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Smithers, ignoring the question, "there's a few things I'd like to ask. 'Ow did you get that bruise on your face?" "I I ran into something," answered Dorothy, unwillingly, and taken quite by surprise. "Wot was it," demanded Mrs. Smithers. "Your 'usband's fist?" "No," replied Mrs. Carr, sternly, "it was a piece of furniture." "I've never knowed furniture," observed Mrs.
They're hepiplectic fits, I'm told, an' laws o' me! the way she foams at the mouth! No doubt as they was brought on by her 'usband's etrocious treatment. I understand as he was a man as called hisself a gentleman. He was allus that jealous of the pore innocent thing, mem castin' in her teeth things as I couldn't bring myself not even to 'int at in your presence, Miss Woodstock, mem.
He looked at Lucia. "Yet 'e give nozzing to ze wife. H'm! Señora, tell me.... Does a widow in your country get any of 'er 'usband's money when 'e dies?" Pell, listening intently, drew a sharp breath. He caught the significance of the question. His lips contracted. This damned bandit was capable of anything. Lopez paid no attention to him. He asked for enlightenment from Hardy.
All eyes were upon the lighted window of the bedroom watching for herself, as she soon discovered and this made her doubly safe where she stood behind the press. "She's up there, I tell yer," said one. "Not her! It's a ghost." "Her 'usband's ghost, then."
Well, she was very kind to him bless her for that." Mr. Samuel had gone out to meet his pa. Mrs. Huxter said that the old gentleman was to arrive that day at the Somerset coffee-house, in the Strand; and Fanny confessed that she was in a sad tremor about the meeting. "If his parents cast him off, what are we to do?" she said. "I shall never pardon myself for bringing ruing on my 'usband's 'ead.
"But, as I was sayin'," continued Mrs Marrot, "the Flyin' Dutchman is the name that my 'usband's train goes by, 'cause it is the fastest train in the kingdom so they say.
"Piper's made a clean breast o' the matter to me, and I do think as what it's common justice to admit that my 'usband's evidence at that inquest was worth more than twenty-five pound to you. It wasn't what Piper said; it was what 'e didn't say that mattered, Mrs. Crofton. It's been on 'is mind awful I'll take my Bible oath on that. But 'live and let live, that's my motter.
I want to know what the old bloke's goin' to do with his money, don't I? And I want to know what my beast of a 'usband's got out of him. And I want to know what that feller Kirkwood's goin' to do. He'd ought to marry your sister by rights. 'Not much fear of that now. 'Trust him! He'll stick where there's money.
So I took it from 'im, and blowed it myself three times as he wanted me. To think o' me standin' by my own 'usband's dyin'-bed and blowin' a whistle! "When I'd done, he says, 'That's all right; he knows I'm comin' now. But it'll take a long time to gather all them sheep. "For a bit he was quite still, and both me and Mrs.
"Well, you needn't, 'cause there ain't nothin' to rob, the silver spoons as belonged to my father's mother 'avin' gone down my 'usband's, throat long ago, an' I ain't 'ad money to buy more. I'm a lone pusson as is put on by brutes like you, an' I'll thank you to leave the fence I bought with my own 'ard earned money alone, and git out." Mrs.
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