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You mustn't think I'm not and that you've got to make anything up to me, because that would make me feel as if I'd there's a word for it, I know, but I can't think of it. It's what horrid girls do to men when they're trying to get hold of them as if I'd comp comprised " "D'you mean compromised?" "Yes." "I make you feel as if you'd compromised me?" "That's right." "Well, I am jiggered!

It was the sight of Dinah Brome at the head of affairs, however, which drew his attention from these details. "Well, I'm jiggered!" Depper said, and paused, door in hand, on his own freshly-washed step. "You wipe your feet, afore you come in," said Mrs Brome, masterful as ever. "Here's yer supper ready.

"Friendless boy, be jiggered!" he replied "You're not friendless from now, you can be sarten! Why, I was your father's own coxswain in the Swallow, off the coast, and it was in my arms he died when he received that murdering nigger's shot in his chest, right 'twixt wind and water.

"Pull out for nothing," was the astounding answer. "You know perfectly no Time Freight on this road takes a passenger of any kind, and it would be more'n my job's worth to take you!" "Then, in God's name, why did you signal?" was the almost agonized question. "Signal be jiggered! I never signalled. No man of my crew signalled. If you want to get back to the mines, stay here and flag No. 5.

When he had concluded, the proprietor plunged his hands deep in his pockets, surveyed the boy from head to foot much as Parsons and Robinson had, saying not a word until Dick's face reddened under the close scrutiny, when he exclaimed, "Well, I'll be jiggered! A kid of your size say, how old are you, bub?" "Thirteen."

"Well, I'm jiggered," he went on, "if here isn't another caterpillar higher up! No, it ain't a caterpillar; but if it ain't a caterpillar, what is it?" There was indeed another wavy green line, but Westray knew what it was directly he saw it. "Be careful," he said; "they aren't caterpillars at all, but just part of a coat of arms a kind of bars in an heraldic shield, you know.

We must go back for more men and bring along a Gatling. Slow down!" he called. Lafarge turned on his heel with an oath, and stood watching the Ninety-Nine. "She'll laugh at me till I die!" he said to himself presently, as the tug turned up stream and pointed for Quebec. "Well, I'm jiggered!" he added, as a cannon shot came ringing over the water after them.

Langshaw studied it for a moment before opening it. "Well, I'll be jiggered!" he breathed, with a strange glance round at the waiting group and an odd, crooked smile. "I'll be jiggered!"

Have a drink, will you, when time's up?" The policeman glanced surreptitiously at the half-crown which Spencer insinuated into his palm, and looked after the donor as he went back to the hotel. "Well, I'm jiggered!" he said to himself.

"And what do you mean, sir," resumed the Inspector, after inflating his lungs for another gust, "what in the name of all the piebald circus clowns that ever jiggered around on sawdust, do you mean by coming on parade dressed like the ringmaster of a traveling monkey-show, sir?