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Updated: June 8, 2025
And you look on while your own niece is treated in this way. Why, a costermonger's wife wouldn't disgrace herself so. No wonder your 'usband run away from you!" "Oh, this low, vulgar, horrid girl!" cried her aunt in a revulsion of feeling. "How she can be any relative of mine I'm sure I don't know." "Ugh! you nasty, ungrateful young woman, you!" chimed in Mrs. Bubb.
He were more of a readin' man, my 'usband was papers and books and all sorts o' things more'n was good for 'im, I often used to say. You can see a lot on 'em on that little shelf. If it hadn't been that they kep' 'im out o' the Nag's Head I'd ha' burned some on 'em, that I would, and I often told 'im so. He knowed a wonderful lot about the stars, my 'usband did.
She lowered her voice a little, but Chester heard her next words very clearly. "It is not a proper place for our pretty friend, but ah! she loves play now! The Polish lady, Madame Wolsky, was also a great lover of baccarat; but now she 'as gone away. And so, when Mrs. Bailey come 'ere, like this, at night, my 'usband and I we are what you English people call old-fashioned folk we come, too.
"Tyke a woman's part, eih? I know you, you bloody toff! You ... you think you're a bloody 'ero, eih, p'tectin' a woman from 'er 'usband!" He pushed Henry aside, almost falling on the pavement as he did so. "I've a goo' mind to break your bloody neck for you, see, bloody toff, interferin' ... 'usband an' wife. See? Thash what I'll do!..." He came again at Henry, but still he did not strike.
"What a woman must expect in life is good 'ard knocks and blows," she said "unless she can get a man to look arter her what's not of the general kicking spirit. Take my advice, dearie! You marry Mr. Robin! as good a boy as ever breathed he'll be a kind fond 'usband to ye, and arter all that's what a woman thrives best on kindness an' you've 'ad it all your life up to now "
An' we goes into t' drawn-room wheer her 'usband was a-settin'. They meks a gurt fuss ovver t' dog an' I has a bottle o' aale, an' he gave me a handful o' cigars. Soa I coomed away, but t' awd lass sings out "Oh, Mister Soldier, please coom again and bring that prettee dog." I didn't let on to t' Colonel's Laady about Mrs.
"'Her name, ses the skipper, 'her name is Jane Maria Elizabeth Muffit, and she lives over at Rotherhithe. "'She's very likely married already, I ses. "'Her 'usband died ten years ago, ses the skipper; 'passed away in 'is sleep. Overlaid, I should say. "He sat there smoking, and I sat there thinking.
They are ze ginger-beer who pretend to be ze champagne. Mais mot I am ze real champagne. I make things seem jolly that are not jolly at all ze woman who sit next you at dinner ze food ze bills who wait for you at 'ome life. If you take too much of me you 'ave ze 'eadache. Enfin, ce n'est pas ma faute. I 'ave so much to give. I 'ave so much life. One life one country one 'usband is not enough.
"Why, certainly, Lady Patterdale; I shall be only too delighted. Is that the reason of the war paint?" She laughed a jolly, unaffected laugh. "My 'usband always likes me to wear this when we're took. Thinks it looks better in a 'ospital." As Vane stepped through the door with her he caught a fleeting glimpse of officers disappearing rapidly in all directions.
They tried to put me outside once, the two of 'em, but they on'y did it at last by telling me that somebody 'ad gone off and left a pot o' beer standing on the pavement. They was both of 'em fairly strong young chaps with a lot of bounce in 'em, and she used to say to her 'usband wot fine young fellers they was, and wot a pity it was he wasn't like 'em.
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