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"Anyway, I'll take 'em up on a charge of unlawful possession, pending inquiries. And the magistrate will deal with the case. Send the afflicted ones to a home, as likely as not, and the boys to a reformatory. Now then, come along, youngsters! No use making a fuss. You bring the gells along, Mr. Peasemarsh, sir, and I'll shepherd the boys."
Still it was a blow, even to the most desponding, when he said shortly: 'Willum, shut the yard doors, and Willum grinned and went to shut them. 'Good-afternoon, said Robert hastily; 'we shan't buy any of your horses now, whatever you say, and I hope it'll be a lesson to you. He had seen a little side gate open, and was moving towards it as he spoke. But Billy Peasemarsh put himself in the way.
If I ever see him again I'll wish for something for you; at least I would if vengeance wasn't wicked so there! 'Lor' lumme, said Billy Peasemarsh, 'if there ain't another on 'em! And now Willum came -back with a spiteful grin on his face, and at his back a policeman, with whom Mr Peasemarsh spoke long in a hoarse earnest whisper. 'I daresay you're right, said the policeman at last.
"If you were going to buy a carriage and horses, where would you go?" asked Cyril, as if he were only asking for the sake of something to say. "Billy Peasemarsh, at the Saracen's Head," said the old man promptly. "Though all forbid I should recommend any man where it's a question of horses, no more than I'd take anybody else's recommending if I was a-buying one.
He was a long lean man, with very blue eyes and a tight mouth and narrow lips. "We should like to buy some, please," said Robert politely. "I daresay you would." "Will you show us a few, please? To choose from." "Who are you a-kiddin of?" inquired Mr. Billy Peasemarsh. "Was you sent here of a message?"
And as for tuppence what do you call this? And before the others could stop him he had pulled out two fat handfuls of shining guineas, and held them out for Mr Peasemarsh to look at. He did look. He snatched one up in his finger and thumb. He bit it, and Jane expected him to say, 'The best horse in my stables is at your service. But the others knew better.
He was a long lean man, with very blue eyes and a tight mouth and narrow lips. 'We should like to buy some, please, said Robert politely. 'I daresay you would. 'Will you show us a few, please? To choose from. 'Who are you a-kiddin of? inquired Mr Billy Peasemarsh. 'Was you sent here of a message?
There's been burglars over at Peasemarsh Place Beale's just told me and they've took every single one of Lady Chittenden's diamonds and jewels and things, and she's a-goin out of one fainting fit into another, with hardly time to say 'Oh, my diamonds! in between. And Lord Chittenden's away in London." "Lady Chittenden," said Anthea; "we've seen her.
"Not so fast, you young off-scouring!" he said. "Willum, fetch the pleece." Willum went. The children stood huddled together like frightened sheep, and Mr. Peasemarsh spoke to them till the pleece arrived. He said many things. Among other things he said "Nice lot you are, aren't you, coming tempting honest men with your guineas!" "They are our guineas," said Cyril boldly.
'Anyway, I'll take 'em up on a charge of unlawful possession, pending inquiries. And the magistrate will deal with the case. Send the afflicted ones to a home, as likely as not, and the boys to a reformatory. Now then, come along, youngsters! No use making a fuss. You bring the gells along, Mr Peasemarsh, sir, and I'll shepherd the boys.