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He thought Mass'r Richard would gib him a quarter, mebbe a half-dollar." "Did you think so, also, Harriet?" "Dem's de house perquisites, Miss Phill. Moke has nothin' 't all to do wid de house perquisites." "Moke has been sick, has he not?" "Had de fever, he says." "Is he not one of your classmates? I think I have heard you say he was 'a powerful member' of Uncle Isaac's class."
"Mr Fordyce," he said, "it's no use my jawing to you, because you can knock me flat at that game; and of course old Moke there" this was Master Donkin's unhappy but inevitable designation among his friends "is too thick to argue with a stuffed rabbit; but you had better come down some time and see the place that's all."
The hand of Time had also constructed a "working-men's Métropole" almost opposite Baruch Emanuel's shop, and papered its outside walls with moral pictorial posters, headed, "Where have you been to, Thomas Brown?" "Mike and his moke," and so on. Here, single-bedded cabins could be had as low as fourpence a night.
Simply my suspicions and Clem's chatter. The little moke may have been lying; I can't see that any of them do much else." "The worst of it is, these Southerners are very sensitive about any allusion to the negroes. They would pooh-pooh anything we might say that was not backed by proof. It's a mighty uncomfortable fix to be in, Dick, my boy; though, 'pon my soul, I believe you enjoy it!"
Ragstroar, who was momentarily expecting the return of her son and husband to domestic dulness, after a commercial career out Islington way. They had only got to stable up their moke, whose home was in a backyard about a half a mile off, and then they would seek their Penates, who were no doubt helping to stew something that smelt much nicer than all that filthy paint and putty.
It inspires Corkey, this frequent admonition of the boy. But the boat cavorts dizzily. "Bail, you moke! You black devil! Don't you forget it!" The oars go fast and furious, often in the air, and each time with a volley of oaths. The wood-chopper has seized a man. It is another wood-chopper. There are now four souls in the boat. It leaps less like an athlete.
He would have willingly tossed the moke a nickel for his readiness to assist them; but truth to tell, even such small coin happened to be at a premium with the voyagers just then although they carried a small fortune in yellowbacks, not for worlds would they think of making use of a single bill for their own benefit it was a sacred trust in their eyes.
"Bail, you moke! I'll throw you in!" But Corkey's voice is far from menacing. Corkey is weak. Now he sees the boy's face in dreadful contortions. The lad is trying to speak quickly, and can make no noise at all. He rises and points. He is frantic. "He's crazy!" thinks Corkey, in alarm. "L-l-land!" screams the lad. "That is what it is, unless it's sucking us in."
He-oh-he! Golly, that was a big one!" "Yessah!" "You're Noah. Good name! Fine name! Where's Ararat? He-oh-he!" "Never seed a-a-airy-rat." "Bail, you moke! Don't you give me more o' your lip! Bail, you little devil! Don't you see he-oh Godsakes! Lookout! Bail, all you fellers! Other side! Quick! It's no good! Hang on! All you fellers." The boat is turning. Hands grasp the gunwale.
Besides a warrant f'r a moke was the same as a letther iv inthroduction to th' warden iv th' pinitinchry. Th' on'y thing left f'r th' lawyer to do was to move f'r a new thrile an' afther he'd got two or three he thought ol' things was th' best an' ye do well to lave bad enough alone. He got so sick iv chicken he cudden't live on his fees an' he quit th' law an' wint into journalism.
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