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"I say, mister, you're doin' the thing in style here, and no mistake. I've been havin' a look round this here tent of yourn while you've been away, and I see as you've acshully got a pianner in the next room. And where's your shipmate gone to?" "My shipmate?" repeated Leslie, staring blankly at him. "Ay, your shipmate," reiterated Turnbull, severely.
Jones, looking reproachfully at the mistress of the house, "I've never 'andled a pianner " At this moment a well-known voice was heard in the recesses of the van, behind the piano and sideboard and hat-stand. "Hey! let me out! What you've gone blockin' up the van for? I can't get out!" There was a horror-stricken silence. Then Ethel said sharply: "What did you go in for?"
Why, for two pins I'd go in and smash 'is pianner first and 'im after it. He won't live 'ere long, you take my word for it." "Why not?" inquired his wife. "Why?" repeated Mr. Grummit. "Why? Why, becos I'll make the place too 'ot to hold him. Ain't there enough houses in Tunwich without 'im a-coming and living next door to me?" For a whole week the brain concealed in Mr.
Them two cut-throats ain't paying Rabiner good money for only playing the pianner. He's got to sell goods too." "That's all right, Mawruss," Abe said. "Let him go ahead and spiel pianner till he's blue in the face.
"You won't say anything about this to the young lady that plays the pianner? Because, you see, I might fall down." "I won't say a word, Jake." "And not to Rita, neither?" he asked plaintively, "because Rita's about the only gal cares two straws for me. She comes often when nobody knows about it. She brings cake and pie, and swell cooked meat sometimes.
"And it don't look natural neither to see a man playin' the pianner it's like seein' him knittin'." But Lancelot was knitting his brows in a way that was exceedingly natural. "I may as well tell you at once that what you propose is impossible. First of all, because I am doubtful whether I shall remain in these rooms; and secondly, because I am giving up the piano immediately.
An' I tell yeh what was strange about that there noise: it seemed like all the music that everybody had ever expected to play on that pianner for the nex' hundred years come a-boomin' out all to oncet in one great big whoop-hurray that echered up an' down that cañon fer half an hour. "'We've lost somethin', says I, cheerful-like, fer I thinks the' 's no use cryin' over spilt pianners.
Heard him once," said a gentleman of Siskiyou. "He just made that pianner get up and howl. Play Rube." She shook her head with parted lips and a slight touch of girlish coquetry in her manner. Then her fingers suddenly dropped upon the keys with a glassy tinkle; there were a few quick pizzicato chords, down went the low pedal with a monotonous strumming, and she presently began to hum to herself.
I only have it on hire, and I I " He felt himself blushing. "Oh, what a pity!" interrupted Mrs. Leadbatter. "You might as well let me go on payin' the hinstalments, instead of lettin' all you've paid go for nothing. Rosie ain't got much time, but I could allow 'er a 'our a day if it was my own pianner." Lancelot explained "hire" did not mean the "hire system."
What do you care you are spending a hundred and twenty-five dollars for a fiddle when for seventy-five dollars on Lenox Avenue and a Hundred and Sixteenth Street, with my own eyes I seen it, you could buy a square pianner with a stool and scarf yet, as good as new. If you want to schenk the feller something, why didn't you told me?
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