Liza of Lambeth by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
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'Na, I can't.' 'Why not?' 'I ain't got--I ain't got the ooftish.' 'I mean, won't yer come with me?' 'Na, Tom, thank yer; I can't do thet neither.' 'Yer might as well, Liza; it wouldn't 'urt yer.' 'Na, it wouldn't be right like; I can't come aht with yer, and then mean nothin'! It would be doin' yer aht of an outing.' 'I don't see why,' he said, very crestfallen. 'I can't go on keepin' company with you--after what I said last night.' 'I shan't enjoy it a bit without you, Liza.' 'You git somebody else, Tom. You'll do withaht me all right.' She nodded to him, and walked up the street to the house of her friend Sally. Having arrived in front of it, she put her hands to her mouth in trumpet form, and shouted: ''I! 'I! 'I! Sally!' |
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