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P'r'aps you could give me a little advice, Bill. "I did. I talked to that man for an hour and a'arf, and when I 'ad finished he said he didn't want that kind of advice at all. Wot 'e wanted was for me to tell 'im 'ow to get rid of Miss Lamb and marry Mrs. Plimmer without anybody being offended or having their feelings hurt. "Mrs. Plimmer came down to the ship the very next evening.
"Pretend it's a snake. Can't you see?" "No." "There's Eely Burr and old Dicksee coming down the lane, and they'll want to come too. Hist! don't look. Lie down; p'r'aps they haven't seen us, and they'll go by." "But it's all stinging nettles," I said. "What of that? Here, this way; they won't sting if you go down hard."
"P'r'aps," he said, after a pause, in which he had vainly tried to discover how his daughter wished him to answer, "p'r'aps; he's older and more sot. There ain't much difference, though. In five or six years Seth'll be a heap stronger than the schoolmaster; but now," he added quickly, reading his daughter's face, "he ain't man enough. He must fill out first."
He was satisfied that his visitor, like many others of humble position, was succumbing to his good fortune. "I wanted to see ye, Mr. Ford," he began, taking an unproffered chair and depositing his hat after some hesitation outside the door, "in regard to what I onct told ye about my wife in Mizzouri. P'r'aps you disremember?" "I remember," returned the master resignedly.
"Look here," began the soldier; "just because I asked you for a pipe o' baccy " "No offence," said the other, quickly. "I mean if you earned it?" The soldier nodded and took his pipe from his mouth. "Gardening and windows?" he hazarded, with a shrug of his shoulders. The boatswain shook his head. "Scrubbing, p'r'aps?" said the soldier, with a sigh of resignation.
"I'll wait till yer done." "P'r'aps you would like to come?" said the missionary to the captain. "Well, I I may as well as not," said David with some hesitation. "Come along then, lads," and the genial sailor-missionary led the way to the capacious hold, which had been swept clean, and some dozens of fish-boxes set up on end in rows.
"P'r'aps I ought to have told her first," he murmured, craning his neck to look in the glass at the back of the bar. "I'll go and put it right for you," said his friend. "You stay here and smoke your pipe." He stepped out briskly, but his pace slackened as he drew near the house. "I I came to see you about your husband," he faltered, as Mrs. Simpson opened the door and stood regarding him.
"Now, sir, if you go for to interrupt me like that I'll 'ave to charge a bob for this here valk; I couldn't stand it for sixpence." "Come, Slidder, don't be greedy." "Vell, sir, if you got as many kicks as I do, and as few ha'pence, p'r'aps you'd be greedy too." "Perhaps I should, my boy," said I, in a gentle tone. "But come, I will give you an extra sixpence if we get along well.
"You look splendid, ma!" said Gladys, as she watched their departure. "Splendid!" "I don't feel splendid," sighed Mrs. Jobson to her husband. "These 'ere boots feel red-'ot." "Your usual size," said Mr. Jobson, looking across the road. "And the clothes seem just a teeny-weeny bit tight, p'r'aps," continued his wife. Mr. Jobson regarded her critically.
"Well, come, dear me," cried Polly, when she saw this, and, remembering her mother's advice, to think first before she spoke the words that might work mischief, she brightened up. "P'r'aps some chance will come to us to show dear Mrs. Blodgett that we are sorry for 'em, if we can't send 'em things." "P'r'aps," said Ben. But he still looked gloomy.
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