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"Brother always did feel a peculiar interest in him; it was such a strange providence that seemed to cast in his lot among us," said Miss Emily. "As sure as you live, there he is a-coming to the front door," said Miss Roxy. "Dear me," said Miss Emily, "and here I have on this old faded chintz. Just so sure as one puts on any old rag, and thinks nobody will come, company is sure to call."
"It's all right," his friend hailed back. "He's a-coming." "Who's a-coming?" demanded the Boy, thrusting into the throng. "Why, St. George, of course," replied his friend. "He's heard tell of our dragon, and he's comm' on purpose to slay the deadly beast, and free us from his horrid yoke. O my! won't there be a jolly fight!" Here was news indeed!
No, sir; if this 'ere ain't a trap well, may I never! There's cook's cousin at the back door now. He's a keeper, sir, and used to dealing with vicious characters. And he's got his gun, sir. 'Hullo there! shouted Cyril from the church-tower; 'come up and let us out. 'We're a-coming, said Andrew. 'I'm a-going to get a policeman and a gun.
He rang his bell pretty sharply. "Jane," he said to the servant who answered his summons, "send Miss Kane to me at once." "Miss Kane has gone to Martinstown, sir. She drove in in the pony-cart an hour go." "Oh h'm I suppose Mr. Arnold went with her?" "No, sir. Mr. Arnold took a short cut across the fields; he says the carrier is to call for his portmanteau, and he's not a-coming back."
'My family! hiccuped Mr Squeers, raising his eye to the ceiling: 'my daughter, as is at that age when all the sensibilities is a-coming out strong in blow my son as is the young Norval of private life, and the pride and ornament of a doting willage here's a shock for my family! The coat-of-arms of the Squeerses is tore, and their sun is gone down into the ocean wave!
"Royal Theayter, Master Jackanapes, in the old place, but be careful o' them seats, sir; they're rickettier than ever. Two sweets and a ginger-beer under the oak tree, and the Flying Boats is just a-coming along the road." No doubt it was partly because he had already suffered severely in the Flying Boats, that Tony collapsed so quickly in the giddy-go-round.
"We'd a few words o' th' road a-coming leastwise she had, for she got it pretty much to herself and for th' next twelve hours or so she'll not be able to see anybody under a squire." "Is she often like that, Dan?" "Well, it doesn't come more days than seven i' th' week." "Why, you don't mean to say it's so every day?" said Agnes, the younger woman of our trio. Dan shook his head.
What she did know was that she had run her dear fox to earth, and a sense of satisfaction at that feat prevented her just now from counting the cost of the performance. 'Does Mr. Julian come to see her very often? said she. 'O yes he's always a-coming a regular bore to me. 'A regular what? 'Bore! Ah, I forgot, you don't know our town words. However, come along.
Lizzie came and kissed her before she went away. "Oh, Granny, say God bless you!" she cried; "for I'm all shaking and trembling, and I don't know what may come to me to-day." "Lord bless the child!" said Mrs. Bagley, "what's a-coming to her?
Before the days of the safety bicycle an excellent tricycle, called the "omnicycle," was put on the market; and the villagers were greatly excited over one I purchased, of course only for road work, expecting me to use it on my farming rounds; and Mrs. Bell was heard to say, "I knows I shall laugh when I sees the master a-coming round the farm on that thing."
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