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'Never a fear, quoth Rowley. 'W'y Mr. Anne, sir, if he 'ad, you wouldn't have seen ME any more! I ain't a hass, sir! 'Well, my boy, you can put that receipt in your pocket. You'll have no more use for it till you're quite clear of me. Don't lose it, though; it's your share of the Christmas-box: fifteen hundred pounds all for yourself. 'Begging your pardon, Mr.
"When William MacLure appears before the Judge, Milton," said Lachlan Campbell, who that day spoke his last words in public, and they were in defence of charity, "He will not be asking him about his professions, for the doctor's judgment hass been ready long ago; and it iss a good judgment, and you and I will be happy men if we get the like of it.
Wouldn't you like a bed with a blanket to it? Bill. Well, yes if it was guv to me. But I don't go in for knocking of yourself about, to sleep warm. Mat. Well, look here, Bill. It's all Susan and I can do to pay for our room, and get a bit of bread and a cup of tea. It ain't enough. If you were to earn a few pence now Bill. Oh golly! I never thought o' that. What a hass I wur, to be sure!
Let me tell you, man, that such a pledge as that is in nowise binding, and the law will hold you blameless if you choose to break it." "Ay yes the law!" retorted the boatswain, spitting over the rail, the more strongly to mark his contempt of that system which was once tersely denounced as being "a hass". "I don't take no account of the law, Mr Troubridge.
One o'clock in the morning came, then two, then three, and Mynheer Jacobus, taking the stem of his pipe from his mouth, said: "I think it will not be long now before Tayoga iss here. Long ago he hass either caught hiss man or hiss man hass got away, und he iss returning. I see hiss shadow now in the shrubbery. Let him in, Peter."
Mairi has more sense than you, Sheila, and she knows that a servant-lass has to stay at home, and she knows that she is ferry different from you; and she is a ferry good girl whatever, and hass no pride, and she does not expect nonsense in going about and such things." "I am quite sure, papa, you would rather go home and sit down and have a talk with Mr.
"It iss becos the gentleman hass tekken Punch up to the house to kip away the ghosts," smiled Mrs. Carré. "I should say this one would have been of more use." "He will be quiet soon. Scamp, bad beast, be qui-et! A couche!"
"Come, you lads," he said, in sharp, eager tones, "und bring your pistols with you." Robert and Tayoga snatched up their weapons, and followed him into the sitting-room, where the tall lank youth, Peter, stood. "You know Peter," he said, "und Peter knows you. Now, listen to what he hass to tell, but first pledge me that you will say nothing of it until I give you leave. Do you?"
"But, sir, seein' is believin'. There's this ship an' there's that there craft a-sailin' alongside in the teeth o' the gale. Hass or no hass, I sees that, captain!" "Hang it all, man, can't you see that it is only the mirage or reflection of our own vessel, produced by the light of the meteor throwing her shadow on to the mass of cloud leeward?
"I don't know what it is," began John Drillot, "but " "It's the man I shot inside there," said Trevna. "That man hass peen det a hundert years," said Morgan. "All the same, he was running about last night," said Peter, "and I had hold of his leg" with another shiver. "He's dead enough now, anyway," said Drillot. "Eh b'en! leave him where he is, and let's get away.
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