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A'Court, 22 April 1741; Admiralty Records 1. 1497 Capt. Upon the fleet the effect was appalling. Sickly tenders could not but make sickly ships. If the material atmosphere of the tender's hold was bad, its moral atmosphere was unquestionably worse. Dark deeds were done here at times, and no man "peached" upon his fellows.
His record was against him and he got a heavy sentence, with death as a penalty, if he ever sets foot in England again." "What," asked Mr. Gillett's youngest listener, "is 'peached'?" "In school-girl parlance, it is, I believe, to 'tell on' some one." "You mean a tattle-tale?" scornfully. "I hate them." "They have their uses," he answered softly. "And I'm rather partial to them, myself.
The latter grinned with feline humor after they held a short conference. "That's right," he said; "you don't need any of the boys to help you pull that off they'd mebbe go to actin' foolish an' give the whole snap away. Besides, I'm a heap tickled to be let in on that sort of a jamboree!" There followed an interval, during which his grin faded. "So she peached on you, eh?
He received these remonstrances very testily, save perhaps in this affair of poor Lockwood's, when he deigned to burst out a-laughing, and said, "What! the soubrette has peached to the amoureux, and Crispin is angry, and Crispin has served, and Crispin has been a corporal, has he? Tell him we will reward his valor with a pair of colors, and recompense his fidelity."
A hundred yards up the alley he found Lasky in the shadow of a telephone pole. "Wotinell are you doin' around here?" asked the patrolman. "Didn't you know that Sheehan had peached?"
But, good heavens! perhaps you didn't! Have I been indiscreet?" "Not at all. At Mrs, Desternay's, wasn't it?" "Yes, but you gave me a jolt. I was afraid I'd peached." "Not at all. They're friends." "Well, between you and me, they oughtn't to be. I let Gladys go, under protest I left her there myself but it's never again for her! I shall tell her so to-night."
There was no one to be seen in the cafe but Pere Canquoelle, who seemed to be asleep, two waiters who were dozing, and the accountant at the desk. Within four-and-twenty hours Gaudissart was arrested, the plot was discovered. Two men perished on the scaffold. Neither Gaudissart nor any one else ever suspected that worthy old Canquoelle of having peached.
One of them was caught, trying to sell some of the things, and he peached, and they jugged them all. Isn't that the fact, Hank?" "Well, it's no use lying; it was pretty much so." "What became of the other fellows, Hank?" "Why, their fathers or friends bailed them out, and I have no father, or anybody who cares for me.
But he had a wide knowledge of what we term the thieves' catacombs, and, well, he 'peached' on the big fellow. Gave testimony that was of great service to the prosecution. The case seemed clear enough; there was some sort of contrary evidence put in, but it didn't amount to anything.
'He has not peached so far, said the Jew as he pursued his occupation. 'If he means to blab us among his new friends, we may stop his mouth yet. Oliver soon recovering from the fainting-fit into which Mr. Brownlow's abrupt exclamation had thrown him, the subject of the picture was carefully avoided, both by the old gentleman and Mrs.
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