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"If you get shut," replied his companion in the same low tone, "it won't matter much; but see here shut your eyes." Without further remark the man took a handful of wet earth and smeared it over Oliver's face, then, clapping his own "sou'-wester" on his head, he said, with a soft chuckle, "There, your own mother wouldn't knaw 'ee!"
"I'll put 'ee home," he told her: "best have this on; 'tes a bit cool on cliff." "Oh, but " began Phoebe. She had no hopes, such as she had cherished, against all reason, upon getting Ishmael's note that morning, of a moonlit walk home with him, but something in her shrank from the walk undertaken with Archelaus. He wrapped the shawl about her as she spoke.
"Thinkin' 'bout it," replied the smith, with a good-humoured smile. "Why, if I didn't knaw that the old wuman's alive," said another, "I'd say he was agoin' to get married again!" "Never fear," exclaimed a third, "Maggot's far too 'cute a cunger to be caught twice." "I say, my dear man," asked another, "have 'ee bin takin' a waalk 'pon the clifts lately?"
The line got tangled in the growing stuff, and I, so quick as an otter, pounced on him, and had him on the bank afore 'ee could say 'scat, and there he lies breathing his last, and blessing me no doubt for relieving him in his shameful state." "I fink he's weally my twout," said The Seraph. "I caught him first you see."
"So here are eighteen-odd guineas," quoth uncle Jervas, "a paltry and most inadequate sum, perhaps, but these should last you a few days with care, or at least until, wearying of hardship, you steal back into the silken lap of luxury." "And look 'ee, Perry lad," added uncle George, clapping me on the shoulder and eyeing me a little anxiously, "come back soon, boy soon, d'ye see "
"Have you dug up the potatoes and other roots?" "Yes, without a drop o' rain, thank God. But I was coming to tell 'ee of something else which is quite different from what we have lately had in the family. I am sent by the rich gentleman at the Woman, that we used to call the landlord, to tell 'ee that Mrs.
He did not approve of this reserve in Thomas, just after he had confided all that story to him too. "Well, I hardly know," said Thomas slowly. "I am, and I ain't." A dull sick feeling of bitter disappointment filling his heart as he saw that beyond the two men who had sprung out at once, no one else was appearing. "I was going to tell 'ee about it, only the train corned in.
When next I was able to raise my head they were round Grimm at the wheel, engaged, as far as I could discover from their gestures, in an argument about our course and the time, for Grimm looked at his watch by the light of a hand-lantern. We were heading north, and I knew by the swell that we must be near the Accumer Ee, the gap between Langeoog and Baltrum. Were we going out to open sea?
It was Ninian who suggested that Widger should harness the pony and that they should drive down to the beach in the buggy.... "Yes, yes," said Mary. And Ninian went off to tell Widger to hurry harder than he had ever hurried before in his life. "I'll do that for 'ee, Mas'er Ninyan, sure 'nough!" said Widger.
'Ay, ay! said the Jew, with a grin, which sufficiently demonstrated that he was at no loss to understand the reason. 'Try 'em again, Tom; try 'em again. 'No more of it for me, thank 'ee, Fagin, replied Mr. Chitling; 'I've had enough. That 'ere Dodger has such a run of luck that there's no standing again' him.
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