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They went off as though they'd left a load o' care be'ind 'em, and arter tying the dog up to a crane I went on with my work. They 'adn't told me wot the game was, but, from one or two things they'd let drop, I'd got a pretty good idea. The dog 'owled a bit at fust, but he quieted down arter a bit.
Monsieur Georges 'e die. As for me I go 'ome to ze old Folies Bergeres, and for six months I wait a leetle ugly nobody with long thin legs dancing with ten other ugly leetle nobodies with all sorts of legs be'ind La Jolleta. You don't remember 'er, 'hein! Ah, c'est vieux jeu ca and you are all too young, Mesdames et Messieurs. She was ze passion of your grandpapas. God knows why.
He jerked her nose round with the savage energy of a chauffeur in the wrong; he seemed to impart his own fury to the car. She snorted and screamed as he backed her and drove her forward and backed her again. And again he shouted to me. "You get in, sir, if you don't want to be left be'ind." On the high road past the station he took the wrong turn.
It was an inspiration, for next day, when he came in, she smiled at him. "I didn't know you could draw," she said. "I was an art-student in Paris for two years." "I showed that drawing you left be'ind you last night to the manageress and she WAS struck with it. Was it meant to be me?" "It was," said Philip. When she went for his tea, one of the other girls came up to him.
She apparently could live without food or fire, but the rent must be paid. "An' I do get a bit be'ind sometimes," she confessed apologetically, "an' then it's a trouble to get straight." Her cottage was one of a short row, and she did odd jobs for the women who were her neighbours.
Saunders began to climb the narrow stairs, with John behind him. But the smith's small eyes had a puzzled look. 'There's somethin rum, he said to himself. 'Ow did she spend it all? 'As she been carryin on with someone be'ind Isaac's back, or is Isaac in it too? It's one or t'other. Meanwhile Bessie, left behind, was consumed by a passionate effort of memory.
"Oh! don't tell her don't tell her," cried the boy, whose eyes sparkled with mischievous glee. "It'll be sich fun! If I 'ad on'y the chance to stand be'ind a door an' see the meetin' I wouldn't exchange it no not for a feed of pork sassengers an' suet pud'n. I must go an' tell this to Tim Lumpy. It'll bust 'im that's my on'y fear, but I must tell 'im wotever be the consikences."
Brimberly, "if you'd been forced by stern dooty to sit be'ind Young Har in a fast automobile as I 'ave, you'd know what I mean. Reckless? Speed? Well, there!" and Mr. Brimberly lifted hands and eyes and shook his head until his whiskers vibrated with horror. "Then you're pretty sure," said Mr.
"His Viscountess!" repeated Barnabas, staring, "do you mean that the Viscount is actually married?" "'T ain't my fault, sir no fear, it ain't. 'E went and done it be'ind my back s'morning as ever was, 'e did. I didn't know nothin' about it till it was too late, 'e done it unbeknownst to me, sir, 'e did, an' she done it too a' course, an' the Yurl went an' 'elped 'em to do it, 'e did.
Look at that chap! 'E 'ad all Germany be'ind 'im, and what 'as 'e made of it? Smeshin' and blunderin' and destroyin', and there 'e 'is! Jest a mess of blood and boots and things! Jest an 'orrid splash! Prince Karl Albert! And all the men 'e led and the ships 'e 'ad, the airships, and the dragon-fliers all scattered like a paper-chase between this 'ole and Germany.
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