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"Lordy!" remarked Will. "Lead on in!" I suggested. Then, remembering my new part, "It'll have to be some defect if one of us can't fix it!" The gap-guard purred approval and swung his lantern by way of invitation to follow him as he turned on a naked heel and led the way.
"Jimini!" cried he, his smiles breaking in an instant through his tears. "It's a fine pipe. See to my new pipe, Norah. I lay that Jarge never had a pipe like that. You've got your firelock there, sergeant?" "Yes, sir. I was on my way back from the butts when I looked in." "Let me have the feel of it. Lordy, but it seems like old times to have one's hand on a musket.
I didn't try to save it! I only tried to split a Yankee's head and didn't even do that! Dick Smith, if you tell anybody else that I saved Well, who did, then? Good Lordy! if I'd known that to save a man's life would make all this fuss I wouldn't 'a' done it!
That was a sign that he was within two to three hundred feet of the earth. All at once something flashed out from this moving mass that presently disappeared underground again. Archie had momentarily stopped. But an unmistakable whistle of lead was accompanied by a metallic puncture below. The bullet hit the near end of his petrol tank almost at his knee. Now he knew. "Lordy!" he palpitated.
Lordy," with a burst of enthusiasm, "I've had more names in my time! My Aunt Bridget she called me 'Mag' when she didn't make it somethin' worse. And when I first came to the Home the kids called me 'Fire Alarm, 'cause my hair was red. And the cook they had then called me 'Lonesome, 'cause I guess I looked that way.
The last thing I done was to open the sideboa'd an' cut a piece o' pie an' eat it. I must o' had my glasses on then. I ricollec' it was sweet-potato pie, an' it was scorched on one side. Lordy! but what a pleasure it is to look for a thing when a person can look!" He crossed over to the sideboard. "Yas" he had opened the door and was cutting another piece of pie. "Yas.
"Lordy," gasped a stenographer to her nearest neighbor, "but I'm sorry for poor young Mr. Ward did you see the old man's face?" The half-whispered remark expressed, with fair accuracy, the general sentiment of the entire force. Adam Ward did not sit down at his desk, but going to a window he stood looking out as though deep in thought. "Father," said John, at last, "what is it?
At sight of the heap of bank paper and gold that lay in front of us, between the candles, or rolled upon the floor alongside, I stood astonished. 'O Lord! cried Mr. Rowley; 'oh Lordy, Lordy, Lord! and he scrambled after the fallen guineas. 'O my, Mr. Anne! what a sight o' money! Why, it's like a blessed story-book. It's like the Forty Thieves.
But, with me, it pays. The last one he broke he made up to me with my opal-and-diamond beetle." "Wouldn't wear an opal if it was set next to the Hope diamond." "Superstitious, dearie?" "Unlucky. Never knew it to fail." "Not a superstition in my bones. I don't believe in walking under ladders or opening an umbrella in the house or sitting down with thirteen, but, Lordy! never saw the like with you!
'Turbulence' is nearly finished, and I'm itching to get on with a new story I've thought of. I'm calling it 'The Wayward Man. ..." "We might go into the country...." "Or hire a furnished flat for a while...." "Or do something.... Lordy God, Quinny, we're getting frightfully vague and loose-endy. We really must pull ourselves together. There's a bun-shop somewhere about. Suppose we have tea?"
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