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"I makes due allowances for the young, for I says to myself, 'Jane Power, you was once, so to speak, like an unfledged chick yourself; but there's youth and youth, Dr. Maybright; and Miss Polly's of the kind as makes your 'air stand on hend." "Poor Polly," said the Doctor. "No, sir, begging your parding, if you was in the kitchen, it's 'poor Mrs. Power' you'd be a-saying.
He wore a very shabby dressing-gown and carried a crumpled newspaper in one hand. But he felt awkward. He could hardly go back to the warm sitting-room without saying something something more. Then because these people set such store by funerals he said kindly, "I hope the funeral went off all right." "Beg parding, sir?" said old Ma Parker huskily. Poor old bird! She did look dashed.
"But the father ain't," said the woman sharply, "and, begging your parding, sir, if 'e wants ter know where the byeby is 'e can come 'isself and not send sembody else!" "If the child is well, my good woman, and well cared for " "It is well keered for, and it's gorn to a pusson I can trust." "Then what have you got to conceal? Tell me where it is, and " "Not me!
"Certingly, sir." "To-day is my birthday, Brimberly, and to-night I've reached a kind of 'jumping off' place in my life, and between you and me I'm seriously thinking of er jumping off!" "I crave parding, sir?" "I'm thirty-five years old," continued Young R., his frown growing blacker, "and I've never done anything really worth while in all my useless life!
To Bessie Lovel, therefore, this sister of her husband's, in all the glory of her fresh young beauty and sumptuous apparel, seemed a creature of another sphere, something to be gazed upon almost in fear and trembling. "I beg your parding!" she faltered, rubbing her eyes.
"Don't think it's any of our people," came the astonishing reply from Barnett. "Are you sure?" "I can see only one man's face, sir. It isn't Ives or McGuire. He's a stranger to me." "It must be one of the crew, then." "No, sir, beg your parding," called the lookout. "Nothin' like that in our crew, sir." The boat came down upon them swiftly. Soon the quarter-deck was looking into her.
"Free parding, indeed!" in tones of indignant contempt, as she shut the door with a bang and retired in disgust from the scene. Amid some laughter, Joe readily drew forth an enormous clasp-knife and obeyed this command. Then the queen, stepping forward, held out her hand with a bright smile to Hugh Morris. None but an utterly abandoned wretch could have resisted that.
'I beg your parding, young man, said Mrs. Raddle, in a cold perspiration of anger. 'But will you have the goodness just to call me that again, sir? 'I didn't make use of the word in any invidious sense, ma'am, replied Mr. Benjamin Allen, growing somewhat uneasy on his own account. 'I beg your parding, young man, demanded Mrs. Raddle, in a louder and more imperative tone.
I were a soldier once an' a tur'ble drinker, but Mary Lord, sir, 'tis wonnerful how good a good woman can be an' how bad a bad 'un can be though she's generally made bad, I've noticed! Damme, sir, axin' your parding but damme notwithstanding, there's some men as I'd like to 'ave wrigglin' on the end of a bagnet!"
"I beg your parding, sir, you mentioned a 'am," she began, but stopped abruptly on seeing no one there but the prize-fighter standing before the fire in a free-and-easy manner with his hands in his breeches pockets. The light of the street-lamps had very imperfectly revealed the person of Jem Mace.
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