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When I 'eerd all them shots poppin' off every few minutes, up by the Casino, I used to think 'twas the suicides a shooting theirselves all over the place, for before I left 'ome, I 'ad a warnin' from my young man that was the kind of goin's on they 'ad here. But now I know it's only the pigeon shooters, tryin' for prizes, and I wouldn't eat a pigeon pie in this 'otel, not if 'twas ever so!"
'I'm sure we must earn our living somehow. This is an 'otel, isn't it? and Mosk's a pop'lar character, ain't he? I'm sure it's hard enough to make ends meet as it is; we owe rent for half a year and can't pay and won't pay, wailed Mrs Mosk, 'unless my 'usband comes 'ome on Skinflint. 'Comes home on Skinflint, woman, what do you mean? 'Skinflint's a 'orse, mum, as Mosk 'ave put his shirt on.
"I took up a bag for him to the 'otel." With that we parted. Presently after my friend overtook and passed me on a hired steed which seemed to scorn its cavalier; and I was left in the dust of his passage, a prey to whirling thoughts. For I now stood, or seemed to stand, on the immediate threshold of these mysteries.
'I was workin' along of Owen for Pushem and Sloggem about two year ago, and I seen 'im do a job down at the Royal 'Otel the smokin'-room ceilin' it was and I can tell you it looked a bloody treat! 'I've heard tell of it, said Harlow. 'There's no doubt Owen knows 'is work, remarked Easton, 'although 'e is a bit orf is onion about Socialism.
'Git to bed, yer hulkin' fools! sez she, 'or ye may change my 'Otel for the Sheriff's. An' they all knuckles down afore 'er as if they was childer gettin' spanked by their mother. Ah, she'd 'a made a grand wife for a man! 'E wouldn't 'ave 'ad no chance to make a pig of hisself if she'd been anywheres round!" "Perhaps she won't take me in!" suggested Helmsley.
But if with you I travel, make arrangimento, you und'stan', look for traina 'otel, biglietto, bagaglia then I am so little you laugh. Two 'undred franc the month!" and Alessandro indicated with every muscle of his body the amazement he expected us to feel. The Senator turned to the ladies of his family. "Now that I think of it," he said, "travels in Italy are never written without a courier.
"You do the talking," he said. "Well, it's like this," said Mr. Dean. Then he laid his proposition before the Englishman, who puffed away on his cigar and listened in silence. "Sorry, very sorry, gentlemen," he began, "but I 'ave just arranged with a party to 'old that site for a summer 'otel or a fruit farm, or some such a thing, don't you know.
"Ye call me my man, ye little cigarette-suckin' silk-hatted Johnny orderin' private cabins! W'ot ye think this is a floatin' 'otel?" Madden bit his lip to keep from smiling at the odd play of anger and surprise on Smith's long expressive face. "No harm meant, Mr. " began the American soothingly. "Malone Mate Malone!" stormed the angry officer by way of introduction.
"To the best 'otel you know of, cabby, that's not too dear. An' if you've bin gifted with compassion, cabby, don't overcharge your fare." Accepting the direction, and exercising his discretion as well as his compassion, that intelligent cabby drove, strange to say, straight to an hotel styled the "Officers' House," which is an offshoot of Miss Robinson's Institute, and stands close beside it!
'Come pull yourself together, my boy. 'The front winder it was, at the 'otel, said the boy. At this point Parkins was in favour of sending the boy home, but the Colonel refused; he wanted to get to the bottom of it, he said; it was most dangerous to give a boy such a fright as this one had had, and if it turned out that people had been playing jokes, they should suffer for it in some way.
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