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"The perlice might want to examine it if we took it through the dock. Come on, Jimmy, old man." "Yes; all right," says the boy, nodding 'is 'ead at 'im. "I'll stay up 'ere. You might forget yourself, Bill, if I trusted myself down there with you alone. You can throw my share up to me, and then you'll leave the ship afore I do. See?"
He won't dare tech me," shouted Tim, "so long as Mister Peter's here." That speech alone showed the magnitude of his position in their eyes. He was now not merely, "friends wid de perlice;" he was held in fear by that awesome body! "If I was as big as him," said one, "I'd fire all the peelers." "Wouldn't that be dandy!" cried another.
'And I says, said one of the men with that slow, emphatic delivery in which the most ordinary sentiments are given forth as if they were wisdom unheard and undreamt of before; 'and I don't mind who hears me, as Gray did oughter set the perlice on to 'un to find the heartless jade as did 'un.
She stared at me. "Haven't you heard?" "Heard what?" "About him." "What about him?" "He's took." "Took? Dead?" "No, took by the perlice." "By the police!" I gasped. "Do you mean they've arrested him?" "Yes, that's it, and " I waited to hear no more, but tore up the village to find Poirot.
Sus. The perlice, indeed! You get out of this, ma'am, or I'll make you! you and your cowardly man-pup there, as is afraid to look me in the face through the crack o' the door! Get out, I say, with your insolence that's your word! Exit MRS. CLIFFORD. Mat. Susan! Susan! what is to become of us? Sus. She daren't do it the old scrooge! But just let her try it on!
"The perlice cove an' the swell," said Lizer, suddenly. "Come to see yer turn up your toes." "I ain't dead yet, ye whelp," snarled the hag with sudden energy; "an' if I gits up I'll turn up yer toes, cuss ye." Lizer gave a shrill laugh of disdain, and Kilsip stepped forward.
Moss was in the sitting-room downstairs. "Father is there?" exclaimed Rachel. Then the girl, who had learned to understand that Mr. Moss was not regarded as a welcome visitor, assured her that he was at the moment entertained by Mr. O'Mahony. "He's a-telling of what the perlice said to him in the City, but I don't think as the Jew gentleman minds him much."
Society people applied much the same test as did the little "angle" children, only in place of "he's frinds wid der perlice," they substituted "he's very intimate with Miss De Voe, and the Ogdens and the Pells."
You will send for the perlice, won't you, and you'll have that howid puson upstairs put in pwison. Go 'way, aunt. I never did like you, and I never will, and you is awfu' poky in that bonnet. But I'll go with you, old man." Here she flung her fat arms round her uncle's neck and gave him a hug.
She bounced in at the door as bold as brass, and sings out, 'Is he in? 'Get out, I says, 'or I'll call the perlice. 'Oh no, you won't, says she. 'You'll give him that, and she shoves a letter into my hands. 'Who's him? I asks. 'I dunno, she answers. 'It's written there, and I can't read; give it him at once. And then she clears out before I could stop her." "And the letter was for Mr.
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