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No; I've got pretty well hardened to people smoking about me now. Sorry I can't offer you a cigar, Jerry." "Pipe's good enough for such as me, sir. There," continued the man, as he filled his briar-root, "aren't I keeping my tongue well in hand? Haven't called you S'Richard once." "And you must not, whatever you do."
"Only this, S'Richard," said the man, eagerly, and he now had laced up the shoes he had brought in and thrust them beneath the curtain. "You see, my father he used to say as it was a chap's dooty to try and rise in the world." "Yes, of course," said Richard Frayne, thoughtfully taking up a piece of the contrivance upon which he had been at work.
I s'pose you're right; but then there's pyanners, sir, and orgins, sir, street and otherwise!" "Exactly, Jerry," said the young student drily. "There, I'm busy now; I'll remember what you said, and, if I can have you with me, I will." "Thank you kindly, S'Richard. Don't you be afraid as I won't do my dooty by you!" "I won't, Jerry. Then that's all, isn't it?"
"Well, S'Richard, it's making very bold like; but I can't help liking you, sir, and 'fore long you'll be passing and getting appointed to your regiment; and as I've got a great taste for soljering myself, I thought I'd ask you to take me with you." "You you want to be a soldier, Jerry?" "Yes, sir.
"There's two double centre-fire breech-loaders in the case," he said to himself, "and there's his revolver and his sword, besides that old hunting-knife in the shark's-skin case there's every temptation for a young man to do it. Oh, what a world this is! Why, that there Mark Frayne's been the cause of all the trouble, and driven S'Richard away blow him! Dick Smithson.
"Yes, S'Richard; but, you see, you never ain't not busy. When you ain't at your books, getting ready for the gov'nor, you're out with Mr Mark Frayne, sir, or some of the other gents; and when you are at home here, sir, you're always tunin' up, an' windin' up, or 'venting something." "Well, there, I am, Jerry," said the young man smoothing his perplexed-looking brow. "Now, then, what is it?"
I often watches you when you goes out, and I says to myself, `Look at him! I cut him, and brushed him, and shaved him' not as there's much to shave yet, sir." "No, Jerry," said the young man, passing his hand over his upper lip and chin; "it's rather a work of supererogation at present." "A what, sir?" "Work of supererogation, Jerry." "Exactly, S'Richard; that's just what it is.
Good-night!" "No; a bad night!" said Jerry. "Poor S'Richard! I'd give anything to see him again!" By the next morning the flood was subsiding rapidly, and at night the muddy meadows began to show that the river was sinking back into its bed. All that evening boats were out, and people watched in expectation of that which they felt would soon be found.
He doesn't mean anything by it, for he's a good fellow at heart; and when he feels that he has hurt your feelings I daresay it will mean an apology, and perhaps something else." "Thankye, S'Richard, thankye," said the man. "I know'd you'd say something o' that sort, but don't you speak to him. It wouldn't do no good. He wouldn't 'pologise to such as me; and as to a tip not him!
They're a-saying, sir, that you tried to kill Mr Mark Frayne because he was going to tell on you about some money troubles. It ain't true, is it, sir?" "True!" cried Richard, flushing indignantly. "I knowed it wasn't!" said Jerry, triumphantly. "You couldn't ha' done such a thing, S'Richard; but I wouldn't ha' believed as you could hit so hard." "Go now, please."
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