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Watts did not consider that arising at four, and cooking and sweeping and tidying up the cabin, and quarreling with the Bishop as "a petty old bundle of botheration" and storming around at the children all by sun-up this was not work at all. It was merely an appetizer. The children were aroused by her this morning with more severity than usual.
I'll just square my arms acrost my chest and I'll say, 'Your Excellency, I'll say, 'you can't do it, and you shan't do it because it isn't right. But chut! botheration to all such bobbery! Look here man alive, look here! She's not forgetting the lil one, you see," and, making a proud sweep of the hand, Pete pointed to the scarlet hood.
Now, as if all this were not enough, there was added to it the old, evergreen botheration about money. Thus far, Ocock had nursed his mining investments for him with a fatherly care. He himself had been free as a bird from responsibility. Every now and again he would drop in at the office, just to make sure the lawyer was on the alert; and each time he came home cheerful with confidence.
Edward's darker nature struggled for ascendancy within him. It was this man's violence at Fairly which had sickened him, and irritated him against Dahlia, and instigated him, as he remembered well, more than Mrs. Lovell's witcheries, to the abhorrent scheme to be quit of her, and rid of all botheration, at any cost. "You're in some conspiracy to do her mischief, all of you," he cried.
She listened intently, but apparently it was only Tom; he came upstairs singing a refrain with which just then she quite agreed: "LAW, law Rhymes very well with jaw, If you're fond of litigation, And sweet procrastination, Latin and botheration, I advise you to go to law." "Halloo!" he exclaimed. "So you did get home all right? I like your way of acting Casabianca!
This being detected by a superior, in the brisk person of a son of the Emerald Isle, who stood well six feet in his boots, a 'soucer' with the broad front of his knuckle bones, between the colored gentleman's two eyes, was the rejoinder a most striking remonstrance, that laid him measuring the floor. Troth! an' it's myself 'd stop yer botheration.
"Good boy," rejoined his companion, throwing his arm about the Eastern lad's neck; "we'll come out all right. I'm confident of it." "Unless the real Con Divver, Jim Hickey and Ted Rafter happen to show up," put in the practical Walt, with a half-grin. "Botheration take you, Walt," exclaimed Ralph, in comic petulance; "you're the original laddie with a bucket of cold water.
"Och, botheration! but the Ridskins have got it bad luck to the spalpeens! and sorra a one of thim can play a tune, or I would not mind it so much," answered Mike. "But you must try to get him back," observed Quambo; "if dey not play on him, dey not want him." "I'm mighty afraid it's burned, though," said Mike, with a sorrowful countenance.
"Botheration!" said Captain Carter, and fined himself sixpence. Then he went back to the parlour, and the preacher started afresh. Twice again before supper came Uncle Billy with news of the cutter's movements, and the second time there could be no mistaking them, for she was dodging back and forth and lying foxy around Cuddan Point.
"Excuse me, sir; I think I have taken enough; do, please, either take me back to my vessel, or where you are going to. This is no place for me!" said Manuel. "Sure, what signifies; don't be talking your botheration here; a nigger musn't sauce a white man. Come, there's no use backing out; you must take a glass of Swizer's lager beer," said Dunn.
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