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"Praps it was, sir, but some on 'em had to go back agin to work," naively replied the Ganymede. "But how on earth could one man spend twenty pounds in a week, by merely drinking?" enquired William.
Singleton's a syentiffick man, praps he'll give us a leadin' article in your nixt so no more at present from Yours to command, This contribution was accompanied with an outline illustration of Mivins eating sugar with a ladle in the pantry, and Davie Summers peeping in at the door both likenesses being excellent.
"Have he got papers of identification about him, miss?" he asked in a stage whisper. "I don't know," she answered laughing. "He says that he is Mr. Owen Davies." "Well, praps he is and praps he ain't; anyway, it isn't my affair, and sixpence is sixpence." All of this the unfortunate Mr. Davies overheard, and it did not add to his equanimity.
There he is now, I'll be darned if he aint, standin afore his shop door, lookin as strong as high proof Jamaiky; I guess I'll whip it out o' the bung while he's a lookin arter the spicket, and praps he'll be none o' the wiser till be finds it out, neither. Well Squire, how do you do, said he, how's all to home? Reasonable well, I give you thanks, wont you alight? Cant to-day, said Mr.
"She looks like a queen, and steps like an empress, and this is how she writes: "'DEAR JORGE i have got the sak, an' praps your turn nex. dear jorge he alwaies promise me the grey oss, which now an oss is life an death to me. If you was to ast him to lend me the grey he wouldn't refuse you, "'Yours respecfully,
Was Deuceace sincere in his professions of love, or was he only a sharper wooing her for her money? Could she doubt her informer? his own father, and, what's more, a real flesh and blood pear of parlyment? She determined she would try him. Praps she did not know she had liked Deuceace so much, until she kem to feel how much she should HATE him if she found he'd been playing her false.
"Chawls," says he, handing me over a tenpun-note, "here's your wagis, and thank you for getting me out of the scrape with the bailiffs: when you are married, you shall be my valet out of liv'ry, and I'll treble your salary." His vallit! praps his butler! Yes, thought I, here's a chance a vallit to ten thousand a year.
"Stockings," was the monosyllabled reply. "Did you ever knit silk?" "Shouldn't think I did. I ain't grand enough to afford that." "You could, though, I know," said Clara. "Why, I dunno, praps so." Jane North was foiled, and she succumbed as gracefully as she could, although awkwardly enough; but Clara went on: "I have some beautiful silk thread, I have had it for years.
'Well, praps you didn't say exactly them words, but that's wot it amounts to. 'I never said anything of the kind. We've had Free Trade for the last fifty years and today most people are living in a condition of more or less abject poverty, and thousands are literally starving. When we had Protection things were worse still.
Why have you not kep' your promise? Why? Why? she persisted, stamping her foot because Willoughby remained silent. What could he say? Tell her she had no business to follow him like this; or own, what was, unfortunately, the truth, he was just a little glad to see her? 'Praps you don't care for me any more? she said. 'Well, why did you kiss me, then?
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