[One of the 28th by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookOne of the 28th CHAPTER II 7/42
Men is so unthoughtful, and seems to think as women can stow themselves away anywheres.
I wish you would feel and get your hand in my pocket, young man.
I can't do it nohow, and I ain't sure that I have got my keys with me; and that girl Eliza will be getting at the bottles and a-having men in, and then there will be a nice to-do with the lodgers. Can't you find it? It is in the folds somewhere." "With much difficulty Ralph found the pocket-hole, and thrusting his hand in was able to reassure his neighbor by feeling among a mass of odds and ends a bunch of keys. "That's a comfort," the woman said.
"If one's mind isn't at ease one can't enjoy traveling." "I wish my body was at ease," Ralph said.
"Don't you think you could squeeze them a little on the other side and give me an inch or two more room ?" "I will try," the woman said; "as you seem a civil sort of boy." Whereupon she gave two or three heaves, which relieved Ralph greatly, but involved her in an altercation with her neighbor on the other side, which lasted till the towers of Canterbury came in sight.
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