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He had assumed his most businesslike expression, but Bob rushed up to him. "Oh, uncle, I am so obliged to you! It is awfully kind." "I thought the arrangement would be a suitable one," Mr. Bale began. "No, no, uncle," Bob broke in. "You would say that, if you were in Philpot Lane. Now you know you can say that you thought it would be the very jolliest thing that was ever heard of."
But Philpot objected that if they went there, Madame Tussaud's might be unwilling to let them out again. Bundy endorsed the remarks that had fallen from Crass with reference to Tubberton. He did not care where they went, they would never get such a good spread for the money as they did last year at the Queen Elizabeth. The chairman said that he remembered the last Beano very well.
They had placed the matter fully and fairly before him: nothing more could be said: the issue now rested entirely with him. But it was all in vain. Sweater either did not or would not understand, and when he came downstairs he took no notice whatever of the cap which Philpot had placed so conspicuously in the centre of the landing floor. Who is to Pay?
In the evening two more of the crew died, also, before sunset, one Thomas Philpot, an old experienced seaman, and very strong; he departed rather convulsed; having latterly lost the power of articulation, his meaning could not be comprehended. He was a native of Belfast, Ireland, and had no family. The survivors found it a difficult task to heave his body overboard, as he was a very corpulent man.
Take it or leave it. Harlow and Philpot were both too much astonished to say anything in reply to this cheerful announcement, and Hunter, with the final remark, 'You can think it over, left them and went to deliver the same ultimatum to all the other full-price men, who took it in the same way as Philpot and Harlow had done. Crass and Owen were the only two whose wages were not reduced.
'I couldn't 'elp laughin' when I seen 'im go flyin' through the bloody door, said Bundy. 'You oughter 'ave more sense than to go interferin' like that, said Crass to Philpot. 'It was nothing to do with you. Philpot made no reply. He was standing with his back to the others, peeping out into the street over the top of the window casing. Then he opened the door and went out into the street.
'Shut up, can't you, Harlow, remonstrated Philpot, who began to feel interested. 'We can't all talk at once. 'I know we can't, replied Harlow in an aggrieved tone: 'but 'e takes sich a 'ell of a time to say wot 'e's got to say. Nobody else can't get a word in edgeways.
Philpot, who hardly could help smiling, acquitted me of playing intentionally the part of a disguised Jesuit. I must, however, have said something on behalf of the mystical Babylon, for not long afterward I was busy with a theological poem, prominent in which were the two following lines: Oh, mother, or city of the sevenfold throne, We sit beside the severing sea and mourn
So far it was impossible to foresee the end. It was anybody's game. Crass became so excited that he absentmindedly opened his mouth and shot his second pint down into his stomach with a single gulp, and Bundy also drained his glass and called upon Philpot and Easton to drink up and have another, which they accordingly did.
The French certainly know how to build ships; there is no question about that. I doubt whether we have such a good-looking gun-boat in the service. Anyhow I have not seen one." The petty officer who commanded the gun-boat saluted as Wilkinson came up to the side and announced that he had come to take command of the boat. "Am I to remain on board, Mr. Wilkinson?" "Yes, Mr. Philpot.
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