorities of Fernando do Noronha.
'Ow's it agoin' to be altered. 'Yes! cried Harlow triumphantly. 'That's the bloody question! 'Ow's it goin' to be altered? It can't be done! There was a general murmur of satisfaction. Nearly everyone seemed very pleased to think that the existing state of things could not possibly be altered.
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