Blathers

"Blathers," and got up and hurried out to the place where the fowls were kept, in the yard behind the house.

The Irish Twins Lucy Fitch Perkins 1901

‘What he says is quite correct,’ observed Blathers, nodding his head in a confirmatory way, and playing carelessly with the handcuffs, as if they were a pair of castanets.

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‘Tell your governor that Blathers and Duff is here, will you?’ said the stouter man, smoothing down his hair, and laying a pair of handcuffs on the table.

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‘Well, master,’ said Blathers, entering the room followed by his colleague, and making the door fast, before he said any more.

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‘Why, thank you, miss!’ said Blathers, drawing his coat – sleeve across his mouth; ‘it’s dry work, this sort of duty.

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‘We find it was a town hand,’ said Blathers, continuing his report; ‘for the style of work is first – rate.’

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Messrs. Blathers and Duff looked at Mr. Giles, as he was thus recommended to their notice.

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‘It was a robbery, miss, that hardly anybody would have been down upon,’ said Blathers.

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‘Blathers and Duff, themselves, could make nothing of it.’

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Messrs. Blathers and Duff looked very knowing meanwhile, and occasionally exchanged a nod.

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