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"Then what have you done with them?" thundered Mr Pamphlett. "Don't you answer him that," said 'Beida sweetly. "But answer everything else. An' don't you be afraid of him. I ben't." "What d'ee want me to tell?" asked 'Bert, a trifle uneasily. "Everything: 'cept you may leave out 'Biades. He's but a child o' four, an' don't count."
"An't please you, Mistress Clere, black serge for a girdle." "Suit yourself," answered Mistress Clere, giving three pieces of serge, which were lying on the counter, a push towards Rose. "Well, Audrey Wastborowe, what are you standing there for? Ben't you a-going to that Tomkins?" "Well, nay, I don't think I be, if you'll let me have that stuff at elevenpence the ell.
As they were coming out of the house, a big, rough-looking, uncivilised boy came up before them, and called out, "I say ben't you the young doctor up at Stoneborough?" "I am Dr. May's son," said Richard; while Ethel, startled, clung to his arm, in dread of some rudeness.
"Maybe you can keep us away from coming, and maybe you can't," said a voice from the boat. "Why," answered the man on the wharf, "we could keep you away easy enough, but you ben't worth the trouble, and that's the truth." There was a heavy iron bolt lying near the edge of the landing. One of the men upon the wharf slyly thrust it out with the end of his foot.
I let slip in my haste that I don't reckon the thing malignant; and I don't as yet. But it easily may be; and anyhow you're going to have trouble with it." "I've had trouble enough with it already. But, mortal or not, I ben't goin' to stir out o' Polpier nor out o' this house. . . . Doctor, don't you ask it!" he wound up, as with a cry extorted by pain. "Why, man, what are you afraid of?
"After all," said Walter aloud, "the scholar was right there is nothing like the country!" "'Oh, happiness of sweet retired content, To be at once secure and innocent!" "Be them Verses in the Psalms, Sir?" said the Corporal, who was close behind. "Indeed, Sir, and no since they ben't in the Psalms, one has no right to think about 'em at all." "And why, Mr. Critic?"
While Randal was thus innocently engaged, Lenny came up to him, with the firm and measured pace of one who has resolved, cost what it may, to do his duty. And as Lenny, though brave, was not ferocious, so the anger he felt and the suspicions he entertained only exhibited themselves in the following solemn appeal to the offender's sense of propriety, "Ben't you ashamed of yourself?
They mak' munselves up into all manner of disguisements, specially beards. I've seed the Roossians with their beards many a time." "Maybe 'tis witchcraft. Look to mun, putting mun's head under that black bag now! He'm after no good, I'll warrant. If they ben't works of darkness, what be?" "Leastwise he'm no right to go spying here on our quay, and never ax with your leave, or by your leave.
Before she could speak to me, the Captain, called out, "Well, Goody, what have you done with Madame French? is she cooled a little? cause if she ben't, I've just thought of a most excellent device to bring her to." "My dear Evelina," said Mrs.
For instance, I could not help listening to a woman who was pushing her baby in a perambulator down the hill. The baby sat facing her, as bland as a little image of Buddha, and as unresponsive, but she was chaffing it. "Well, you be a funny little gal, ben't ye? Why, you be goin' back'ards into the town! Whoever heared tell o' such a thing goin' to the town back'ards. You be a funny little gal!"
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