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Updated: June 9, 2025
"When I came 'ome the other day I thought p'r'aps I'd let bygones be bygones, and I laid low for a bit to see whether any of you deserved it. I went to sea to get hardened and I got hard. I've fought men that would eat you at a meal. I've 'ad more blows in a week than you've 'ad in a lifetime, you fat-faced land-lubber."
'Now I think of it, said Mr Riderhood, evasively, for he was substituting those words for 'Now I see you so jealous, which was the phrase really in his mind; 'P'r'aps he went and took me down wrong, a purpose, on account o' being sweet upon her! The baseness of communing and intriguing with the fellow who would have set that stain upon her, and upon her brother too, was attained.
My! you know what dat means if it found out?" "Well, Miss Sommers herself was good enough to tell me that it would probably mean flogging to death." "Floggin' to deaf!" echoed Peter. "P'r'aps so wid massa, for he's a kind man; but wid most any oder man it 'ud mean roastin' alibe ober a slow fire! Geo'ge, you's little better'n a dead man!"
From this exchange of pleasantries the talk passed to various subjects the affairs of Jack Bartley and his precious wife, changes in Clerkenwell Close, then to Clem's own circumstances; she threw out hints of brilliant things in store for her. 'Do you come here often? she asked at length. 'Can't say I do. 'Thought p'r'aps you brought Mrs. Pennyloaf. When'll you be here again?
In sitch a enormous tubful o' lobsters, etceterer, it's a wonder we've met at all. An' p'r'aps you've bin a good deal under hatches since you come a-boord?" Molloy said this with a knowing look and a grin. Miles met the remark in a similar spirit. "Yes, Jack, I've been paying tribute to Neptune lately." "You looks like it, Miles, judgin' by the colour o' your jib. Where away now?"
'P'r'aps if you went an' spoke a few words with him he might be persuaded to overlook what's past. 'Yes, yes, said Chris brightly. 'Tell him how much trouble he is givin' his poor mother, who'd be alone but for him. You might dwell on that, my dear, will you? 'I will, of course; and it's true, too. 'It always seems to soften him. If it doesn't, you can hint I'm not very well to-night.
I don't know anything more dejected-looking than to see the back of a shorn head under a pretty hat. I won't allow my hair to fall out, and that's the end of it!" "Well, p'r'aps it won't, after all, miss! We must 'ope for the best," said the barber cheerfully.
"I would give you the world if I had it. Avery, I hate to think we've come home that the honeymoon is over and the old beastly burdens waiting to be shouldered " He laid his forehead against her neck with a gesture that made her fancy he did not wish her to see his face for the moment. "P'r'aps I'm a heartless brute, but I never missed the old chap all the time I was away," he whispered.
P'r'aps yer surprised at hearing me speak o' my own flesh and blood ez if I was talkin' hoss-trade, but you and me is bus'ness men, Mr. Renshaw, and we discusses ez such. We ain't goin' to slosh round and slop over in po'try and sentiment," continued Nott, with a tremulous voice, and a hand that slightly shook on Renshaw's shoulder.
Stiles, briskly, as soon as the other had told his story. "It'll do you a world o' good to be seen on friendly terms with an admiral, and I'll put in a good word for you." Mr. Burton shook his head. "No, she might find out," he said, slowly. "I think that the best thing is for you to go home after dinner, Joe, and just give 'er a look in on the way, p'r'aps.
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