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"Indade, that we will not," said Deborah cheerfully. "Don't you think Denny's garden's been doin' fine this summer, Doctor?" "Fine," said the Doctor heartily. "But then it's always fine. There's lots of us would like to know how he makes it do so well." Denny gave a pleased laugh. "Aw now Doctor you're flatterin' me. They have been doin' pretty well though pretty well fer me."
'I should regard any such means of gettin' into a maid's good graces as being despisable, he said, after a while. 'Very well, my Christian friend, the farmer's wife retorted, with a laugh. 'Them as mek bread without barm must look to spoil the batch. 'I was niver of a flatterin' turn of mind, said Thistlewood. 'You niver was, John, responded Mrs.
My assailants havin ca'ed in the assistance o' a couple o' great, big, stout fallows o' porters, I was finally pinned to the floor, whan my hauns bein secured by a pair o' handcuffs, I was raised to my feet, again collared by the twa officers, and a cry havin been made to clear the road, I was led oot o' the office in procession; a messenger on each side o' me, the twa porters ahint, and ane before, openin a passage through the crowd, whose remarks, as I gaed alang, were highly flatterin to me:
Unless," with returning suspicion, "you came because I " He paused, warned by the expression on his caller's face. "What was that?" she demanded. "Nothin'." "Nothin', I guess. If you was flatterin' yourself with the idea that I came here to chase after you, you never was more mistaken in your life, or ever will be. You set down. You and I have got to talk. Set right down."
"`The pleasures of hope told a flatterin' tale Regardin' the fleet when Lord Nelson set sail. "Fill me out another cup of tea, Hebe." It was a pleasant little fiction with the captain to call his beverage "tea". Minnie filled out a small cupful of the contents of the little teapot, which did, indeed, resemble tea, but which smelt marvellously like hot rum and water. "Enough, enough.
And Katie listened to the words with such sweet joy she feared her face would tell too much, and put up her hands to hide it, crying: "Ah, ye're tryin' to make me silly, you Donald, with such flatterin'. We're gettin' old, Donald, you an' me," she added, with a guilty little undercurrent of thought in her mind. "D'ye mind that I was thirty last month?"
"Ach, man; it's a' right askin' that question; but efter thae chaps get round aboot you, wi' their greasy tongues, an' their flatterin' ways, you jist begin to think that it's nae use to bother ony mair aboot resistin'. Look at that auld fermer-collier lookin' chiel, wi' his white heid an' his snipe-nose an' a smile on his face that wad mak' you believe he was gaun to dae you some big service.
It either out-lucks you or out-plays you whenever it's so inclined; an' it seems allers so inclined, Destiny does, jest as you're flatterin' yourse'f you've got a shore thing. A gent's bound to play fa'r with Destiny; he can put a bet down on that. You can't hold six kyards; you can't deal double; you can't play no cold hands; you can't bluff Destiny.
Or peradventure is it a Circus? . . . Sold again! 'Tis a Recruitin' Meetin', an' for Saturday." Having slapped on the paste, he unfolded a bill and eyed it critically. "'YOUR KING AND COUNTRY WANT YOU. That's pretty good for Polpier, eh? Flatterin', one might almost say." His cheerfulness held the group with their passions arrested.
"Which this yere is almighty flatterin' to Mace as a shot, an' it plumb tickles the boy's sire. He allows he's lived in Arkansaw, an' shorely knows good shootin', an' this yere's speshul good. An' then he corrals the Greaser's skelp to take back with him.
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