[The Astonishing History of Troy Town by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch]@TWC D-Link bookThe Astonishing History of Troy Town CHAPTER XV 14/15
I say, me darlint, I'd be lettin' that young fool down aisier than the pote.
He's a poor little snob, but he's more like a man than Moggridge." "He's a bad ass, is Moggridge," assented the Honourable Frederic. "Come, Nellie, we've a day's work before us, remember." A friend of mine, the son of steady-going Nihilist parents, and therefore an authority, assures me that the Honourable Frederic cannot have been a conspirator for the simple reason that he shaved his chin regularly.
Be this as it may, to-night he smiled mysteriously as he rose, and winked at his wife in a most plebeian way.
I regret to say that both smile and wink were returned. [Illustration: Winked.
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