Fortunately,
the brutes are not venomous, but that beggar's teeth scratched Mr.
Bulky's boots up pretty badly, I must sy."
When they rose from the table, Miss Carmichael went up to the lawyer and
said: "Please forgive me for punishing myself between Mr. Bangs and Mr.
Bigglethorpe. I sigh for good English." The lawyer answered, all
unwittingly, of course, in his worst brogue: "Miss Carrmoikle, it's my
frind Wilks I'll be aafther gitten' to shtarrt a noight school to tayche
me to shpake Inglish in aal its purity." To this there could be but one
response: "Go away, you shameful, shameless, bad man!" It pleased the
lawyer better than a more elegant and complimentary remark.
CHAPTER XIII.
Walk to the P.O.--Harding's Portrait--The Encampment
Besieged--Wilkinson Wounded--Serlizer and Other Prisoners--No
Underground Passage Found--Bangs and Guard Remain--The Constable's
New Prisoners--Wilkinson a Hero--The Constable and Maguffin--Cards.
There was no room for twenty persons in two waggons, yet twenty proposed
to go, seventeen to the seat of war, and three to the post-office.
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