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But I've got to catch a train in twenty minutes, and I want to know what you're going to do? Am I worth three thousand, or am I not?" "You're worth a great deal more to me. You've got an education I 'aven't got; you've got brains; you've got tact, when you choose to use it. You've got expert knowledge, and I can't carry on my business without that. I'm not unreasonable.
Some said it come from eatin' rats and some from eatin' nothin'. Some say the Asiatics brought it from some 'I place, Thibet, I think, where it never did nobody much 'arm. All I know is it come after the Famine. And the Famine come after the Penic and the Penic come after the War." Teddy thought. "What made the Purple Death?" he asked. "'Aven't I tole you!" "But why did they 'ave a Penic?"
Blenkiron, the blacksmith's wife, who had arranged to provide tea for Rowcliffe every Wednesday in the Surgery. "Wall, Mrs. Blenkiron," she said, "yo' 'aven't got to mak' tae for yore doctor now?" "Naw. I 'aven't," said Mrs. Blenkiron. "And it's sexpence clane gone out o' me packet av'ry week." Mrs. Blenkiron was a distant cousin of the Greatorexes.
In this moment of excitement it struck neither John nor Mary Anne nor, indeed, herself that her manner, with its brutality, and its poorly feigned surprise, was the most revealing element in the situation. "What's all this about yer money?" she said, staring John in the face. "What do I know about yer money? 'Ow dare yer say such things? I 'aven't anythin' to do with it, an' never 'ad."
'Yer can't 'ave spent it all tain't possible an yer ain't chucked it out o' winder. Yer've got it somewhere 'idden, an I'll get it out o' you if I die for 't! Bessie surveyed him steadily. She had not even flinched at the mention of the sovereigns. 'What yer 'aven't got, yer can't give, she said. 'I don know nothin about it, an I've tole yer. There's plenty o' bad people in the world beside me.
'Awkes, he's not going to give 'er the chawnce to turn 'im down." "Ach, Gott!" said Gretel. I will stake my head that she wrung her hands. "Women is funny," said Hawkes. While I 'aven't seen much of the Countess during my present engagement, I will say this: she has a lot more sense than people give 'er credit for.
"Nor mine, sir," he made answer. "Though I must say you gentlemen 'aven't been a bit what I imagined detectives to be. When you first come down, you know, I spotted something different about you, and " "Ought to be on the Force yourself!" supplemented Cleek. "And not such a bad callin' neither!" returned Borkins with a grin.
"What I mean to say is this," he continued, by way of explanation, "the chaps Burton and the rest of 'em seems a bit puzzled that 'e 'aven't come off aboard to sleep to-night; but so far as I can make out, they thinks 'e's stayin' ashore with you, chummin' up with you, in a manner of speakin', and tryin' to get to wind'ard of you.
We're due for the brig for Gawd knows 'ow long; our reppitation's gone; we've been spat on by a by a Arab, and we 'aven't hit 'im back; an' we've lost the pup. We've gone an' lost the pup! Gawd! There ain't no more good in nothin'!" Which shows no more than that Joe Byng in his sorrow overlooked a circumstance or two.
I was filled to my moist eyes with the almost sacred beauty of sense and association that clad the landscape. "Does 'unger produce 'alluciations?" said Pyecroft in a whisper. "Because I've just seen a sacred ibis walkin' arm in arm with a British cock- pheasant." "What are you panickin' at?" said Hinchcliffe. "I've been seein' zebra for the last two minutes, but I 'aven't complained."
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