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'Ah, well, said Mrs. Crump, shaking her head solemnly; 'there's a sad story attached to the family. My niece, what the master and I have brought up like one of our own children, has got the sitivation as maid to Mrs. Fairfax, and she knows all the ins and outs of their trouble as no one else do. You see, this is how it is! They were a Lunnon family, and come down here first for change of air.
Never steal, 'specially when any one be in the way. Never go snacks with them as be older than you, 'cause why? The older a cove be, the more he cares for hisself, and the less for his partner. At twenty, we diddles the public; at forty, we diddles our cronies! Be modest, Paul, and stick to your sitivation in life.
"`Please sir, pleaded the boy, `don't mention the wages. I couldn't stand that. Indeed I couldn't; it would really be too much for me. "`Why, what do you mean? says master. "`I mean, says Impudence, `that I agree with you. I don't think I could retain the sitivation, cause w'y?
Bobby said this with such an expression of serious anxiety that his little friend was quite touched. "I hope not, Bob," he replied. "What d'ee say to axin' our Guardian to put us both into the same sitivation?" Bobby thought that this was not a bad idea, and as they rolled along these two little waifs gravely discussed their future prospects.
Never steal, 'specially when any one be in the way. Never go snacks with them as be older than you, 'cause why? The older a cove be, the more he cares for hisself, and the less for his partner. At twenty, we diddles the public; at forty, we diddles our cronies! Be modest, Paul, and stick to your sitivation in life.
"Well, Bobby," she said, laying her hand on his shoulder, "where have you been?" "To see old Swallow'd-the-poker, Hetty." "What took you there?" asked the girl in surprise. "My legs. You don't suppose I've set up my carriage yet, do you?" "Come, you know what I mean." "Vell, then, I went because I was sent for, an' wot d'ye think? the old gen'l'man hoffered me the sitivation of under-gardener!"
'I forgot, exclaimed Mr. Ben Allen. 'It is my aunt. 'Dear me! said Mr. Pickwick. 'Poor lady! Gently Sam, gently. 'Strange sitivation for one o' the family, observed Sam Weller, hoisting the aunt into a chair. 'Now depitty sawbones, bring out the wollatilly!
'Perhaps you might come out rather too strong for a serious family's taste, Mark. 'That's possible, sir. If I could get into a wicked family, I might do myself justice; but the difficulty is to make sure of one's ground, because a young man can't very well advertise that he wants a place, and wages an't so much an object as a wicked sitivation; can he, sir?
Master Beck, nothing's so vulgar as these nicknames in a first-rate sitivation. It is all very well when one lives with skinflints, but with such a master as our'n, respect's the go. Besides, Madame is not a French 'oman; she is one of the family, and as old a family it is, too, as e'er a lord's in the three kingdoms.
On this occasion Bob Lumpy and Pat Stiver had met and joined hands in great delight, not unmingled with surprise. "Well, who'd ever have expected to find you here?" said Bob. "Ah, who indeed?" echoed Pat. "The fact is, I came to be near you, Bob." "But how did it happen? Who got you the sitivation? Look alive! Don't be long-winded, I see they're gittin' our boat ready." "This is 'ow it was, Bob.
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