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When he had gone, I crumpled up my muddy letter, and I confess that I purposely listened to his conversation, for his dug-out was only separated from mine by a few horizontal logs piled up on each other. "Well, you see, it ain't no good to grouse," he was saying to someone. "I've got mud up me nose an' in me eyes, and all down me neck, but it won't go away 'owever much I grumbles.
"That's it, sir, I AM a stupid, blundering Englishman right enough. Blooming fool, sir, if you please. I didn't hintend to mention anythink but the ham. The confounded firewood slipped in, sir. 'Owever, I trust you'll overlook it, sir." "I'm not overlooking firewood in this weather, Diggs," said Mr. Bingle drily. "Won't you sit down? Excuse me for not " "Oh, no, sir, thank you.
"Who is the hofficer with the red beard?" he asked, while thus engaged. The interpreter seemed unwilling to answer at first, but, on a repetition of the question replied "Pasha." "Pasha, eh? Ah, that accounts for the respect of the cap'n rather shorter in the legs these 'ere than I could 'ave wished; 'owever, beggars, they say, mustn't be well, they're wide enough anyhow. A Pasha, is 'e?
"Assumin' that the wood 'as been thoroughly searched, where did she get out of it?" "Searched!" growled old Jenks. "There ain't a inch as I 'aven't searched an' seen, not a inch." "The kidnappin' the'ry," went on the superintendent, ignoring him and turning to Mother, "I don't incline to. 'Owever, we must go to work in order, an' I'll 'ave my men up 'ere and make sure of the wood.
I slammed the wicket in 'is face and turned the key and then I took off my clothes and went down that ladder agin. It seemed colder than ever, and the mud when I got fairly into it was worse than I thought it could ha' been. It stuck to me like glue, and every step I took seemed colder than the one before. 'Owever, when I make up my mind to do a thing, I do it.
But 'owever, ma'am, seein' 'e slept so sound, I made bold to creep in a little nearer, for 'e was a picter!" shaking her head solemnly "an' I was just thinkin' what a proud woman 'is mother would be if she was me to see 'im at that moment an' 'im so beautiful, when, ma'am" but here her voice broke, and it was some seconds before she could add "you might 'a' 'eard me scream at the cathedral.
We walked downhill beside him, holding on to the superstructure to prevent her capsizing. These technical details, 'owever, are beyond me. He waved his pipe towards Leggatt. 'I saw there was two deepish ruts leadin' down 'ill somewhere, said Leggatt. 'That was when the soldiers stopped laughin', and begun to run uphill. 'Stroll, lovey, stroll! Pyecroft corrected.
The officer answered and the Prince responded with a sweeping gesture towards the sky. Then he spoke it seemed eloquently. Bert watched him and guessed his meaning. "Much more likely to break your neck," he said. "'Owever. 'Ere goes." He began to pry about the saddle and engine of the drachenflieger in search for tools. Also he wanted some black oily stuff for his hands and face.
"Like as not you're so brave you wouldn't mind goin' across the Fens," he said. "Them there flames wouldn't be scarin' such a 'ero as Mr. James Collins. Oh no! You'll find it a mile or so less than the three miles by road. It's the shortest cut, but I don't recommend it. 'Owever, that lies with you. I'll tell Sir Nigel where you're gone if 'e asks me, you may be sure!" "Orl right!
"'Owever," observed Jemima, "it don't matter now, as Mr William and 'is bride are safe 'ome again, and if Mr O'Ale also was fond of a joke, like other people, there is no 'arm in that. Poor fellow, I 'ope 'e's well, an' Mr Bunco too, though he is a Red Hindian."
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