United States or Guatemala ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
In the first place, I don't take my meals in the servants' hall, but in the steward's room; and it's very seldom I hold any communication whatever with under-servants. It don't do, Mr. Eversleigh you may think me 'aughty; but it don't do. If upper-servants want to be respected by under-servants, they must first respect themselves." "Well, well, Millard; I know I can rely upon your discretion.
"How do you know my name?" he asked. "I never saw you before." "I'm the new office-boy," said the urchin, "wishin' to be respectable and leave street-'awking, which ain't what it was. M'name's Tray, an' I've seen you afore, mister. I 'elped to pull you out from them wheels with the 'aughty gent as guv me a bob fur doin' it." "Oh, so you helped," said Paul, smiling. "Well, here is another shilling.
He was a kind fellow; he made or purchased toys for the children; he brought them apples and brandy-balls; he brought a mask and frightened them with it, and caused a smile upon the face of pale Fanny. He called Mrs. Bolton Mrs. B., and was very intimate, familiar, and facetious with that lady, quite different from that "aughty, artless beast," as Mrs.
"I may get my information, and I may act on that information, and I may find that information valuble as any body else may. A poor servant may have a bit of luck as well as a gentleman, mayn't he? Don't you be putting on your aughty looks, sir, and comin' the aristocrat over me. That's all gammon with me. I'm an Englishman, I am, and as good as you."
An' Miss Maud's a-goin' to marry a real gent" Matilda glanced at the photograph "I allays said he wos a gent, bein' so 'aughty like, and wearing evening dress at meals, late." "Was he ever down here, this gentleman?" "He's been comin' and goin' fur months, and Miss Maud loves 'im somethin' cruel. But they'll marry now an' be 'appy." "I suppose your ladies sometimes went to see this gent in town?"
"Not very much; and Tom said I was the first gentleman he had ever known come from Oxford you must pay for a remark like that. He described us as 'bloomin' 'aughty, and 'not enough brass to buy a moke. Do you know that you are playing for the 'Varsity on Saturday against Blackheath? I want to go up to town, so I shall come and see you play."
"And, bein' so near, I 'appened to glance in at the winder, and there, sure enough, I see 'er as you might say, Eve in the gardin. And a fine figure of a Eve she be, and 'andsome wi' it 't ain't often as you see a maid the likes o' 'er, so proud and 'aughty like." "Well?"
He was a kind fellow; he made or purchased toys for the children; he brought them apples and brandy balls; he brought a mask and frightened them with it, and caused a smile upon the face of pale Fanny. He called Mrs. Bolton Mrs. B., and was very intimate, familiar, and facetious with that lady, quite different from that "aughty artless beast," as Mrs.
Tarbarrels and bonfires were lighted along the coastline of the four seas on the summits of the Hill of Howth, Three Rock Mountain, Sugarloaf, Bray Head, the mountains of Mourne, the Galtees, the Ox and Donegal and Sperrin peaks, the Nagles and the Bograghs, the Connemara hills, the reeks of M Gillicuddy, Slieve Aughty, Slieve Bernagh and Slieve Bloom.
"A tall young lady not much to boast of for looks, but with hair as black as your hat and a face as white as cream. Very 'aughty too an' arbitrary, and seemed to have my Jim like quite at her command. So from where I stood I couldn't help hearing everything that passed. My Jim, he gives her the very letter as laid in your pocket that night, as you as you was taken so poorly, you know.
Word Of The Day