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Still you have not explained the extraordinary statement you made to me when I came into the room. Why is it that the children have run away?" "I'm a-coming to that, sir; that's, so to speak, the crisis and all brought about by Mrs. Cameron. I said that Miss Polly was kept in her room, and after the first day no one allowed to go near her. Mrs.
"No, Miss Vessy. Nobody could have stepped over me, for my mind has been too awake, if I did sleep a little. Maybe he ain't a-coming, Miss Vessy. Maybe he's ashamed!" "Hush, Virgie," Vesta said, "you are speaking of your master."
And how I remember your a-coming and talking to me across the gate at Polyeuka Hall! 'I remember it very well. 'I didn't know as you were an estated gent in those days. 'I had spent a lot of money when I was young, and the estate, as you call it, was not large enough to bear the loss. So I had to go out and work, and get back what I had squandered. 'And you did it? 'Yes, I did it.
It's my belief, that the blow has given her such an ascendency of blood to the head as she'll never get the better from. She looks like a corpse now. 'Oh, I wish mamma would come! said Fanny, wringing her hands. 'I never was in the room with a dead person before. 'Stay, miss! She's not dead: her eye-lids are quivering, and here's wet tears a-coming down her cheeks. Speak to her, Miss Fanny!
"Are you going to keep the yard open all the evening, Jem?" cried a shrill voice. "Why don't you lock-up and come in to tea?" "There! Hear that!" said Jem, anxiously. "Do go, Mas' Don, or I sha'n't get to the end on it. 'Nuff to make a man talk as you do." "Jem!" "Here, I'm a-coming, arn't I?" he cried, giving the door a thump with his fist. "Don't shout the ware'us down!" "Jem!"
"Of course I do; I always says what I means and means what I says," rejoined Mr Triggs, somewhat snappishly again, as if tired of the long string of puzzling questions with which I was now bothering him, like I used to do my dear old Dad. "By Jingo! I'm blessed if there it ain't a-coming off now, I tell ye!" "Coming off," I repeated. "Where?"
He missed train after train, and when he drove at last into Euston Station and expressed his intention of going north by the night mail the porter shook his head and drew a terrible picture of that arctic region. "Most of the lines are blocked, sir," he said, "or will be. It's a-coming on for more snow." "I can't help that," Maurice said. "I must go. Label my luggage."
Raddle, rubbing his hands, and evincing a slight tendency to brighten up a little. 'Indeed, to tell you the truth, I said, as we was a-coming along in the cabrioily At the recapitulation of the word which awakened so many painful recollections, Mrs. Raddle applied her handkerchief to her eyes again, and uttered a half-suppressed scream; so that Mrs. Bardell frowned upon Mr.
"I am so thankful to see you both safe!" She started to rise, and the old phrase came to her lips: "Oh, my back and oh, my bones!" Then she rose and hobbled across the room. Her bright little, birdlike eyes, that had never yet known spectacles, had seen something up the Cheslow road. "Who's this a-coming? For the land's sake, what recklessness! Is that Jabez and his mules, Ruthie?
As a consequence he had fallen into the hands of the police, and would be brought before the magistrate the following morning, when, being unable to pay the fine, he would have to "do time" just as a strike was a-coming on, too, and he was expecting good pay from the Strike Committee. "And what is to happen to me and the baby while my 'usband is in prison?" she said.
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