BOOK 10
ILLUSTRATIONS
FROM DRAWINGS BY WILL OWEN
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[His friend complied] ["You tell 'er that there's two gentlemen here what have brought her news"] ["Don't you know me, Mary?"] ["If I take you back again," repeated his wife, "are you going to behave?"] |
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
Mr. George Wotton, gently pushing the swing doors of the public bar of the "King's Head" an inch apart, applied an eye to the aperture, in the hope of discovering a moneyed friend. His gaze fell on the only man in the bar a greybeard of sixty whose weather-beaten face and rough clothing spoke of the sea. With a faint sigh he widened the opening and passed through.
"Mornin', Ben," he said, with an attempt at cheerfulness.