“ Gibbs, in a faint voice, as she tottered to a chair. "Oh,'ow cruel of you to tell me my pore Joe was alive! Oh, 'ow could you?""Lor' lumme," said the incensed Mr. Kidd, pushing Mr. Gibbs forward. "Here he is. Same as you saw 'im last, except for 'is whiskers. Don't make that sobbing noise; people'll be coming in.""Oh! Oh! Oh! Take 'im away," cried Mrs. Gibbs. "Go and play your tricks with somebody else's broken 'art.""But it's your husband," said Mr. Brown."Take 'im away," wailed Mrs. Gibbs.Mr. Kidd, grinding his teeth, tried to think. "'Ave you got any marks on your body, Joe?" ”
W. W. Jacobs
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Quotes from Friends in Need (W. W. Jacobs)
“ Gibbs, impressively. "Not slavery, mind yer, but work.""It's rather difficult to distinguish," said Mr. Brown."'Specially for some people," added Mr. Kidd."Go on," said Mr. Gibbs, gloomily. "Go on. Stand a man 'arf a pint, and then go and hurt 'is feelings. Twice yesterday I wondered to myself what it would feel like to make a hole in the water.""Lots o' chaps do do it," said Mr. Brown, musingly."And leave their wives and families to starve," said Mr. Gibbs, icily."Very often the wife is better off," said his friend. "It's one mouth less for her to feed. ”
“ Gibbs showed them only too plainly where they were drifting."You'll 'ave to get a bed this side o' the river somewhere," said Mr. Brown, slowly. "Coffee-shop or something; and a smart, active man wot keeps his eyes open can always pick up a little money."Mr. Gibbs laughed."And mind," said Mr. Kidd, furiously, in reply to the laugh, "anything we lend you is to be paid back out of your half when you get it. And, wot's more, you don't get a ha'penny till you've come into a barber's shop and 'ad them whiskers off. We don't want no accidents." ”
