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Skilled Assistance Ship's Company, Part 9. - W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
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Title: Skilled Assistance
Ship's Company, Part 9.
Author: W.W. Jacobs
Release Date: January 1, 2004 [EBook #10569]
Language: English
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BOOK 9
BOOK 9
ILLUSTRATIONS
FROM DRAWINGS BY WILL OWEN
SKILLED ASSISTANCE
The night-watchman, who had left his seat on the jetty to answer the gate-bell, came back with disgust written on a countenance only too well designed to express it.
"If she's been up 'ere once in the last week to, know whether the Silvia is up she's been four or five times, he growled.
He's forty- seven if he's a day; 'is left leg is shorter than 'is right, and he talks with a stutter. When she's with 'im you'd think as butter wouldn't melt in 'er mouth; but the way she talked to me just now you'd think I was paid a-purpose to wait on her. I asked 'er at last wot she thought I was here for, and she said she didn't know, and nobody else neither. And afore she went off she told the potman from the 'Albion,' wot was listening, that I was known all over Wapping as the Sleeping Beauty.
"She ain't the fust I've 'ad words with, not by a lot. They're all the same; they all start in a nice, kind, soapy sort o' way, and, as soon as they don't get wot they
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