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'But two could play at your game, said Riderhood, snapping his fingers at him half a dozen times, 'and I played it long ago; long afore you tried your clumsy hand at it; in days when you hadn't begun croaking your lecters or what not in your school. I know to a figure how you done it. Where you stole away, I could steal away arter you, and do it knowinger than you.
But he is most excellent company, that man, and I want him to come and see me at my Lock, up the river. 'I'll tell him so. 'D'ye think he'll come? asked Riderhood. 'I am sure he will. 'Having got your word for him, said Riderhood, 'I shall count upon him. P'raps you'd so fur obleege me, learned governor, as tell him that if he don't come precious soon, I'll look him up. 'He shall know it.
He raised his head and came back, wet from head to foot, but with the lower parts of his sleeves, where he had dipped into the river, streaming water. 'Your face is like a ghost's, said Riderhood. 'Did you ever see a ghost? was the sullen retort. 'I mean to say, you're quite wore out. 'That may well be. I have had no rest since I left here.
While they were doing so, Riderhood still sat staring disconsolate. 'All right. Give way! said Lightwood. 'Give way, by George! repeated Riderhood, before shoving off. 'If he's gone and made off any how Lawyer Lightwood, it's enough to make me give way in a different manner. But he always WAS a cheat, con-found him! He always was a infernal cheat, was Gaffer.
Very lately, the young woman, Lizzie Hexam, daughter of the late Jesse Hexam, otherwise Gaffer, who will be remembered to have found the body of the man from somewhere, mysteriously received, she knew not from whom, an explicit retraction of the charges made against her father, by another water-side character of the name of Riderhood.
'Suck him down, or swaller him up, he wouldn't get out, said Riderhood. 'Not even, if his hands warn't tied, he wouldn't. Shut him in at both ends, and I'd give him a pint o' old ale ever to come up to me standing here. Bradley looked down with a ghastly relish. 'You run about the brink, and run across it, in this uncertain light, on a few inches width of rotten wood, said he.
Mortimer Lightwood asked him, would he be so good as look at those notes? Handing him Eugene's. 'Have you heard these read? he then demanded of the honest man. 'No, said Riderhood. 'Then you had better hear them. And so read them aloud, in an official manner.
There was something additional to look for. They were all three more sharply on the alert, and less deadened by the miserable influences of the place and time. More than an hour had passed, and they were even dozing, when one of the three each said it was he, and he had NOT dozed made out Riderhood in his boat at the spot agreed on.
I have come back for a couple of hours' rest. 'You want 'em, said Riderhood, making towards the schoolmaster by his plank bridge. 'I don't want them, returned Bradley, irritably, 'because I would rather not have them, but would much prefer to follow him all night. However, if he won't lead, I can't follow.
All I was wishing to mention, Captain, afore you took your departer, said the sneaking Mr Riderhood, falling out of his path, 'was, your handsome words relating to the reward. 'When I claim it, said the man, in a tone which seemed to leave some such words as 'you dog, very distinctly understood, 'you shall share it.
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