| [“SAILORMEN ARE NOT GOOD ’ANDS AT SAVING MONEY AS A RULE.”] |
| [“‘I AIN’T HIT A MAN FOR FIVE YEARS,’ ’E SES, STILL DANCING UP AND DOWN.”] |
| [“‘WOT’S THIS FOR?’ SES GINGER.”] |
| [“THEY PUT OLD ISAAC’S CLOTHES UP FOR FIFTEEN SHILLINGS.”] |
| [“OLD ISAAC KEPT ’EM THERE FOR THREE DAYS.”] |
| [“MRS. JOHN BOXER STOOD AT THE DOOR OF THE SHOP WITH HER HANDS CLASPED ON HER APRON.”] |
| [“‘WELL, LOOK ’ERE,’ SAID MR. BOXER, ‘I’VE TOLD YOU MY STORY AND I’VE GOT WITNESSES TO PROVE IT.’”] |
| [“THERE IS SOMETHING FORMING OVER YOU.”] |
| [“AH! WHAT IS THIS? A PIECE OF WRECKAGE WITH A MONKEY CLINGING TO IT?”] |
| [“‘HAVE YOU LEFT ANYTHING INSIDE THAT YOU WANT?’ SHE INQUIRED.”] |
| [“‘YOU VILLAIN!’ CRIED MRS. GIMPSON, VIOLENTLY. ‘I ALWAYS DISTRUSTED YOU.’”] |
| [“‘FATHER WAS SO PLEASED TO SEE YOU BOTH COME IN,’ SHE SAID, SOFTLY.”] |
| [“SHE ASKED ME WHETHER YOU USED A WARMING-PAN.”] |
| [“‘BAH! YOU ARE BACKING OUT OF IT,’ SAID THE IRRITATED MR. TURNBULL.”] |
| [“WITH A WILD SHRIEK, HE SHOT SUDDENLY OVER THE EDGE AND DISAPPEARED.”] |
| [“YOU TAKE MY ADVICE AND GET ’OME AND GET TO BED.”] |
| [“WHEN ANY OF THE THREE QUARRELLED HE USED TO ACT THE PART OF PEACEMAKER.”] |
| [“BILL JUMPED INTO A CAB AND PULLED PETER RUSSET IN ARTER ’IM.”] |
| [“PATTED BILL ON THE BACK, VERY GENTLE.”] |
| [“PICKED OUT THE SOFTEST STAIR ’E COULD FIND.”] |
| [“OLD SAM SAID ’OW SURPRISED HE WAS AT THEM FOR LETTING BILL DO IT.”] |
| [“LAWYER QUINCE.”] |
| [“‘COME DOWN TO HAVE A LOOK AT THE PRISONER?’ INQUIRED THE FARMER.”] |
| [“‘NONE O’ YER IMPUDENCE,’ SAID THE FARMER.”] |
| [“I THOUGHT ALL ALONG LAWYER QUINCE WOULD HAVE THE LAUGH OF YOU.”] |
| [“‘HOW DID YOU GET IN THAT SHED?’ DEMANDED HER PARENT.”] |
| [“HE GOT ’IMSELF VERY MUCH LIKED, ESPECIALLY BY THE OLD LADIES.”] |
| [“MRS. PRINCE WAS SITTING AT ’ER FRONT DOOR NURSING ’ER THREE CATS.”] |
| [“HE TOOK IT ROUND, AND EVERYBODY ’AD A LOOK AT IT.”] |
| [“SHE SAT LISTENING QUITE QUIET AT FUST.”] |
| [“THE DOCTOR FELT ’IS PULSE AND LOOKED AT ’IS TONGUE.”] |
| [“MR. RICHARD CATESBY, SECOND OFFICER OF THE SS. WIZARD, EMERGED FROM THE DOCK-GATES IN HIGH GOOD-HUMOUR.”] |
| [“MR. CATESBY MADE A FEW INQUIRIES.”] |
| [“‘I’M JUST GOING AS FAR AS THE CORNER,’ SAID MRS. TRUEFITT.”] |
| [“I’LL GO AND PUT ON A CLEAN COLLAR.”] |
| [“I’LL LOOK AFTER THAT, MA’AM.”] |
| [“MR. SAMUEL GUNNILL CAME STEALTHILY DOWN THE WINDING STAIRCASE.”] |
