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"Are we to stop long here, Mister Turnkey?" asked Ben, as he was about to follow. The man vouchsafed no reply, but again pointed to the cell. "I've always heered ye wos a purlite nation," said Ben, as he followed his messmate; "but there's room for improvement." The door was shut, and the two friends stood for a few minutes in the centre of their cell, gazing in silence around the blank walls.
"All right, old girl," said Ned, who would have said the same words if she had proposed to stand on her head on the step so easy was he in his mind as to how his wife spent her time; "if you sit for half-an-hour or so I'll be back to see you 'ome again. I'm on'y goin' to Bundle's shop for a bit o' baccy. Ain't I purlite now? Don't it mind you of the courtin' days?" "Ah!
"She looked at me, oh what a look of pity it was", as much as to say, 'Where have you been all your born days, not to know better nor that? but I guess you don't know better in the States how could you know any thing there? But she only said it was the custom here, for she was a very purlite old woman, was Aunty.
"Sure, ye couldn't ait it!" interposed Briant; "but afther all, there's no sayin'. Maybe Nikel Sling could make a tasty dish out of it stewed in oakum and tar." "It wouldn't be purlite to take such a tit-bit from the mermaids," observed Gurney, as the oars were once more dipped reluctantly, in the water.
Well, to continue, then there's Missis Stoutley, she's falled in love too." "Indeed?" "Yes, with wittles. The Count Hur what's-'is-name, who's always doin' the purlite when he's not mopin', says it's the mountain hair as is agreein' with her, but I think its the hair-soup. Anyhow she's more friendly with her wittles here than she ever was in England.
Massa's not always so purlite as he might be!" "There is no fear," said Nigel, "not at present, anyhow, for Van der Kemp says that the force of this eruption is diminishing "
There is so much competition in that line in our country, that he consaited the business was overdone, and he opened a Lyceum to Charleston South Car, for boxin', wrestlin' and other purlite British accomplishments; and a most a beautiful sparrer he is, too; I don't know as I ever see a more scientific gentleman than he is, in that line.
"Wot is to be done?" demanded the Bloater. "Invite a Bobby to come an' help us," suggested Jim. "H'm! an' stop 'em in their game, p'raps, at a pint w'ere nobody could prove nothink against 'em, besides bringin' on ourselves the purlite inquiry, `Wot are you up to 'ere?" Little Jim looked disconsolate and said nothing, which, as the Bloater testily remarked, was another of his witty rejoinders.
There is so much competition in that line in our country, that he consaited the business was overdone, and he opened a Lyceum to Charleston South Car, for boxin', wrestlin' and other purlite British accomplishments; and a most a beautiful sparrer he is, too; I don't know as I ever see a more scientific gentleman than he is, in that line.
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