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Then Mr Tom Tix, esk-vire, you must inform your angel wife and lovely family as you won't sleep at home for three nights to come, along of being in possession here. Wot's the good of the lady a fretting herself? continued Mr Scaley, as Madame Mantalini sobbed. 'A good half of wot's here isn't paid for, I des-say, and wot a consolation oughtn't that to be to her feelings!
'What's the demd total? was the first question he asked. 'Fifteen hundred and twenty-seven pound, four and ninepence ha'penny, replied Mr Scaley, without moving a limb. 'The halfpenny be demd, said Mr Mantalini, impatiently. 'By all means if you vish it, retorted Mr Scaley; 'and the ninepence.
She'll lie to yuh I'll bet all I got, she'll lie to yuh. And when a woman lies about where she's been to and what she's been doin', you can bet there's something scaley goin' on. Yuh can't fool ME!"
If I was to say what I think, I'd say yuh can't never trust an Injun and shiny hair and eyes and slim build don't make 'em no trustier. They's something scaley goin' on around here, and I'd gamble on it. And that there squaw's at the bottom of it. What fur's she ridin' off every day, 'n' nobody knowin' where she goes to?
'Good plate this here, Tix, said Mr Scaley to his friend. 'Ah! rejoined Mr Tix, placing the marks of his four fingers, and a duplicate impression of his thumb, on a piece of sky-blue silk; 'and this here article warn't made for nothing, mind you.
"Them juniper berries tastes the meat if you don't clean 'em out right away," he remarked casually to Lorraine, as he wiped the knife on his trousers and thrust it back into the boot-scabbard before he tied the grouse to the saddle by its blue, scaley little feet. When he was ready to go on, Snake refused to budge. Tough as he was, he had at last reached the limit of his energy and ambition.
After ringing the bell which would summon Madame Mantalini, Kate glanced at the card, and saw that it displayed the name of 'Scaley, together with some other information to which she had not had time to refer, when her attention was attracted by Mr Scaley himself, who, walking up to one of the cheval-glasses, gave it a hard poke in the centre with his stick, as coolly as if it had been made of cast iron.
'Oh! Is this the missis? inquired Scaley. 'It is Madame Mantalini, said Kate. 'Then, said Mr Scaley, producing a small document from his pocket and unfolding it very slowly, 'this is a writ of execution, and if it's not conwenient to settle we'll go over the house at wunst, please, and take the inwentory.
With these remarks, combining great pleasantry with sound moral encouragement under difficulties, Mr Scaley proceeded to take the inventory, in which delicate task he was materially assisted by the uncommon tact and experience of Mr Tix, the broker. 'My cup of happiness's sweetener, said Mantalini, approaching his wife with a penitent air; 'will you listen to me for two minutes?
All I got out of the whole swag was two thousand dollars, but even then, if he had done the square thing, I would have kept mum, though I were sent down to rock-pile. But the man that would play that low, scaley trick on me is going to suffer for it. What do you want to know?" "Now you are getting sensible," said Mr. Pinkerton. "We want to get the money. You know where it is?
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