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He then said, in a measured voice, as if addressing an assembly: "Sirr! I would have you to know that the working-men of Buffland are not thieves and robbers. In this struggle with capital they have my profound sympathy. I expect their conduct to be that of perr-fect gentlemen. I, at least, will give no orders which may tend to array one class of citizens against another.
I was in charge of a party told off for tae scrub the floor of Room Nummer Seeventeen. I ordered the prisoner tae scrub. He refused. I warned him. He again refused." Click! Lance-Corporal Ness has run down. He has just managed the sentence in a breath. "Corporal Mackay!" The figure upon Lance-Corporal Ness's right stiffens, and inflates itself. "Sirr, on the fufth unst. I was Orderly Sergeant.
Next moment there came a resounding crash, easily audible above the tornado raging in the garden, followed by the sound of splintering glass. Hush Hall rocked. The Mess waiter appeared. "A shell has just came in through the dining-room window, sirr," he informed the Mess President, "and broke three of they new cups!" "How tiresome!" said the Brigadier. "Dug-outs, everybody!"
We're serving together now, and you must get your revenge out of the Boche. I'm going to make you my servant, for you and I have a pretty close bond between us. What do you say to that? This time he looked me full in the face. His troubled eye appraised me and was satisfied. 'I'm proud to be servant to ye, sirr, he said.
The bed, after forming a basin, narrows to a sandy gut, smooth and pleasant riding; and, after crossing several valley-heads, the path debouches upon the Wady Abal-Gezaz. This "Father of Glass," though a day and a half's march from the sea, is even broader than the great Sirr to which it is tributary.
Ayling told him. "They are behind you, sirr." "I was just goin' to say, sir," chanted the guide, making one last effort to redeem his prestige, "as 'ow " "Party," commanded Ayling, "about turn!" Having received details of the route from the friendly Cameron, he scrambled out of the trench and crawled along to what was now the head of the procession. A plaintive voice followed him.
The pair made their way to the hitherto blind side of the building, and cautiously peeped through a much-perforated shutter in the living-room. "Do you see it, sirr?" inquired M'Snape eagerly. Angus chuckled. "See it? Fine! It is right in the open, in the middle of the street. Look!" He relinquished his peep-hole.
"Vara true, sirr; vara true, and sae I doot I will never attain the height o' profeeciency ye hae reached. An' at this vara moment, sir," continued Groove, with delicious solemnity and mystery, "ye see before ye, sir, a man wha is in maist dismal want o' ten shellen!" Gaattie." "Why did you not come to the point at once?" cried Gatty, bruskly, "instead of humbling me with undeserved praise.
"That's right, sirr," assented Dunshie politely. "Are you a professional?" "No exactly that, sirr," was the modest reply. "You just make a hobby of it?" "Just that, sirr." "Have you had much experience?" "No that much." "But you feel capable of taking on the job?" "I do, sirr." "You seem quite eager about it." "Yes, sirr," said Dunshie, with gusto. A sudden thought occurred to Ayling.
"Would master," Conseil said to me, "give us some background on pearl fishing?" "On the fishing itself?" I asked. "Or on the occupational hazards that " "On the fishing," the Canadian replied. "Before we tackle the terrain, it helps to be familiar with it." "All right, sit down, my friends, and I'll teach you everything I myself have just been taught by the Englishman H. C. Sirr!"
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