If you like to call where I am now, I shall have the pleasure of introducing you to somebody that will give you the good hiding you deserve for being a coward and a brute.
"Miss SPARKES" Gammon laughed over this for half an hour.

He showed it to Mrs.Bubb, who was again on the old terms with him, and Mrs.Bubb wanted to exhibit it to Mrs.Cheeseman.
"No, don't do that," he interposed gently.

"We'll keep it between ourselves." "Why ?" "Oh, I don't know.

The girl can't help herself; she was born that way, you know." "I only hope she won't pay some rough to follow you at night and bash you," said Mrs.Bubb warningly.
"I don't think that.

No, no; Polly's bark is worse than her bite any day." On the evening of that day, about ten o'clock, he chanced to be in Oxford Street, and as he turned southward it occurred to him that he would so far act upon Polly's invitation as to walk down the Avenue and glance at the house where she lived.