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'Which you gave me for natural love and affection. ''Deed, then 'twas because you were poor an' motherless in a strange land, but now the gold's a worry to you, I doubt. Jim laughed and shook his head. 'I want a loaf, he said. 'My mate is hungry and waiting. 'Heigho! sighed Aurora; 'devil a scrap of gallantry have these slips of boys, Quigley!
There, light the two flat candlesticks, and we will have a good long snooze. That's right; put out the others. No, no; use the extinguisher! Don't blow them out, or there will be such a smell." Then "Shall I shut the window, uncle?" "Oh, no, I don't think you need. The place is like an oven. Heigho ha hum! Yes, I am sleepy. Come along. Good-night, my boy.
Ah! perverse child; why would not you come when I could have been of some use to you when, at least, I could, have received you as I ought? This is not a fit place, you see; nor am I now in circumstances, or in a style of life Heigho!" "Dr. Percy is not come yet," resumed she. "This is his usual hour and I wrote a note to tell him that he would meet his sister Caroline to-night."
This was all very heavy news for me. I had hoped in France that most at least of the Catholic troubles were over, and now, here again they were, in a new form. I sighed aloud. "Heigho!" I said. "But this is all beyond me, Mr. Chiffinch. I had best be gone into the country." "I think you had," he said very seriously. "You can do nothing in this place."
I quarrel with no lady's taste in that way; but heigho! I had rather that Mrs. Fitz-Boodle should read "Humphry Clinker!" Besides these works, there was a "Peerage," of course. What genteel family was ever without one?
The party evidently advanced nearer to them, and carolled in very beautiful tones, the song of Ariel: "Where the bee sucks, there lurk I, In the cowslip's bell I lie," etcetera. "Heigho!" exclaimed a soft voice, after the song had been finished; "I wish I could creep into a cowslip-bell.
"There certainly never was such beautiful hair!" said Ellinor admiringly; "and, let me see, yes, on Thursday fortnight I may be dressing it, perhaps, for the last time heigho!"
How pleasant it is to have money! Heigho! How pleasant it is to have money! Six pounds a week from the paper, and I could make easily another four if I chose. Sometimes I don't get any presents; women seem as if they were going to chuck it up, and then they send all things money, jewelry, and comestibles. I am sure it was Ida who sent that hundred pounds. What should I do if it ever came out?
Sometimes his lady patients deliberately set themselves to capture him, and will speak ill-naturedly of him if he refuses to fall into their net. At others, sympathy with a sufferer leads to a flirtation during convalescence, and often a word spoken in jest in order to cheer is taken seriously by romantic girls who believe that to marry a doctor is to attain social status and distinction. Heigho!
Do you suppose Mary, or Martha, or Maggie, or whatever her name is, could rustle me a good strong cup of tea. "Haven't you dined, Curtis?" cried Laura. "Oh, I had a stand-up lunch somewhere with Sam. But we were both so excited we might as well have eaten sawdust. Heigho, I sure am tired. It takes it out of you, Mr. Corthell, to make five hundred thousand in about ten hours."
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