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At this point Nicky-Nan fairly lost command of his temper. "So you're one wi' the rest, eh? All in one blasted conspiracy to turn me to doors! One comes threatenin', t'other comes carneyin', but all endin' in the same lidden. 'Your health ben't the best, Nanjivell: let me recommend a change of air. 'Nanjivell, you're a fine upstandin' fellow, an' young for your age.
That's what it is, sir. That's why the stocks ben't respected; they has not had an example yet, we wants an example." "On my word I believe that's very true; and we'll clap in the first idle fellow you catch in anything wrong, and keep him there for two hours at least." "With the biggest pleasure, your honour, that's what it is." And Mr.
There is no speaking to them, they are above correction, and if a master should attempt it, he may expect to be handsomely drubbed by the creature he feeds and harbors, or perhaps an action brought against him for it. It is become a common saying, If my servant ben't a thief, if he be but honest, I can bear with other things. And indeed it is very rare in London to meet with an honest servant."
Cheat you, Sir! if I ben't reveng'd on this She-Counsellor of the Patching and Painting, this Letter-in of Midnight Lovers, this Receiver of Bribes for stol'n Pleasures; may I be condemn'd never to make love to any thing of higher Quality. Sir Tim. Sham. No, Sir, I'll have no more to do with frail Woman, in this Case; I have a surer way to do your Business. Sir Tim. Sharp. It is, Sir. Sir Tim.
And back there I'm going this very night, and why? you ask. I ben't one of your taty-diggin' slowheads I ben't. I've broke out of prison three times, and now " He nodded at the company, whose faces by this time he couldn't very well pick out of a heap "do any of 'ee know a maid there called Selina Johns? Because if so I warn 'ee of her. 'Why? says you.
Never did a little damsel of the nursery array her doll with more delighted looks, and gaze upon her handiwork with more self-satisfaction, than did old Tronchon survey me, as, with the aid of a little gum, he decorated my lip with a stiff line of his iron red beard. "Diantre!" cried he, in ecstasy, "if thou ben't something like a man, after all.
"There is no mistake," asked Danvers, halting; "an Italian gentleman named Cesarini lodges here?" "Yes, sir, poor cretur I sent for you to come to him for says I to my boy, says I " "Whom do you take me for?" "Why, la, sir, you be's the doctor, ben't you?"
They clambered into this and were soon jogging at an easy pace over the fragrant bordered road which wandered with apparent aimlessness between the green fields. The driver turned half way in his seat with easy familiarity as they started up the first long hill. "Ben't ye afeered to go inter th' house?" he inquired. "Afraid of what?" demanded Donaldson. "Spooks."
"But surely the farmers want work here as well as elsewhere?" "'Deed, and there ben't much farming work here, most o' the parish be all wild ground loike." "The poor have a right of common, I suppose," said Frank, surveying a large assortment of vagabond birds and quadrupeds. "Yes; neighbour Timmins keeps his geese on the common, and some has a cow, and them be neighbour Jowlas's pigs.
There ben't nothing but gentle cows in the home medder. But I didn't think that you knew, you secretive person! I dare say you planned the whole thing in advance, in order to take advantage of my fright!" "Never! I am incapable of such an unnecessary subterfuge! Besides, Kitty, I could not have made an accomplice of a cow, you know."
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