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Indeed, I go so far as to hope that I regarded myself while dressing as a species of savage young wolf or other wild beast. However, I got dressed, darkly wiping my sanguinary face at intervals, and I said, "Can I help you?" and he said "No thankee," and I said "Good afternoon," and he said "Same to you." When I got into the courtyard, I found Estella waiting with the keys.
The traveller shook himself like a Newfoundland dog, and said it was, rather. 'There's a fire in the kitchen, said Mrs Lupin, 'and very good company there. Hadn't you better go and dry yourself? 'No, thankee, said the man, glancing towards the kitchen as he spoke; he seemed to know the way. 'It's enough to give you your death of cold, observed the hostess.
Certainly!" said I, tailing off from astonishment into understanding. The quiet humour of the man was delightful. I fetched a pistol out of my pocket and added gravely, "William, unless I am, in appearance as well as in fact, a prince's assistant aide-de-camp in half an hour, I'll blow your brains out. Now clear out, while I have a bath!" "Thankee, sir. It'll be all right now.
Here's your wretched ten shillings, for which you'd sell all the corpses in Raxton churchyard. And I gave him half-a-sovereign, feeling, somehow, that I was doing honour to Winifred. 'Thankee for the money, Mister Hal, anyhow, said the old creature. 'You was allus a liberal 'un, you was.
It was not an agreeable idea. Scrooge shivered, and wiped the perspiration from his brow. 'That is no light part of my penance, pursued the Ghost. 'I am here to-night to warn you that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate. A chance and hope of my procuring, Ebenezer. 'You were always a good friend to me, said Scrooge. 'Thankee!
"Thankee, gents, for your Christmas wishes. I'm glad my friends are with me." The words, in low, mournful cadence, came from the doorway; and all eyes turning there saw the stout, melancholy figure of Captain Barney, his great hooked nose falling dejectedly toward his chin, his hawk eyes dull and sombre.
Boanarg, who had just entered the house, "and as you will be exposed to new and unusual temptations, I thought it would be judicious to put this volume of 'Baxter's Call to the Unconverted' in your knapsack, for it may give you good counsel when you need it sorely." "Thankee," said Si, stowing away the book.
Ben appeared in full blue cloth and brass buttons, on duty again as butler. "Yassah " "I'm glad to see you, Ben. You're feeling yourself again?" "Yassah. Praise God, I'se back at my place once mo', sah." The master lifted his hand in warning. "Take care of yourself now. No more risks. You're not as young as you once were." "Thankee, sah." "Ask Mrs. Lee to bring me the document on my desk.
"I've watched them frisky little steam critters 'fore now, and they're most dujeous like to a babby jest a-larnin' to walk, or a tipsy man a-tryin' to steer straight when he sees double. No, thankee kindly, but I guess I'll say good-by ashore, where I can cry it out comfortable after you're gone."
"Ho, there, you landlubber, will you ship with us?" The Toyman touched his hat. "Thankee kindly, Cap'n, but I've killed many a pirate in my time. Now it's your chance. But it's blowin' great guns an' ye'd better cruise near shore." "Ay, ay, sir," shouted the captain as a last farewell, then they set sail.
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