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He had only been in the sitting-room a minute or two when the Elder entered, and stopping in front of him asked sharply: "Hev you seen Loo yet?" "No. Is she down?" "I reckoned you'd know ef she had made out anythin' partikler to do to-day." "No," he repeated seriously, the Elder's manner impressing him. "No! she told me nothing, but perhaps she hasn't got up yet." "She ain't in her room."
The young man must ha' taken a basketful into the church. Some he put into the pews, some into the collectin' boxes, some under the cushions you never knew where you were going to find 'em next!" "That was a blackguardly thing to do," I said. "The man who did it deserves the cat." "So he does," said Johnny. "But I can tell yer, it's made us more partikler ever since.
And the first thing I saw when I got aboard was this here chap Warner, who was washing himself up for'ard with a sentry standing over him and his leg irons lying on the deck ready to be shackled on again as soon as he had finished washing. I noticed his big beard, and partikler noticed the ship on his breast. I asked one of the bluejackets who the chap was.
I am young yet, thank God, and can work; and if there is a way out of this miserable business, I shall find it." "I knew," said Bill, with a surliness that ill concealed his evident admiration of the calm figure before him "I knew the partikler style of d n fool that you was, and expected no better. Good by, then God Almighty! who's that?"
Cutts for coming to do away with it all. "Any help I can give you shall be given cheerful," he ses to the keeper. "When I want your help I'll ask you for it," ses Mr. Cutts. "Thankee," ses Bob Pretty. "I on'y 'ope I sha'n't get my face knocked about like yours 'as been, that's all; 'cos my wife's so partikler." "Wot d'ye mean?" ses Mr. Cutts, turning on him. "My face ain't been knocked about."
"But you're no end of a help. It does me good just to see you. What is it, Petrie?" "A gentleman to see you, sir," responded the constable in crisp tones. "A gentleman by name of Merriton, Sir Nigel Merriton he said his name was. Bit of a toff I should say by the look of 'im. And wants to see you partikler. He mentioned Mr. Cleek's name, sir, but I told 'im he wasn't in at the moment.
"Ye maun kin weel, Sam'l, 'at there's mony a lass wid jump at ye." "Ou, weel," said Sam'l, implying that a man must take these things as they come. "For ye're a dainty chield to look at, Sam'l." "Do ye think so, Eppie? Ay, ay; oh, I d'na kin am onything by the ordinar." "Ye mayna be," said Eppie, "but lasses doesna do to be ower partikler." Sam'l resented this, and prepared to depart again.
"Nuffin' oh! nuffin' but but when massa axes you who you is, an' what you bin up to, an' whar your a-gwine to, an' what wages you want, jist you answer 'im in a sorter permiscuous way, an' don't be too partikler." "Wages! man, what d' ye mean?"
"Partikler old party, ain't he, Bill?" said another. "You leave 'im alone," said the man addressed, surveying the captain's efforts with a smile of approval. "You keep on, Nugent, don't you mind 'im. There's a little bit there you ain't done." "Keep your head out of the way, unless you want it knocked off," said the incensed captain. "Ho!" said the aggrieved Bill. "Ho, indeed!
"What is it, Ben?" he asked, raising himself on his elbow, and looking inquiringly in the face of his protector. "Nothing partikler, my lad," answered the sailor, who did not wish to terrify his companion with the dark thoughts which were troubling himself. "I heard you groaning, did I not? I was afraid you had seen them coming after us." "No fear o' that, not a bit.
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