and he resumed his seat what hurt can it do � none none but i cannot bear it � it s my belief you hate the sight of the very river � i� i do not like it father as if it wasn t your living as if it wasn t meat and drink to you i at these latter words the girl again and for a moment paused in her to turn faint it escaped his attention for he was glancing over the stem at something the boat had in tow how can you be so to your best friend the very fire that warmed you when you were a was picked out of the river alongside the coal the very basket that you slept in the tide washed ashore the very that i put it upon to make a cradle of it i cut out of a piece of wood drifted from some ship or another took her right hand from the it held and touched her lips with it and for a moment held it out lovingly towards him then without speaking she resumed her as another boat of similar appearance though in rather better came out from a dark place and dropped alongside in luck again said a man with a who her and who was alone i know d you was in luck again by your wake as you come down ah replied the other so you re out are you yes there was now a tender yellow moonlight on the river and the new comer keeping half his boat s length of the other boat looked hard at its track i says to myself he went on directly you in view tender s and in luck again by george if he ain t i it is don t fi t yourself � i didn t touch him this was in answer to a quick impatient movement on the part of the speaker at the same time his on that side and laying his hand on the of s boat and holding to it he s had touches enough not to want no more as well as i make tn m out been a knocking about with a pretty many tides ain t he such is my out of luck ways you see he must have passed me when he went up last time for i was on the below bridge here i a most think you re like the and scent em out he spoke in a dropped voice and with more than one glance at who had pulled on her hood again both men then looked with a weird interest at the e of s boat does it us shall i take him aboard no said the other in so surly a tone that the man after a blank stare acknowledged it with the retort b mutual � am t been eating nothing as has with yon have yon why yes i have said i have been too of that word i am no er of yours since when was yon no of mine since yon was accused of a accused of a live man said with great indignation and what if i had been accused of a dead man you couldn t do it � couldn t you no has a dead man any use for money is it possible for a dead man to have money what world does a dead man belong to world what world does money belong to this world how can money be a corpse s can a corpse own it want it spend it claim it miss it don t try to go the rights and wrongs of things in that way it s worthy of the spirit that a live man i ll tell you what it is no you won t tell you what it is you ve got off with a short time of it for putting your hand in the pocket of a sailor a live sailor make the most of it and think yourself lucky but don t think after that to come over me with your we h ve worked together in time past but we work together no more in time present nor yet future go cast off i if you to get rid of me this way if i don t get rid of you this way i ll try another and chop you over the fingers with the or take a pick at your head with the boat hook cast off full you pull home since you won t let your pull shot ahead and the other boat fell s father himself into the easy attitude of one who had asserted the high and taken an position slowly lighted a pipe and smoked and took a survey of what he had in tow what he had in tow itself at him sometimes in an awful manner when the boat was checked and sometimes seemed to try to itself away though for the most part it followed a might have fancied that the passing over it were dreadfully l e faint changes of expression on a but was no and had no fancies chapter n the han mr and mrs were new people in a new house in a new quarter of london t about ihe was and span new all their furniture was new all their friends were new all their servants were new their plate was new their carriage was new their harness was new their horses our mutual were new their pictures were new they themselves were new they were as newly married as was with their having a new baby and if they had set up a great grandfather he would have come home in from the without a scratch upon him french polished to the of his head for in the from the hall chairs with the new coat of arms to the 