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Billy sat on and soaked, and the Mayor, across the counter, sat and watched his condition, quiet-like, till the time came for refusing any more liquor and turning him out. When that happened the old sinner would gather up his change and make off for another public. And the end was that he'd be up before the Mayor on Monday morning, charged with drunkenness.
'Ah, but that's no the same, John persisted, 'as meetin' her quiet-like. When I was courtin' you, Lizzie, did ye no prefer Lizzie ignored her man the only way. 'What aboot Friday, next week? 'If we're no in Flanders afore then, reluctantly replied the soldier of seven weeks' standing. Happily for Mrs.
He smiled sort o' quiet-like, and said: 'No, it war jest a difficulty about an overcharge of five sous, and it's all settled. 'All that row for five sous? I asked. 'Yes, he answered. Then I said, 'My God, suppose it hed a-been five francs, it would uv been ez good ez er play. Yo' see, that old trick thet they got from big Charlie, they overplay sometimes."
I watched an' waited ter'ble long time, an' de house an' all was still, 'cept de tread ob de guards. Mus' a' been about tree in de mawnin' when I heared a stir. It was very quiet-like, an' I hear no words, but now an' den dere was a jingle like a sabre make when a man walk.
He soon fell asleep, and after a while I dozed off too, and dreamt I were murdering Owd Jerry i' the staggarth. As soon as cockleet came, I wakkened up and crept downstairs, quiet-like, so as not to-wakken Mike or the childer. And there on the hearthstone were the ashes, and reet i' the middle on 'em the prent of a man's clog. "It were Jerry's clog as plain as life.
I walked in quiet-like, and sat down opposite 'im. "Morning," I ses. Joe Peel grunted. "'Ave one with me?" I ses. He grunted agin, but not quite so fierce, and I fetched the two pints from the counter and took a seat alongside of 'im. "I've been looking for you," I ses. "Oh!" he ses, looking me up and down and all over. "Well, you've found me now."
So that just to sit there in my dark shop quiet-like, and wonder about the history of my belongings and how they were made mine, is poetry, and is the deep and high and ancient thinking of a god who is dozing among what time has left of a dead world, if you understand me, Mother Sereda." "I understand: oho, I understand that which pertains to gods, for a sufficient reason."
"To-night, when they've all shot off their chins an' it's quiet-like, I want you to ask me, jest this way, 'Monty, seein' as you've hed more adventures than all them cow-punchers put together, tell us about the most turrible time you ever hed. Will you ask me, Miss Hammond, jest kinda sincere like?" "Certainly I will, Monty," she replied.
I walked in quiet-like, and sat down opposite 'im. "Morning," I ses. Joe Peel grunted. "'Ave one with me?" I ses. He grunted agin, but not quite so fierce, and I fetched the two pints from the counter and took a seat alongside of 'im. "I've been looking for you," I ses. "Oh!" he ses, looking me up and down and all over. "Well, you've found me now."
In fact, sir, my father is a family in himself Castors to take care of; and it happens all for the best that we have no child of our own, though it's made Mrs. William rather quiet-like, too. Quite ready for the fowl and mashed potatoes, sir? Mrs. William said she'd dish in ten minutes when I left the Lodge."
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