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'Ah, he said, shaking his touzled head, 'this ain't the fust time I've been 'ere in my puffessional capacity, not by a long way. Not by a long way, it ain't. Mr. Rummles, him as I mentioned to you afore, and a nice pleasant-spoken gentleman he was, too in the tea trade Mr.
You ain't been too ambitious, which is the error most parties falls into with small 'ouses. Now the parties as 'ad the place before you by the name o' Rummles well, I daresay they satisfied theirselves, but the 'ouse never looked right not to my taste, it didn't! 'George, get rid of this person! said Ella rapidly, under her breath, in French.
The last time ah, I recklect well, I was called in to see if somethink wasn't wrong with the ballcock in the top cistin. I see there was somethink, and I come away as usual. That day week, old Mr. Rummles was took with a fit on the floor in the back droring-room, which broke up the 'ouse!
"Coppers will play these games," you sez. All right, then; but you let me finish. Third time there was a flaw in one of the gas-brackets in the spare room. I soddered it up and I come away. Soon arterwards, a day or two as it might be, Mrs. Rummles 'ad 'er mar a-stayin' with her, and the old lady slep in that very room, and was laid up weeks!
"Curus," says I, when I come to 'ear of it, "very curus!" and it set me a-thinkin'. Last time but one 'ere, lemme see that was a bell-'anging job, I think no, I'm wrong, it was drains agen, so it were drains it was agen. And the next thing I 'eard was that Mrs. Rummles was a-layin' at death's door with the diffthery!
"Dammit, I've burned my mooth," he ejaculated, spluttering, spitting and wiping his mouth. "But the laddie can rin. He's a fair dandie o' a rinner." "He couldna' rin to catch the cauld," broke in Rundell's admirer, glad to get in a word. "Look at him. Dammit, ye could wheel a barrow oot through his legs. He jist rummles alang like a chained tame earthquake."
Don't you interrupt; you wait till I'm done, and see if I'm talking at random or without facks to support me. Well, fust time as ever I was sent for 'ere was in regard to drains, as they couldn't flush satisfactory. I did my work and come away. Not three weeks arter, Miss Rummles, the heldest gell, was took ill with typhoid.
Rummles, he allus sent round for me whenever there was hany odd jobs as wanted doin', and in course I was allus pleased to get 'em, be they hodd or hotherwise. 'Er-exactly, said George, as soon as he could put in a word; 'but you see, this lady and I
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