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"'Owever, if I fail, gentle-men, it'll be the fust and only trick I've failed in to-night. You can't expect everything to turn out right, but if I do fail this time, gentlemen, I'll try it agin if anybody else'll lend me another watch." Dicky Weed tried to speak but couldn't, and 'e sat there, with 'is face pale, staring at the pieces of 'is watch on the conjurer's table.
The "grocery lady" called over in a clear, ringing tone, "Would you be so kind, 'm, as to step inside on your way 'ome and fetch 'Enry a bit of work, 'm? 'Enry 'as the 'ooping cough, 'm, and I don't know 'owever I'm goin' to keep 'im at 'ome another day, 'm, he pines for school so!" I give a nod which means, Certainly! Mrs.
"Grease off, Jerry!" said the butt-notcher. "Yer bringin' me bad luck. 'Owever, they prob'ly got that place taped. They lost one man there an' they won't lose another, not if they knows it." I talked with many snipers at different parts of the line. It was interesting to get their points of view, to learn what their reaction was to their work. The butt-notchers were very few.
"'Owever, look 'ere 'ere! the thing I started this talk about is where's that food there was in that shed? That's what I want to know. Where you put it?" He paused. They went on talking in German. He repeated his question. They disregarded him. He asked a third time in a manner insupportably aggressive. There fell a tense silence. For some seconds the three regarded one another.
"'Owever can ye find it i' your 'eart but I'll waste no more time on you." She clambered on, and soon was flying down the slope on the farther side. How long she ran she could not tell it seemed to her a century since she had left the shore behind.
But there's a noo an' unexpected difficulty sprung up in the way this wery mornin'." "Wot's that?" demanded the Slogger, with the air of a man prepared to defy all difficulties. "They've bin an' got a dog a little dog, too; the very wust kind for kickin' up a row. 'Owever, it ain't the fust time you an' I 'ave met an conkered such a difficulty.
'Fair masterpiece, that's wot you are. They may well call you Artful. Shake 'ands. "I patted 'im on the shoulder arter we 'ad shook 'ands, and we stood there smiling at each other and paying each other compliments. "'Fancy 'em sitting 'ere and waiting for you to come back from that bite, I ses. "'I ought to 'ave 'ad more off of him, ses 'Arry. ''Owever, it can't be helped.
Oh! 'owever 'ad she dared? That dazzling sea of faces, with the eyes all fixed on her, was terrifying. A big lump grew in her throat, and the crowded benches tilted, and the flaming lights leaped to the roof as the helpless, timid tears welled into her blue eyes. And then the miracle happened.
It made me blush to the roots of my 'air; I'm not used ter bein' spoken ter like thet. I was in good circumstances when my fust 'usband was alive, 'e earned between two an' three pound a week, 'e did. As I said to 'im this mornin', "'Ow a gentleman can use sich language, I dunno." ''Usbands is cautions, 'owever good they are, said Mrs. Kemp, aphoristically.
'Cause I got a bit of a cough! disturbs fellers a bit ... last feller said as 'ow 'e couldn't get a bit o' sleep because of it damned rot I call it. 'Owever it isn't out of doors you ought to be sittin', chucky. Feelin' bad?" Peter looked at her out of his half-closed eyes. "I can't bother any more," he said to her sleepily. "They're so cruel they won't let me go to sleep.
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