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"I tell you," he continued, with a sullen rage, "I heard every word. Do you hear me? I heard every word." The savage roughness of his voice made her tremble, but her spirits rose to meet his anger, and she laughed as she replied: "Well, you heard 'Thank you, sir, and 'Good-morning. It wasn't much, unless you took it as a lesson in manners, and goodness knows you need it." "Now, look'ye here.
'You're Dombey's jockey, ain't you? said the first man. 'I'm in Dombey's House, Mr Clark, returned the boy. 'Look'ye here, then, said Mr Clark. Obedient to the indication of Mr Clark's hand, the boy approached towards Florence, wondering, as well he might, what he had to do with her.
We shall be pinned in a couple of days." "Confound it, and they say that the ship is to be hove down, and that we shall be here six weeks at least, cooped up on board in a broiling sun, and nothing to do but to watch the pilot fish playing round the rudder and munch bad apricots. I won't go on board. Look'ye, Jack," said Gascoigne, "have you plenty of money?"
"Look'ye," said the alderman, "she shall not have a cage: it would be throwing money away." "I say she shall have a cage," said the lady, "as sure as my name is Sukey Bumble, while I have a crown in my pocket." "Well," said the alderman, "I see I must yield: so I am to get you money to spend in cages.
'Indeed I'll bear my love for thee with firmest soul, * Until from thee to me shall come a messenger. 'Look'ye, O Ibn Mansur, I will write thee an answer, that he may give thee what he promised thee. And I answered, 'Allah requite thee with good! So she called out to a handmaid, 'Bring inkcase and paper, and wrote these couplets,
'And it would go! said Captain Cuttle, making a species of serpent in the air with his hook. 'Lord, how that clock would go! For a moment or two he seemed quite lost in contemplating the pace of this ideal timepiece, and sat looking at the boy as if his face were the dial. 'But he's chockful of science, he observed, waving his hook towards the stock-in-trade. 'Look'ye here!
I was much struck with Daniel interpreting Nebuchadnezzar's dream by Rembrandt. We were shown a pretty large library. In his Lordship's dressing-room lay Johnson's small Dictionary: he shewed it to me, with some eagerness, saying, 'Look'ye! Quae terra nostri non plena laboris. He observed, also, Goldsmith's Animated Nature; and said, 'Here's our friend!
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