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Mauleverer keeps one himself, and leaves one with me. Oh, botheration, there's the Grey carriage! Well, you go and receive them, and I'll try to pacify Mrs. Rossitur, and then come down." Neatly kept were these account books of the F. U. E. E,, and sure enough for every month were entered the sums for coals, wood, and potatoes, tallying exactly with Mrs. Rossitur's account, and each month Mr.
You see the judge he wrote to me a spell back, a orderin of me to have the house got reddy for him comin home. And he menshunned, permiskuously like, as you was not lookin that well as you orter. But Hannah and me, we thort as how is was all along o that botheration law business as you was upset on your helth. And as how you'd get better when the Court riz.
Decidedly a fellow like Nevil would be missed by him! These English, huddling more and more in flocks, turning to lumps, getting to be cut in a pattern and marked by a label how they bark and snap to rend an obnoxious original! One may chafe at the botheration everlastingly raised by the fellow; but if our England is to keep her place she must have him, and many of him. Have him? He's gone!
Bellamy remembered that he had forgotten his cheque-book and his money, and it was of no use to go to Thingleby without them. "Botheration! I must go back, my dear." "Leave me here, Mr. Bellamy; you won't be long. Let me get out, though, and just turn the mare aside off the road on to the grass against the gate; she will be quite quiet." "Had you not better sit still?
"Ah! botheration to the bunch of yees a drap of old whiskey, that 'd make the delight cum f'nent. Have ye ne'er a drap among the whole o' yees?" Receiving an answer in the negative, he turned about with a Kilkenny, "It don't signify," and toddled for the door, which he left open, to await Tommy's return.
The Boots had another pup for sale one of the same litter. "But I want something for mother, and the others and Honoria." "Botheration! I'd forgotten Honoria, and now the money's gone! Never mind; she can have my pup." "Oh!" said Taffy ruefully. "Then she won't think much of my present." "Yes, she will. Suppose you buy a collar for him you can get one for five shillings."
You see through me. Anybody could. I can't talk of my botheration without betraying myself. What good am I among you sharp fellows in England?" Language of this kind, by virtue of its unintelligibility, set Mr. Herbert Fellingham's acute speculations at work.
I plucked up courage, made my bow, asked leave, and got it; and the evening found my friend the lieutenant, and myself, after a ride of three hours, during which I, for one, had my bottom sheathing grievously rubbed, and a considerable botheration at crossing the Ferry at Passage, safe in our inn at Cork.
The family, the ladies especially, laughed; the Peterses laughed; the Simpkinsons laughed; Barney Maguire cried "Botheration!" and Ma'mselle Pauline, "Mon Dieu!"
"N-n-o, not exactly bad news; but a very bad bother," said Gray, sitting down in the big arm-chair and wiping the perspiration from his heated face. "What is it, Reuben?" pursued Hannah. "Where's Ishmael?" inquired Gray, without attempting to answer her question. "Working in the garden, of course. But why can't you tell me what's the matter?" "Botheration is the matter, Hannah, my dear.
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