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'Not the ghost of one, replied Miss Mowcher. 'We could show her the substance of one, I think? said Steerforth, addressing his eyes to mine. 'Eh, Daisy? 'Yes, indeed, said I. 'Aha? cried the little creature, glancing sharply at my face, and then peeping round at Steerforth's. 'Umph?
"Aha!" quoth the fellow, peering across the blaze, "And who be you? Stand and give a show o' your figurehead!" Obediently I stood with hands outspread to the flame, warming my shivering body at its grateful heat. "Well?" says I. "Why," quoth he, nodding, "You're big enough and wild enough and as likely a cut-throat as another what's the lay?" "The high pad!" says I. "Where away?"
"But please do not be in any hurry about it, for the longer you can find it convenient to remain with us, the better shall we all be pleased. And if you happen to be anything of a sportsman, I think we may venture to promise you some sport quite worth having, and of a rather unique kind? Eh, Professor?" "Aha," agreed the professor, "yes, that is so; those unicorns, for instance."
It was only, however, a hansom at the door of the next house, out of which a very golden-haired young lady was stepping. “Aha,” said Mr Bunker, quite forgetting the indignant rôle he had begun to play; “rather nice! Is this your friend, Mr Duggs?” Mr Duggs gave him one look of his dull eyes, and walked straight for the door.
Almost as in guilty confusion the hunchback hastily closed the sheet containing a huddle of articles, and tied it into a bundle before the artist's chaotic sense of its contents could change into clarity. But instantly a flash of explanation came to him. 'Aha, grandmother, he said, 'I see you too are sending presents to Palestine. The grandmother took snuff uneasily.
He plies his pole to the right, and the log swerves a little to the opposite side the first obstacle is safely passed, though it almost cost him his footing again. "Aha! He's on his guard this time! Maybe he'll do it, after all!" "Well, he said you'd know him again!" Redjacket's party are recovering confidence. The log hurries on, the man balancing carefully with his pole.
They sounded nearer and nearer, and red and white kerchiefs and hats and feathers were visible through the shrubbery. A party of gentlemen and ladies were coming from the castle, across the meadow, directly toward me, and my two ladies among them. I stood up and was about to retire, when the elder perceived me. "Aha, you are just what we want!" she called to me, smiling.
"Aha! my fine fellow," he remarked sneeringly, "so you have made up your mind to go to work at last, have you? That is very well, sare. You must surely have dream last night that I had my eye on you.
Imitate the chorus of the Greek stage, who fill up the intervals between the action by saying what the author would otherwise say in his own person." "That's a good idea, sir, and I have a chorus, and a choregus too, already in my eye." "Aha! you are not so dull a fellow as you would make yourself out to be; and, even if an author did thrust himself forward, what objection is there to that?
Beaufort, rather embarrassed, "there is no question of fortune nothing to go out of the family; and, really, Arthur is so expensive, and, if she were to marry well, I could not give her less than fifteen or twenty thousand pounds." "Aha! I see every man to his taste: here a daughter there a dowry. You are devilish fond of money, Beaufort. Any pleasure in avarice, eh?" Mr.
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