[Mary Anerley by R. D. Blackmore]@TWC D-Link bookMary Anerley CHAPTER XXV 11/22
Let us go and see the capital, and that good gentleman, as you have picked up a bit of news for.' So we shaped a course for York, on board the schooner Mary Anne, and from Goole in a barge as far as this here bridge; and here we are, high and dry, your honor.
I was half a mind to bring in my boy Bob; but he saith, 'Not without the old chap axes;' and being such a noisy one, I took him at his word; though he hath found out what there was to find--not me." "How noble a thing is parental love!" cried the general factor, in his hard, short way, which made many people trust him, because it was unpleasant; "and filial duty of unfathomable grog! Worthy Joseph, let your narrative proceed." "They big words is beyond me, Sir.
What use is any man to talk over a chap's head ?" "Then, dash your eyes, go on, Joe.
Can you understand that, now ?" "Yes, Sir, I can, and I likes a thing put sensible.
If the gentlemen would always speak like that, there need be no difference atween us. Well, it was all along of all that money-bag of Bob's that he and I found out anything.
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