6/12 'But next door to him though.' 'You can't mean Smike ?' cried Miss Squeers, clapping her hands. 'I've got him, hard and fast.' 'Wa'at!' exclaimed John Browdie, pushing away his plate. 'Got that poor--dom'd scoondrel? Give us thee hond, mun; I'm darned but I must shak thee by the hond for thot .-- Gotten him at thy loodgin' ?' 'Yes,' replied Squeers, staggering in his chair under the congratulatory blow on the chest which the stout Yorkshireman dealt him; 'thankee. You mean it kindly, I know, but it hurts rather. |