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She spoke to the air, perhaps, but her father answered the comment. "Isn't it fine enough to please you, daughter?" as he took his seat opposite the two girls in a handsome victoria, that would not have disgraced the most aristocratic drive in London. "Fine enough? It's too fine!" put in Hope with emphasis. "It's as Englishy as Portsmouth itself, so far.
"How are the others?... Going strong?... We had them all here for our funeral service: the Macaulays, White, Richards, Henley, the three prospectors out Chini way, everyone within reach. And afterwards we gave them a feed. A homely one, with cakes and jam, as Englishy as possible.
A body canna get their tongue rinnin' easy an' comfortable like, but it's 'Woman, silence! in a yoice as graund an' awfu' as 'The Lord said unto Moses' or else you wi' yer Englishy peepin' tongue, 'Gran'mither! as terrible shockit like as if a body were gaun intil the kirk on Sabbath wi' their stockin's doon aboot their ankles!" The little outburst seemed mightily to relieve the old lady.
The old lady laughed a hearty laugh, in which, however, Ralph did not join. "Sae fine an' Englishy the ways o' folk noo," she went on; "ye mauna say this, ye mauna mention that; dear sirse me, I canna mind them a'. I'm ower auld a Pussy Bawdrous to learn new tricks o' sayin' 'miauw' to the kittlins.
Leeby had refused to be drawn into conversation, like one who knew her place, yet all her actions were genteel and her monosyllabic replies in the Englishy tongue, as of one who was, after all, a little above the common. "I'm no partikler," was what Hendry said.
He seems omnipresent!" laughed the captain, as they whirled by. "When are they off for Poonah?" "I suppose to-day, but perhaps not till night," returned Faith. "Did you ever see anything like that? If you call this Englishy, Hope." "No, I don't. Things are beginning to look quite Indiany, since we left those fine new streets, I confess."
The people, too, had such Englishy faces and such queer little eccentricities of dress; the young lady that sang contralto in the choir wore a scarf like a man's on her hat. The cathedral isn't much, architecturally, I suppose, but it affected me very solemnly, and I couldn't help feeling that it was as much a part of British power and grandeur as the citadel itself.
I took a bit peek in at the winda, an' here's Sandy merchin' aboot wi' the horse cover tied up in a bundle in ae hand, an' a stick i' the ither. He stoppit in the tume staw an' laid doon his bundle rale smert like; syne he lookit ower the buird to Donal', an' says, in an Englishy kind o' a voice, "Twa return tickets third-class an' back to Edinboro!" I saw syne what he was at!
She was not, indeed, wholly a girl of the south uplands. Her grandmother was never done reminding her of her "Englishy" ways, which, according to that authority, she had contracted during those early years she had spent in Cumberland.
Then she stole but the house, and swiftly buttoned her wrapper, speaking to Jess by nods the while. There was a third knock, whereupon Jess said, in a loud, Englishy voice Hendry was about to reply, but she shook her fist at him. Next moment Leeby opened the door. I was upstairs, but I heard Jess say "Dear me, if it's not Mrs. Curly and Mr. Curly! And hoo are ye? Come in, by.
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