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It's all in the present and leads to nothing and ain't got no future." "What could the pore thing do? She wasn't so wonderful pretty; and then men like " "She was str'ight with him, say what yer like. Only she ought to been more patienter, and she needn't 'a been so hard on the lady, neither." "She had everything the heart could wish. Look at her rooms! I wonder who'll "
Half-a-dozen verses were thus massacred, and the reciter stopped with the sudden jerk of a machine. 'Goes str'ight on, don't 'e, Grace? cried the father, exultantly. 'Jowey ain't no fool. Know what he towld me the other day? Somethin' as I never knew, and shouldn't never 'ave thought of s'long as I lived. We was talkin' about jewellery, an' Jowey, 'e pops up all at wunst.
I've just told him str'ight that if he comes into this shop again I'll kick 'im. I told him str'ight see?" "Did you? I like to hear a man talk like that. It shows there's something in him. Who is the fellow? I seem to remember him somehow." "Quodlings' traveller. And he's lost them my orders. And I shall write and tell 'em so.
I never did like that chap; but when he comes in 'ere, with his white 'at, telling me how to manage my own business, and larfin', yis larfin', why, I've done with him. And I told him str'ight," etc. "Quodlings', eh?" said Gammon reflectively. "They're likely to be wanting a new traveller, I should say." "They will if they take my advice," replied the shopkeeper.
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