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"No, I won't." "Thank Gawd f'r that!" Pete exclaimed in maudlin gratitude. He swung widely toward the door, and by a miracle found it. "G'night, Mish'r Duncan. I feel s' good 'bout thish I'm goin' try goin' home 'nd face m' wife. G'night." "Good-night, Pete." "Well!" said Kellogg after a pause, "that was a bit of luck!" "Luck!" Nat seized his hat and began to turn off the lights.
"Ever sinch 'leven o'clock, Conshance," supplemented Freddie, trying to frown. "My dear Miss F-Fowler," began Odell-Carney in, his most suave manner, "it is after two o'clock. In in the morning at that. You you shouldn't be sittin' here all 'lone thish this hour in the morning. Please come home with us. Your mother hash has ask us to fetch you I mean your sister. Beg pardon."
That worthy caused a stir, then a silence, by going round about the tables, so as not to come between Pan and any men there. "Blink, do you know where Louise's room is?" queried Pan. "Shore. Down thish hall third door on left," replied Blinky. "Well, you go over there to Blake and tell him I want to talk to him. Then you go to Louise's room. I'll follow directly."
A gentleman of a rotund person, clothed in correct evening dress and whose speech was of a thickness to indicate recent indulgence in intoxicating liquors, alighted from the carriage. "I do not believe thish ish the place. No, thish ish not the place I told you to come to, driver. I'm glad it isn't anyway, as I'm afraid we're too drunk to sing a serenade. Here's another man as's drunk, too.
"Don't want ruin the wires I'm careful 'bout wires. Big fall snow wouldn't do more damage 'n heavy words like that," he explained to the listening circle. "Think I look like tetradecapod?" he asked of them as one who makes conversation. "Had that in geology lesson when I was fifteen," he went on. "Got lodged in crack in brain and there tish t' thish day!
During the evening he had been standing against a bar drinking whiskies and declaring to all comers, confidentially: "My home reg'lar livin' hell! Damndes' place! Reg'lar hell! Why do I come an' drin' whisk' here thish way? 'Cause home reg'lar livin' hell!" Jimmie waited a long time in the street and then crept warily up through the building.
Thish yer comes of trust'n to Providence. It's the best way, in the long run. I've tried 'em all, and ther' ain't no better way." Most everybody would a been satisfied with the pile, and took it on trust; but no, they must count it. So they counts it, and it comes out four hundred and fifteen dollars short.
Thish factor thinks h' ownsh Gordon's now. I say, not'll h' marries you. Good fellow, Richard, but infernal forward. Eh, Courtenay?" Philip turned away, while the doctor pretended to examine the silver punch-ladle. As for me, I could only stare. It was Patty who kept her head, and made us a stately curtsey. "Will you do me the kindness, gentlemen," said she, "to leave me with my brother?"
We came here this morning at ten o'clock, and I should think, I should think thish mus' be minnight on the following day." "My watch has run down," said Dicky, "but you are probably quite right, Mrs. Portheris." "It is doubtful," Mrs. Portheris went on, pulling herself together, "whether we are ever found. There are nine hundred miles of Catacombs.
Shorry to be in thish disgrashful state ... thish sad occas'n, gemmem. Very shorry! I thank you!" He turned to leave them, staggering towards the door. "I ain't been a good 'usban' to 'er," he went on, again making the jerking gesture over his shoulder with his thumb. "Thash a fac'. I ain't. But I 'pologise. I'm shorry! Can't say no more'n that, can I? Goo'-ni', gemmem!"
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