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"I wonder what his friend Smith thought of it?" said Wallop; "he must have been shocked." "When you fellows have done," I said, who had felt bound to submit to all this with the best grace I could, "I'll get on with my work." "What a joker the fellow is!" said Doubleday. "One would think he was always at his work." "I want to work now," I said. "I do indeed."
"Look here," said he, catching Jack by the arm and drawing him away from his adversary, "we aren't used to that here, I can tell you! Go to your desk! Do you hear? There's the governor coming up! A nice row you'll get us into with your temper! Come, you Wallop, up you get, I say you beast! I'm jolly glad the young 'un walked into you. Serves you right! Look alive, or you'll be nobbled!"
It was all very well to dissemble his love but I should feel doubtful of any man that handed me such a wallop as that until the matter had been fully explained." "What I want to know, Pringle, is, how the deuce you got up here so slick?" said Nueces. "Oh, that's easy! I can run a mile in nothing flat." "Oh that's it? You hid in the water pen?" "Under the troughs. Bright idea of yours, them fires!
I heard it was your off-leg and your spine and your skull that were smashed. That's what made me so surprised to see you. Never mind, I'm glad to see you, young 'un, for there's a ticklish bit of figure work to do. None of the others would look at it, so I've saved it up for you, my boy." "And I'm ready for it," said I. Crow and Wallop greeted me rather more shyly.
"It was a pretty good wallop, considering that you couldn't see his face very well in the dark. I always said that you had more spunk to the square inch than any other chap I know. But over here, Suds, as you know, it's different. You can't knock down an officer and get away with it. So, you just sit down at your desk and write a little note, saying that you regret your hastiness.
What we'd better do it t' tie t' th' Colonel, an' when we've helped him an' his friends t' wallop th' other fellows they'll be so much obliged to us that they'll let us bag all th' treasure we want an' clear out. An' that reminds me, Professor we haven't heard anything about any treasure so far. Just ask th' Colonel if there really is one.
To-day I've got to go to Mudie's to change a book, then I've to get a scarf-pin mended for Crow, and buy a pair of flannel drawers for Wallop, and go and offer two shillings for a five-shilling mariner's compass at the stores for Doubleday. I shall have to get my grub when I can to-day, I expect."
"Have a care, Miss Kate," he said, in a warning voice, while he gazed in the face of the excited girl with a look of undisguised admiration. "It don't do to wallop a skittish beast like that." "Never fear, Jacques," she replied, bending forward to pat her charger's arching neck; "see, he is becoming quite gentle again."
Not even a broken arm or a dangerous fever will wipe off old scores. Wallop rather enjoyed going through the catalogue of my debts. "Then there's Tucker, the pastrycook, wants half-a-sov. at the very least, and Weeden, the tobacconist, a florin for mild cigarettes, and " "Yes, yes," I said; "I know all about it, and I'm going to pay them all."
If I don't find a roarin' good fire and the rest to match, just where I've said they're to be when I come back from where I've said I'm a-goin' " "You'll wallop 'im a fair treat, I lays you will," said the stoker, revealing a discolored set of teeth in a gratified smile. "We'll bide by wot the boy does then," he added. "Knowin' that wot 'e gits from either of us, he'll earn.
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