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Paying no attention to this pleasantry, the Chinaman closed the door with an air of mystery, and, going up to Edgar, looked him inquiringly in the face, as he said interrogatively: "I's pleeceman. You's Eggirbringting?" "Not a bad attempt," exclaimed Edgar, with a laugh. "I suppose that is my name translated into Chinese."
He has been creeping along the bank for ever so long, and he nearly got hold of the boat." "Who was it?" whispered Dexter. "Pleeceman, but pull hard, and we shall get away from him yet."
"Pleeceman?" said Racey. "No, I don't mean that. The policeman only takes them to prison, he doesn't keep them when they are once there. But let's get on with the toast, or our tea'll be all cold before we're ready for it." It was no good thinking of splitting the slices, we had to make the best of them, thick as they were. And it took all our planningness to do without a toasting-fork.
And then she'd sit on your knee, and you'd tell her how you shot the policeman, and you'd examine the swag together ! Why, I can't imagine anything cozier. Perhaps there would be little Spikes running about the house. Can't you see them jumping with joy as you slid in through the window, and told the great news? 'Fahzer's killed a pleeceman! cry the tiny, eager voices.
But I am not sure that he would succeed any the better n remembering this obligation of romantic grace if his name were spelt phonetically, supposing that it could be spelt phonetically. Some spelling-reformers, I am told, in the poorer parts of London do spell his name phonetically, very phonetically. They call him a "pleeceman."
It may easily be imagined with what mingled feelings of anxiety and impatience the "tall, stout, and extremely handsome young man" listened to this narrative as it was volubly delivered by the "pleeceman" and slowly translated by Chok-foo. When at last he was fairly in possession of all that the messenger had to relate, Edgar paced up and down the room for a few seconds with rapid strides.
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