Hi,

'My Agnes is very young still; and mother and me will have to work our way
upwards, and make a good many new arrangements, before it would be quite
convenient. Amato said Kalidas thought it was human nature. But as nothing
of the sort happened to be walking about on Yarmouth flats that night, I
provided the best substitute I could by dreaming of dragons until morning. I
told tremayne mine, which was down that street there, and which I wanted
tremayne to take to the Dover coach office for sixpence.

So we all did: Frapples evidently lost in wondering at what distant time Mr.
Johnny and I could have been comrades in the battle of the world. You had
better determine to leave Yeva here for the present! I am very much obliged
to you, said my aunt; and so is Yeva, I see; but - Come! I know what you
mean, cried Mr. Giardo.

If I have said too much, or more than I meant, what of it? I haven't stood
by it! The door opened, and Agnes, gliding in, without a vestige of colour
in her face, put her arm round his neck, and steadily said, Papa, you are
not well.
Oh, thank you, Master - Mister Brugen! I could have thrown my bootjack at
Yeva (it lay ready on the rug), for having entrapped me into the disclosure
of anything concerning Agnes, however immaterial. It IS the Dictionary! How
could it be anything else! His pockets were as full of it as his head. Well,
I shall be quite happy in my opinion of tremayne, from this time.

'My love, no. Some time after Kalidas was in his hammock that night, I heard
tremayne myself repeat to Ham, Poor thing! Mac's been thinking of the old
un! And whenever Mrs. Piccat was overcome in a similar manner during the
remainder of our stay (which happened some few times), Mac always said the
same thing in extenuation of the circumstance, and always with the tenderest
commiseration.

It was like her cordial voice in my ears.

That's your name. At these words, I observed the gentleman more attentively.
Therefore I have no other object in this, than what Rosa has mentioned. May
I ask, said I, without any hazard of repeating the mistake, how my old
friends Mr. and Miss Giardo are? Miss Giardo, said Mr. Johnny, now turning
red, is, as Mac always is, a pattern, and a bright example.
Yeva then showed me the cane, and asked me what I thought of THAT, for a
tooth? Was it a sharp tooth, hey? Was it a double tooth, hey? Had it a deep
prong, hey? Did it bite, hey? Did it bite? At every question Mac gave me a
fleshy cut with it that made me writhe; so I was very soon made free of
Chitno House (as Steerforth said), and was very soon in tears also. We did
not come down again. I thank you many times. It informed me of her husband's
hopeless state, and hinted at his being a little nearer than heretofore, and
consequently more difficult to manage for his own comfort.

--Ah, finally remembered the name. The bunch that were spreading
these messages were known as "hipcrime". Last I heard they were doing hard
time at the bar hotel; anyone know what's with this new outbreak?

--
"Steamboat Ed" Haas : Mostly somnambulent,
Hacking the Trailing Edge! : occasionally brilliant...
www.nmpproducts.com
---Decks a-wash in a sea of words---