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"Better write down the name Randolph. There's one of the tragedies of the sixties for you! An Englishman the hero, by the way. Nina Randolph is a handful of dust in there somewhere. Heigho! What's the difference, anyway? Even if she'd been happy she'd be dead by this time or too old to have a past."
"Heigho!" cried Jock, "what's this game of fox and geese you're a-playin' among the farmers?" "C-callate to git the steeple done before frost?" inquired Jethro, without so much as a smile. "B-build it tight, Jock b-build it tight." "Guess he'll build his'n tight, whatever it is," said Jock, looking after him as Jethro made his way to the little tannery near by.
"Poor soul," he said. "Those scars did more than disfigure her beautiful face. I'll wager there's a sad story there, Aaron. It's strange how I am haunted by the impression that I ought to know her. But I can't make it come clear. Heigho," he added a moment later as if to free his mind from unpleasant thoughts, "I'll be glad when we are safely up in the hills yonder.
"'Sire, I replied, 'joys prove cloudlets, Men are the merest Ixions. Here the King whistled aloud, 'Let's, Heigho, go look at our lions! Such are the sorrowful chances If you talk fine to King Francis." The day after Rachel's adventure with Don a card came into the drawing-room, and therewith a message that the gentleman had availed himself of Mrs.
"Indeed, I think the mercury rose a little while you were looking at it." "Oh no," he said, laughing, "even you could not make it rise to-night. Heigho, Ned! coming to kiss good-night? I say, Ned, tell us what mamma has for Amy's stocking. What a good joke it is, to be sure I We all had the impression you were a little girl, you know, and selected our gifts accordingly.
As I took my accustomed place on the settle cushion, Patty's first embroidery, he would cry: "Heigho, Richard, our little Miss Prim hath become a belle. And I must have another clerk now to copy out my briefs, and a housekeeper soon, i' faith." Patty would never fail to flush up at the words, and run to perch on her father's knee and put her hand over his mouth. "How can you, Mr.
"I didn't say 'fair'; that's better than 'gentle. I wish critics would always be so useful as to give one good idea. Heigho! here goes again: "'Fair ladies and brave sirs, The player's art is to amuse, Instruct, or to confuse By too much good advice, But poorly given: That no one follows, because, forsooth, 'Tis thrown at him, neck and heels.
But something in Zell's pouting lips and vexed expression caught his eye, and he said good-naturedly: "Heigho, youngster, what has brought a thunder-cloud across your saucy face?" "In providing for birthdays to come, I guess you have forgotten your baby's birthday present." "Come here, you envious elf," said her father, taking something from his pocket.
An American, as my father was a Cumberland-man, and an Englishman as a subject, and as connected with the empire." "As St. Paul was a Roman. Heigho! Well, I fear I have but one character or, if I have two, they are an American, and a New York girl. Did I dress in scarlet, as you do, I might feel English too, possibly." "This is making a trifling misunderstanding too serious," observed Beulah.
Then from time to time he told me they were 'goin' round, miss, goin' round, and gave me other assurances of 'the greatest circulation in the world, which was true enough certainly, though the old thief omitted to say it was at the paper-mill, where they were being turned into pulp. "But, heigho! I don't need newspapers to remind me of London. Like St. Dear old London!
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