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He can't think 'ow partikler it is, can 'e, Will-yum?" Mr. Green shook his head. "It's worth more than a tanner then," said Tommy, briskly. "Look 'ere," said Joe, suppressing his natural instincts by a strong effort. "You keep quiet for three days, and I'll be a friend to you for life. And so will Will-yum, won't you, old man?" Mr. Green, with a smile of rare condescension, said that he would.
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."
"And pray who are you, that comes here to lecture us about our lingo?" cried one of the men fiercely, starting up and confronting Jarwin with clenched fists. "Why, mate," replied Jarwin, quietly folding back the cuffs of his coat, and putting himself in an attitude of defence, "I ain't nobody in partikler, not the Lord Chancellor o' England, anyhow still less the Archbishop of Canterbury.
If anything he seemed a trifle better, but the landlady's mother, wot came up to nurse 'im agin, said it was a bad sign, and that people often brightened up just afore the end. She asked 'im whether 'e'd got a fancy for any partikler spot to be buried in, and, talking about wot a lot o' people 'ad been buried alive, said she'd ask the doctor to cut Sam's 'ead off to prevent mistakes.
Stokes knocked at the door he stood modestly aside with his back against the wall of the next house. "Is George in?" inquired Mr. Stokes, carelessly, as Mrs. Henshaw opened the door. "No," was the reply. Mr. Stokes affected to ponder; Mr. Henshaw instinctively edged away. "He ain't in," said Mrs. Henshaw, preparing to close the door. "I wanted to see him partikler," said Mr. Stokes, slowly.
"Nuffin' oh! nuffin' but but when massa axes you who you is, an' what you bin up to, an' whar you're 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?"
It's fair oaffish to bob to the east as them 'Igh Jinkers does, for we aint never told in the Gospels that th' Almighty 'olds that partikler quarter o' the wind as a place o' residence.
"Come and have a pint," repeated the other, and with surprising ease pushed his bulky friend into the bar of the "Ship and Anchor." Mr. Chase, mellowed by a long draught, placed his mug on the counter and eyeing him kindly, said "I've been in my lodgings thirteen years." "I know," said Mr. Teak; "but I've got a partikler reason for wanting you. Our lodger, Mr.
"How should I know?" retorted Bob; "you don't suppose that the d'rectors is all my partikler friends, do you? There's only two or three of 'em as has the honer of my acquaintance."
"Well, mother," said Captain Wopper, "now that I've given you a full, true, an' partikler account of Switzerland, what d'ee think of it?" "It is a strange place very, but I don't approve of people risking their lives and breaking their limbs for the mere pleasure of getting to the top of a mountain of ice."
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