[Bleak House by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookBleak House CHAPTER XIX 18/27
And she ses to me 'do it' and I dun it and she giv me a sov'ring and hooked it.
And I an't had much of the sov'ring neither," says Jo, with dirty tears, "fur I had to pay five bob, down in Tom-all-Alone's, afore they'd square it fur to give me change, and then a young man he thieved another five while I was asleep and another boy he thieved ninepence and the landlord he stood drains round with a lot more on it." "You don't expect anybody to believe this, about the lady and the sovereign, do you ?" says the constable, eyeing him aside with ineffable disdain. "I don't know as I do, sir," replies Jo.
"I don't expect nothink at all, sir, much, but that's the true hist'ry on it." "You see what he is!" the constable observes to the audience.
"Well, Mr.Snagsby, if I don't lock him up this time, will you engage for his moving on ?" "No!" cries Mrs.Snagsby from the stairs. "My little woman!" pleads her husband.
"Constable, I have no doubt he'll move on.
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