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In some ways I should almost say you were inspired. A slight want of airiness in the double-shuffle, perhaps " "Could you do't better?" asked Zeb, sulkily. "That isn't the fair way to treat criticism, my friend; but yes oh, yes, certainly I could do it better in your shoes." "Then try, i' my shoes." And Zeb kicked them off.
Then hadst thou been fain to lie smarting at the 'Tete d'Or' a month or so; yon skittish lass had nursed thee tenderly, and all had been well. Blade I had in hand to do't, but remembering how thou hatest pain, though it be but a scratch, my craven heart it failed me at the pinch." And Denys wore a look of humble apology for his lack of virtuous resolution when the path of duty lay so clear.
But a minute later she was back, having done no more than set her pail down inside the bedroom door. "Oh, sure, Mrs. Beamish, and I can't do't!" she cried shrilly. "It's jus' like Andy Soakes's shop ... when they've bin quarterin' a sheep." "I'll QUARTER you, you lazy trollop, you!" cried Mrs. Beamish, rising to her aching legs again; and her day-old anxiety found vent in a hearty burst of temper.
"My lord was awful' set upon coming," said Malcolm apologetically; "and when my lord taks a thing into his heid, he'll aye do't, ye ken."
The farmer threw an objectionable shrewdness into his query, that caused Richard to compress his mouth and glance high. Farmer Blaize was positive 'twas a lie. "Hum! Ye still hold to't you fired the rick?" he asked. "The blame is mine!" quoth Richard, with the loftiness of a patriot of old Rome. "Na, na!" the straightforward Briton put him aside. "Ye did't, or ye didn't do't. Did ye do't, or no?"
Do you know anything of this Egyptian?" "What Egyptian? Is't a lassie wi' rowans in her hair?" "The same. Have you seen her?" "That I have. There's nothing agin her, is there? Whatever it is, I'll uphaud she didna do't, for a simpler, franker-spoken crittur couldna be." "Never mind what I want her for. When did you see her?"
'To-morrow be hanged! you'll do it to-day, bury-me-wick, but you shall; I'm wearying to see you make a picture, and I'll fetch your conundrums out o' your drawer, for do't you shall. It was all vain my remonstrating. She vowed that by crossing the stepping-stones close by she could, by a short cut, reach the house, and return with my pencils and block-book in a quarter of an hour.
Tell him from me you come, the wrong'd Diana; Tell him you have an Interest in my Heart, Equal to that which I have made in yours. Friend. I'll do't; I will not ask your Reason, but obey. Swear e'er I go, that when I have perform'd it, You'll render me Possession of your Heart. Dia. By all the Vows that Heaven ties Hearts together with, I'll be entirely yours. Friend.
Ay, if there were no more in't than Exercise; if a Man cou'd take a Breathing without breathing a Vein but, Sham, this Wounds, and Blood, sounds terribly in my Ears; but since thou say'st 'tis nothing, prithee do thou meet Bellmour in my stead; thou art a poor Dog, and 'tis no matter if the World were well rid of thee. Sham. I wou'd do't with all my Soul but your Honour, Sir Sir Tim. My Honour!
"Sal, it was the lassie picked me up; ay, and she picked up a horn at the same time." "'Blaw on that, she cried, 'and alarm the town. But, sheriff, I didna do't. Na, I had ower muckle respect for the law." "In other words," said Halliwell, "you also bolted, and left the gypsy to blow the horn herself." "I dinna deny but what I made my feet my friend, but it wasna her that blew the horn.
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