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"And you were just getting to be such a nice friend," she mourned. "I was getting so I liked you. There never was anybody pleasanter than you while we were coming up from New York. Why, you weren't like a person one was married to, at all!" "More like a friend nor a 'usband," quoted Francis unexpectedly. Marjorie looked at him in surprise.
In three months Henery Walker 'adn't seen the color of 'is money once, and, wot was worse still, he took to giving Henery's things away. Mrs. Walker 'ad been complaining for some time of 'ow bad the hens had been laying, and one morning at breakfast-time she told her 'usband that, besides missing eggs, two of 'er best hens 'ad been stolen in the night. "They wasn't stolen," ses old Mr.
I was telling Mrs. ... oh, dear, what is her name?... Mrs. ... Roberson about it, and she said that's what her 'usband used to suffer from, and ... he took...." Sally ignored the rest of the speech. Her mother rambled on; and Sally looked at the clock. She'd get to Hornsey Road about six. That would be time enough.
Piper, when I say that I really will do all I can for him. But it's not easy now to hear of good jobs, and Piper doesn't seem easy to suit." "You wouldn't care to take my 'usband on again yourself, Modam?" Again there followed that curious pause which somehow filled Enid with a vague fear. "I wish I could," she said at last, "but I can't afford it, Mrs. Piper.
'You look pale, said one of a group to her one day. 'You're overworkin' yerself, you are, said another. 'Married life don't agree with Liza, thet's wot it is, added a third. ''Oo d'yer think yer gettin' at? I ain't married, an' never like ter be, she answered. 'Liza 'as all the pleasures of a 'usband an' none of the trouble. 'Bli'me if I know wot yer mean! said Liza.
And then we heard a stamping, and down he came raging and cursing most dreadful, swearing he had been robbed of something that was worth millions. And then he just dropped down in the passage, and we thought he was dead. We got him up to his room, and put him on his bed, and I just sat there and waited, while my 'usband he went for the doctor.
My friend's 'usband was one o' them sort wanted to stop the 'ole thing with the weddin' cake ordered, an' lodgings taken at Margate for the 'oneymoon. But she 'eld 'im to it stuck to 'im like grim death until' e'd gone through with it. An' now 'e often ses 'e never regrets it for a minnit. Marion looked up hopefully. 'Perhaps you're right, Elizabeth.
Ford as was, then Simmons now, ain't it?" He said this with a furtive leer that Simmons neither liked nor understood. "No," said Simmons; "she ain't in now." "You ain't her 'usband, are ye?" "Yus." The man took his pipe from his mouth and grinned silently and long. "Blimy," he said at length, "you look like the sort o' bloke she'd like," and with that he grinned again.
It was in New Zealand that Madame Wachner had learnt to speak English: "My 'usband, 'e was in business there," she said vaguely. "And you?" she asked at last, fixing her piercing eyes on the pretty Englishwoman, and allowing them to travel down till they rested on the milky row of perfectly-matched pearls.
"'Well, I ses, 'ardly knowing wot to make of 'er, 'she ought to be up this tide; but there's no reckoning on wot an old washtub with a engine like a sewing-machine inside 'er will do. "'Oh, indeed! she ses, leaving off smiling very sudden. 'Oh, indeed! My husband might 'ave something to say about that. "'Your 'usband? I ses. "'Captain Pratt, she ses, drawing 'erself up. 'I'm Mrs. Pratt.
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