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He had loved me, but had always feared that I would end by disgracing the family being hanged or something but the "work'us," that was beyond him; he had not thought it would come to that. And so on through pages of horseplay; his relief on ascertaining the truth and learning his mistake, his regret at not finding me at home, closing with a dinner invitation.
How do you add to the general fund?" asked Sir Richard, becoming interested in the household management of Poverty. "Well, I char a bit an' wash a bit, sir, when I'm well enough which ain't often. An' sometimes I lights the Jews' fires for 'em, an' clean up their 'earths on Saturdays w'ich is their Sundays, sir. But Hetty works like a horse. It's she as keeps us from the work'us, sir.
By what appeared, or rather by what did not appear, he had applied to some rich relation, and the rich relation had said to him: 'Much obliged! try the work'us. Then he wished to make use of his Greek, and Latin, and mathematics.
There's your tea; take it away to that box, and drink it there, and make haste, for they'll want you to mind the shop. D'ye hear? 'D'ye hear, Work'us? said Noah Claypole. 'Lor, Noah! said Charlotte, 'what a rum creature you are! Why don't you let the boy alone? 'Let him alone! said Noah. 'Why everybody lets him alone enough, for the matter of that.
Some folks thought he was silly, and Mrs. Hamm, riding by in a buggy, on the road below, said to Mr. Hamm, "There's that good-for-nothing Frank Clark again, hollerin' like a wild Injun with all those children." "Yes, Maria," agreed her husband. "I'd send him to the work'us if I was on the Township Committee." But the Hamms, like many other people, were very stupid. Was the Toyman worth while?
Marylebone Work'us fer me an' the missis an' the kids. My keb gone, my best hoss killed, an' a pore old crock left, worth abart enough to pay the week's stablin'. I see a lot, I do." The man was telling the truth. He was blear-eyed with misery. Brett looked at Hume, and the latter rang a bell. He asked the waiter for a pen and ink.
Well, a farm hand is a useful thing, but what is a man to do with one who has an injured spine and half his ribs smashed. Farmer Foster shook his head and scratched his chin as he listened to the doctor's report. "He can't get better?" "No." "Then we had better move him." "Where to?" "To the work'us hospital. He came from there just this time eleven years. It'll be like going home to him."
Angel and I ran forward to protect The Seraph if need be from the consequences of his hardy act; but the old man was smiling placidly. "That trout," he said, "is so gleeful to get away from his captivity as I be to escape from the work'us." "Oh, did you run away from the workhouse?" we cried, in chorus, gathering around him, "Have you run far?" And we looked at his broken boots.
'Yer don't know who I am, I suppose, Work'us? said the charity-boy, in continuation: descending from the top of the post, meanwhile, with edifying gravity. 'No, sir, rejoined Oliver. 'I'm Mister Noah Claypole, said the charity-boy, 'and you're under me. Take down the shutters, yer idle young ruffian! With this, Mr.
Polly, at her first place, and with an unbounded admiration and regard for the lodger who, if he did make a sight of work splashing about in his bath, was always free with his shillings and full of his fun, looked at the young man distrustfully. "What you got to do wi' th' work'us?" Polly asked resentfully, and seized the bread under one arm and the remains of the haddock under the other.
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