| [“THE CONSTABLE WATCHED HIM WITH THE AIR OF A PROPRIETOR.”] |
| [“HE SAW THE DOOR JUST OPENING TO ADMIT THE FORTUNATE HERBERT.”] |
| [“MR. SIMS WATCHED HER TENDERLY AS SHE DREW THE BEER.”] |
| [“FROM THE KITCHEN CAME SOUNDS OF HAMMERING.”] |
| [“‘DON’T CALL ON ME AS A WITNESS, THAT’S ALL,’ CONTINUED MR. DRILL.”] |
| [“‘POACHING,’ SAID THE OLD MAN, ‘AIN’T WOT IT USED TO BE IN THESE ’ERE PARTS.’”] |
| [“‘I SHALL ’AVE ’EM AFORE LONG,’ SES MR. CUTTS.”] |
| [“THREE MEN BURST OUT O’ THE PLANTATION.”] |
| [“BOB PRETTY POINTED WITH ’IS FINGER EXACTLY WHERE ’E THOUGHT IT WAS.”] |
| [“‘YOU OUGHT TO BE MORE CAREFUL,’ SES BOB.”] |
| [“TALKING ABOUT EDDICATION, SAID THE NIGHT-WATCHMAN.”] |
| [“‘GO AND SLEEP SOMEWHERE ELSE, THEN,’ SES DIXON.”] |
| [“YOU’D BETTER GO UPSTAIRS AND PUT ON SOME DECENT CLOTHES.”] |
| [“CHARLIE HAD ’AD AS MUCH AS ’E WANTED AND WAS LYING ON THE SEA-CHEST.”] |
| [“THE WAY SHE ANSWERED HER ’USBAND WAS A PLEASURE TO EVERY MARRIED MAN IN THE BAR.”] |
| [“MR. JOHN BLOWS STOOD LISTENING TO THE FOREMAN WITH AN AIR OF LOFTY DISDAIN.”] |
| [“‘JOE!’ SHOUTED MR. BLOWS. ‘J-O-O-OE!’”] |
| [“‘THEY DRAGGED THE RIVER,’ RESUMED HIS WIFE, ‘AND FOUND THE CAP.’”] |
| [“IN A PITIABLE STATE OF ‘NERVES’ HE SAT AT THE EXTREME END OF A BENCH.”] |
| [“MR. BLOWS, CONSCIOUS OF THE STRENGTH OF HIS POSITION, WALKED UP TO THEM.”] |
| [“DON’T TALK TO ME ABOUT LOVE, BECAUSE I’VE SUFFERED ENOUGH THROUGH IT.”] |
| [“MISS TUCKER.”] |
| [“‘LET GO O’ THAT YOUNG LADY’S ARM,’ HE SES.”] |
| [“BILL LUMM, ’AVING PEELED, STOOD LOOKING ON WHILE GINGER TOOK ’IS THINGS OFF.”] |
| [“THE WAY HE CARRIED ON WHEN THE LANDLADY FRIED THE STEAK SHOWED ’OW UPSET HE WAS.”] |
| [“SEATED AT HIS EASE IN THE WARM TAP-ROOM OF THE CAULIFLOWER.”] |
| [“PUTTING HIS ’AND TO BILL’S MUG, HE TOOK OUT A LIVE FROG.”] |
| [“HE WAS RUNNING ALONG TO BOB PRETTY’S AS FAST AS ’IS LEGS WOULD TAKE ’IM.”] |
| [“AFORE ANYBODY COULD MOVE, HE BROUGHT IT DOWN BANG ON THE FACE O’ THE WATCH.”] |
| [“THE SCREAM ’E GAVE AS GEORGE KETTLE POINTED THE PISTOL AT ’IM WAS AWFUL.”] |
| [“SAT AT THE DOOR OF HIS LODGINGS GAZING IN PLACID CONTENT AT THE SEA.”] |
| [“MR. STILES WAS AFFECTING A STATELINESS OF MANNER WHICH WAS NOT WITHOUT DISTINCTION.”] |
| [“MR. STILES CALLED THE WIDOW A ‘SAUCY LITTLE BAGGAGE.’”] |
| [“‘GOOD RIDDANCE,’ SAID MR. BURTON, SAVAGELY.”] |