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Have you a brother, young mistress?" "No, please your Majesty, I am an only child." "More's the pity," he said kindly, and with a smile brightening his heavy features. "'Tis too good a breed to die out. You are Catholic?" "I am bred in the English Church, so please your Majesty." His Majesty was evidently less pleased than before, but he only said, "Ha! and my godchild!
Poaching, said the old man, who had tried topics ranging from early turnips to horseshoeing poaching ain't wot it used to be in these 'ere parts. Nothing is like it used to be, poaching nor anything else; but that there man you might ha' noticed as went out about ten minutes ago and called me "Old Truthfulness" as 'e passed is the worst one I know.
Ida hung down her head. "Ha!" exclaimed Peg. "So you've been thinking of it, have you?" "Yes," answered Ida, boldly, after a moment's hesitation. "I did think I should if I got a good chance." "Humph!" said the woman, "I see we must understand one another. Unless you promise this, back you go into the dark closet, and I shall keep you there."
"Ha!" exclaimed Gadarn, as a final wind up to the last sneeze, "the air of that Swamp seems to have been too strong for me. I'm growing old, you see. Well what was I saying? never mind. You were referring to that poor lad Cormac. Yes, I have news of him." "Good news, I hope?" said the prince, anxiously. "O yes very good excellent!
Ha! don't you see? there she is on the other side, crowning Claudius." "Then there is an E." "Something about Aeneas," suggested Norman gravely. But Ethel was sure that could not be, because there was no diphthong; and a fresh theory was just being started, when Blanche's head was thrust in to know what made them all so busy.
"I should prefer being thrown to the demnition ducks and drakes," he said moodily. "You're such a miserable man," she chided him, "and yet you have everything to make life worth living." "Ha, ha!" said T. X. "You have, of course you have! You have a splendid position. Everybody looks up to you and talks about you. You have got a wife and family who adore you "
"I'll teach them, sir! You may depend on it! We did have a little flare-up yesterday, but I showed them the sense of it. You might teach those dogs anything! Ha! what then, Tartar! Halloo, Mungo! Rats, rats, rats!"
"I heard summat last night 'at might be useful to you and Lawyer Eldrick about this here Parrawhite affair." "Oh!" said Byner, at once interested. "What now?" "You'll ha' noticed, as you come along t' road just now, 'at there's a deal o' stone quarries i' this neighbourhood?" replied Pickard. "Well, now, of course, some o' t' quarry men comes in here.
"That they're not," cried Dot, "I know. Of course: it's that box lid you open in the floor." "Ha! ha! ha!" laughed the Skipper boisterously. "Box lid in the floor! Why, it's the hatch; and it isn't the floor, it's the deck; and I shall take it off and fill the hold with little lumps of coal." "Oh, yes! I know that. It's called the 'hold' because it holds so much."
A fair chamber, looking to the sun; sheets smelling of lavender from Dame Margery's own store, and, for the matter of that, spread by the fair hands of Maudlin, her daughter the best favored lass that ever danced under a Maypole. Ha! have at ye there, young sir! Not to speak of the October ale of old Gregory, her father ay, nor the rare Hollands, that never paid excise duties to the king."
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