[The Attache by Thomas Chandler Haliburton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Attache CHAPTER VIII 11/18
Here's three sovereigns for the bar-maid; she don't ought to have nothin', for she never got so innocent a kiss afore, in all her born days I know, for I didn't mean no harm, and she never got so good a one afore nother, that's a fact; but then _I_ ought to pay, I do suppose, because I hadn't ought to treat a lady that way; it was onhansum', that's fact; and besides, it tante right to give the galls a taste for such things.
They come fast enough in the nateral way, do kisses, without inokilatin' folks for 'em.
And here's a sovereign for the scoldin' and siscerarin' you gave the maid, that spilt the coals and that's an eend of the matter, and I don't want no receipt.' "Well, he bowed and walked off, without sayin' of a word." Here Mr.Hopewell joined us, and we descended to the street, to commence our perambulation of the city; but it had begun to rain, and we were compelled to defer it until the next day. "Well, it ain't much matter, Squire," said Mr.Slick: "ain't that Liverpool, I see out of the winder? Well, then I've been to Liverpool. Book me for London.
So I have seen Liverpool at last, eh! or, as Rufus said, I have felt it too, for this wet day reminds me of the rest of his story. "In about a half hour arter Rufus raced off to the Falls, back he comes as hard as he could tear, a-puffing and a blowin' like a sizeable grampus.
You never seed such a figure as he was, he was wet through and through, and the dry dust stickin' to his clothes, made him look like a dog, that had jumped into the water, and then took a roll in the road to dry hisself; he was a caution to look at, that's a fact. "'Well,' sais I, 'Stranger, did you see the Falls ?' "'Yes,' sais he, 'I have see'd 'em and felt 'em too; them's very wet Falls, that's a fact.
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