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She controlled the nervous start of her body, and replied quietly "I think I have. A very old place." "Ah! Old? I believe ye! 'Twas old in the time o' good Queen Bess an' the same fam'ly 'as 'ad it these three 'undred years a fam'ly o' the name o' Jocelyn. Ay, if ye could a' got service wi' Farmer Jocelyn ye'd a' bin in luck's way!
"Hinvaision?" retorted the ghost, snapping her fingers in his face with such effect that his chin dropped until Terwilliger began to fear it might never resume its normal position. "Hinvaision? H'I'd like to know 'oo's the hinvaider. H'I've occupied these 'ere 'alls for hover two 'undred years."
'Op whispers to me that Antonio was a Number One spy when 'e was in commission, and a French lootenant when 'e was paid off, so I navigated at three 'undred and ninety six revolutions to the galley, never 'avin' kicked a lootenant up to date. I may as well say that I did not manoeuvre against 'im as a Frenchman, because I like Frenchmen, but stric'ly on 'is rank an' ratin' in 'is own navy.
You'll never see the things I've seen, never. Not if you live to be a 'undred... Well, as I was saying, that's how the Famine and Riotin' began. Then there was strikes and Socialism, things I never did 'old with, worse and worse. There was fightin' and shootin' down, and burnin' and plundering. They broke up the banks up in London and got the gold, but they couldn't make food out of gold.
They replied with politeness that, judging from the number of applications received, they must be the million in search of domestics. Returning home from the Bureau, I found Elizabeth studying a time-table. 'I see it's a 'undred and eighty-three miles to Manchester, she commented, 'an' the fare's 15s. 5 1/2d.
As to the ingen, a nasty, wheezin’, gaspin’, puffin’, bustin’ monster always out o’ breath, with a shiny green and gold back like an onpleasant beetle; as to the ingen as is always a pourin’ out red ’ot coals at night an’ black smoke in the day, the sensiblest thing it does, in my opinion, is ven there’s somethin’ in the vay, it sets up that ’ere frightful scream vich seems to say, ‘Now ’ere’s two ’undred an’ forty passengers in the werry greatest extremity o’ danger, an’ ’ere’s their two ’undred an’ forty screams in vun!’”
Now, I reelly sent for you to-day to tell you I mean to better the supplies this trip Yes, honest Injun!" for the Andromeda's skipper had clutched the cigar out of his mouth with the expression of a man who vows to heaven that he cannot believe his ears "I'm goin' to bung in an extry 'undred to-morrow in the way of stores. Funny, isn't it?" "Funny! It's a meracle!"
You've got to go so fast for one thing I never was a sprinter bah!" he snorted "there's nothing in it. Life isn't a 'undred yards race. You miss all the flowers on the way at that pace. And what's the prize?" He glanced down contemptuously at his feet. "Worn-out boots. Yer boots wear out that's all." He looked round at the children, smiling wonderfully.
So the commanding officer paced his tent, and composed fresh messages to the Maharajah, while Lieutenant Pink wondered in noble disgust whether the expedition was going to end in moonshine after all, and Thomas Jones, sergeant, remarked hourly to his fellow-privates, 'The 17th 'aint come two 'undred miles for this kind of a joke. The bloomin' Maharajer 'ull think we've got a funk on.
Sam laughed the sort of laugh a pal 'ad once give him a black eye for. "Twenty pounds!" he ses; "twenty pounds! 'Ave you gorn out of your mind, or wot? I'll give you a couple of quid for it." "Well, it's all right, captin," ses the man, "there's no 'arm done. I'll try somebody else or p'r'aps there'll be a big reward for it. I don't believe it was bought for a 'undred pounds."
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