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But this gift from Neil, her cousin, she surely might keep, for her father said so, and, young-girl-like, she was admiring herself, or rather the hat, before the glass, when Neil himself came in. "Hallo, Dot," he said, coming quickly to her side. "At it, I see, like the rest of your kind; but don't it become you, though!
"You've no chance of getting it now, Miss May, for I've noticed that when the old 'ooman once forgets a thing it don't come back to her except, p'r'aps, a week or two afterwards. Come now, draw in and go to work. But, p'r'aps, Dollops may have heard the message. Hallo! Dollops! come here, and bring the kettle with you."
Phil," she said, looking up, "don't you think that shame has more to do with it than pride?" Phil stooped and kissed her. "Sure it's that, no doubt, and I'm a beast entirely for suggesting pride." "Supper! Hallo in there," shouted Mr Flint, thundering at the door; "don't keep the old 'ooman waiting!" Phil and May came forth at once, but the former would not remain to supper.
Percy had too much reason to fear that poor Fangs had become the prey of the lion; but his thoughts began to wander, and overcome by fatigue, he was soon fast asleep. The night passed quietly by. Denis was the first to open his eyes. It was broad daylight. On looking up through the branches, he observed that the sky was completely obscured. "Hallo! we must have had a long snooze," he exclaimed.
"To be sure we will," assented the other encouragingly; "an' that'll be one of the jolliest bits of it all, that we'll spend lots of our time in tryin' to find out things that'll do instead o' other things, won't we? And then hallo! was that a grump?" "It sounded uncommon like one." "An' that's a squeal," said Billy.
He no longer sprang into the air and bounded from rock to rock like a wild goat, but, coursing down the bed of a mountain-torrent, came out upon the road, and did not halt until he was in front of the constabulary station. "Hallo! laddie, what's wrang?" inquired a blue-coated official, whose language betokened him a Lowland Scot. "I've seen him; come with me quick!
There were only two men in the boat besides its owners, Swankie and Spink. "What can they want?" said Dove, looking down on them as he turned to thrust the iron on which he was engaged into the fire. As he spoke the foreman looked up. "Ho! Ruby Brand," he shouted, "come down here; you're wanted." "Hallo! Ruby," exclaimed the smith, "more friends o' yours!
He as rather an old man and his movements were slack; his face was hard, but on the whole expressionless. "Hallo!" he said. "Late again! The others have pulled out a quarter of an hour since." "I saw them," Charnock answered with a languid hint of meaning. "Didn't want to join the procession and thought they might load up my rig if I got here on time."
'Humph! said Slyme, thoughtfully. 'I couldn't hope to disgrace him into anything when you have shot so far ahead of me though. I forgot that. Jonas repeated the same look and gesture. 'Jack! said Slyme. 'Hallo! returned his man. 'Go down to the door, ready for the coach. Call out when it comes. I'd rather have you there. Now then, he added, turning hastily to Jonas, when the man was gone.
Ugh! wish I had a packet of dynamite to drop amongst them and make them look up. Hallo!" The earth had suddenly vanished from our sight. We had entered the clouds. For half-an-hour we were muffled in a cold, damp mist, and total darkness, and had begun to think of going indoors when, all at once, the car burst into the pure and starlit region of the upper air.
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