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The Guardian Angel Ship's Company, Part 7. - W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
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Title: The Guardian Angel
Ship's Company, Part 7.
Author: W.W. Jacobs
Release Date: January 1, 2004 [EBook #10567]
Language: English
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GUARDIAN ANGEL ***
Produced by David Widger
BOOK 7
ILLUSTRATIONS
FROM DRAWINGS BY WILL OWEN
THE GUARDIAN ANGEL
The night-watchman shook his head. I never met any of these phil— philantherpists, as you call 'em,
he said, decidedly. "If I 'ad they wouldn't 'ave got away from me in a hurry, I can tell you. I don't say I don't believe in 'em; I only say I never met any of 'em. If people do you a kindness it's generally because they want to get something out of you; same as a man once—a perfick stranger—wot stood me eight 'arf-pints becos I reminded 'im of his dead brother, and then borrered five bob off of me.
"O' course, there must be some kind-'arted people in the world—all men who get married must 'ave a soft spot somewhere, if it's only in the 'ead—but they don't often give things away. Kind-'artedness is often only another name for artfulness, same as Sam Small's kindness to Ginger Dick and Peter Russet.
"It started with a row. They was just back from a v'y'ge and 'ad taken a nice room together in Wapping, and for the fust day or two, wot with 'aving plenty o' money to spend and nothing to do, they was like three brothers. Then, in a little, old-fashioned public-'ouse down Poplar way, one night they fell out