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Why he arst me fer my bloomin' name, same as if I wus a Countess a steepin' art of a moter-kar at the door of Buckingem Peliss. 'What's yer name, girl? says 'e. 'Sarah Geddes, an it please yer capting, says I. 'Then send the bally flowers to Sarah Geddes, says 'e, 'and take precious good care as she gets 'em. Gawd's truth, yer could 'ave knocked me darn with a 'at pin.
'My Gawd, 'e's a cowboy! exclaimed the groom, who was a Cockney, and had seen a Wild West show and recognised the real thing. 'And me thinkin' 'e was goin' to break his precious neck and wastin' my bloomin' sympathy on 'im! Since that first day Mr. Van Torp had not ridden more than a score of times in two years.
He was not sure yet in which of the four divisions he should have to place his new attraction probably the second but he frankly admitted he had never before had any experience with one of her type. Her strange eyes thrilled him: he felt, when she turned the deep slate, melting disks upon him, his heart went "down into his bloomin' boots," as Jimmy Danvers would have described the sensation.
It is a pleasant awakening to a pleasant world as the light morning mist melts away from a bay as "bright and soft and bloomin' blue" as any Kipling ever saw. It seems almost too good to be true, that in a perfect Italian setting we should have stumbled on an Italian gardener, who whistles Verdi as he works.
It was just a modest little sign in a pretty flower-bed: 'Gentlemen, beware!" "I see I must," he said, gallantly. "Thanks! But I mean, beware of the whole bloomin' garden!" Then, picking up a thread that had almost disappeared: "You needn't think you'll ever find out whether I'm right about Mildred's not being an exception by asking her," she said.
"Was there blood on her head?" asked Asia, trying to stem the tide of argument. "Yes, indeed," said the first speaker; "on her head an' on her hands, too. I hanged on the steps when they was puttin' her in the ambalance- wagon, an' she never knowed a bloomin' thing!" "Why didn't you go on with them to the hospital!" asked Lovey Mary. "I don't see how the doctors could get along without you."
He stirred Nobby into wakefulness by the simple expedient of tickling him beneath the chin with a grimy big toe protruding from a rent in an obsolete and far from odourless sock. "'Ere," he said, "got any change." "Any wha'," sleepily, "any, phew, wot a bloomin' niff. Put them blessed feet of your out of the winder. Change, wot of?" "This yere trouser button." "Funny, ain't it, like your face?
The captain managed to screw out a phantom smile. "Here's Old Man Destiny again," said he to Herrick, "but this time I guess he's kicked the door right in." Herrick only shook his head. "O Lord, it's rich!" laughed Huish. "It would really be a scrumptious lark if it 'ad 'appened to somebody else! And what are we to do next? O, my eye! with this bloomin' schooner, too?"
Outside the blizzard still moaned and howled; every now and then, between lulls, screeching gusts of sleet beat upon the windows. The parrot, clinging upside down to the roof of its cage, winked rapidly with Sphinx-like eyes and inclined its head sideways in an intent listening attitude. "Eyah! but th' Force's a bloomin' good home to some of you, all th' same," growled McCullough.
Brandt ain't any too honest a lookin' chap, an' them renegades is hell for women. The scars you wear prove that well enough. She's a rare, sweet, bloomin' lass, too. I never seen her equal. I remember how her eyes flashed when she said she knew I'd avenged Mabel. Jack, they're wonderful eyes; an' that girl, however sweet an' good as she must be, is chain-lightnin' wrapped up in a beautiful form.
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