[The Town Traveller by George Gissing]@TWC D-Link bookThe Town Traveller CHAPTER II 11/11
"'Please explain absence.
Hope nothing wrong.' How kind of them, ain't it! Yesterday they chucked me; now they're polite.
Reply-paid too; very considerate. They shall have their reply." He laid the blank form on the table and wrote upon it in pencil, every letter beautifully shaped in a first-rate commercial hand: "Go to Bath and get your heads shaved." "You ain't a-goin' to send that!" exclaimed Mrs.Bubb, when he had held the message to her for perusal. "It'll do them good.
They're like Polly--want taking down a peg." Moggie ran off with the paper to the waiting boy, and Mr.Gammon laughed for five minutes uproariously. "Would you like a little bull-pup, Mrs.Bubb? he asked at length. "Not me, Mr.Gammon.
I've enough pups of my own, thank you all the same.".
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