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Forcus." She gave him a screw of acid-drops for himself, and the boy ran off. "All ri', thenk ye. Tell Franky I looked in," he called. The next comer was the fat little maid-of-all-work from the butcher's, near by. She was red-haired, with a large goitre over which her afternoon black frock would not quite button. She was hardly worked from early morning, to late evening, and Mrs.
"Do 'e thenk as how you could do aal that, young man?" I sed. "No disrespect to 'e though, vor that don't argify; but I could ketch hold on 'e by the scroff o' yer neck an' the seat o' yer breeches, an' pitch 'e slick into the roadway among the iron." "Look heer, Meyster Turmot, you'll hev to pay twelve shillin' moor avoor you gwoes out o' heer, or Lunnon won't hold 'e to-night."
"One'd thenk," said Lois, sagely, "a chicken never stood on a wall before, to hear 'em, or a hen laid an egg." Nor did Holmes smile once because the chicken burlesqued man: his thought was too single for that yet. It was long before he thought of the people who came in quietly to see him as anything but shadows, or wished for them to come again.
'How do you do, Macgregor? she said formally yet timidly. 'Fine, thenk ye, he answered from sheer force of habit. Then 'Ye've come a lang road to see me, he said, gratitude asserting itself. 'It is a conseederable distance, she returned, with some recovery of her old manner. 'Your uncle said I must go the moment he heard where you were, and I quite homologated him.
He was in anything but the mood for joking, yet a certain dour humour in the jest caught his fancy and persuaded him against his better judgment. "Nemesis," he said briefly. "Mr. name what? Beg pardon, sir!" "Nem-e-sis," P. Sybarite articulated distinctly. "And don't Mister it. He'll understand." "Thenk you," muttered the servant blankly; and turned.
'I nearly filled the pint pot, and he drank it and stood on his head as long as he could, and when he got right end up he said, "Thenk yer, mum it's a fine day," and then he walked off. He had two saddle-straps in his hands. 'Why, what did he stand on his head for? asked Mary. 'To wash it up and down, I suppose, to get twice as much taste of the coffee. He had no hat.
But Lo's a good teacher, 'n' I'm tryin', I'm tryin' hard." "It's not slow, Sir, seein' father hedn't 'dvantages, like me. He was a" She stopped, lowering her voice, a hot flush of shame on her face. "I know." "Ben't that 'n 'xcuse, master, seein' I knowed noght at the beginnin'? Thenk o' that, master. I'm tryin' to be a different man. Fur Lo. I am tryin'." Holmes did not notice him.
Ye've had grave troubles. 'I have, sir, said Paul. 'I've known it, said his father. 'I've thoughts in my mind when ye're away: "Paul's blythe," or I thenk of ye, lad; I sit here in the auld arm-chair and think of ye, and eh, man, I'm just as certain of myself as if I were aware of every fact in your existence. Promise me this.
She therefore concealed her ignorance of her newest guest's identity, she stiffened her lips and poured out another cup of tea with a nerveless hand. The stranger took the cup of tea with some relief, and said: "Thenk you, meddem." The witch stopped dancing, and stood in front of the newcomer's chair. "I think yours must be a discouraging job," she said to him.
I'd get off the horse and give her a hand sometimes with a young steer, or a cranky old cow that wouldn't 'bail-up' and threatened her with her horns. She'd say 'Thenk yer, Mr Wilson. Do yer think we're ever goin' to have any rain?
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