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"Because," said Ruby, laughing, "I meant to say that young married men were so much more agreeable than young bachelors." "Humph!" ejaculated the captain, who did not see much force in the observation, "and how d'ye know the leftenant's a young man? I didn't say he was young; mayhap he's old. But here he is, so you'll judge for yourself."
Why, good woman, Ive been off there in the Boadishey frigate, when you could see nothing but some such matter as a piece of sky, mayhap, as big as the main sail; and then again, there was a hole under your lee-quarter big enough to hold the whole British navy. Oh! for massys sake! and want you afeard, Benjamin? and how did you get off?
"Or even, mayhap, I may come down myself," she had added, "leaning on the arm of my son." So the bell was rung, and Laura and Mrs. Peter Melcombe waited for the grandmother and her guests with no little trepidation. They had not intended to be cordial.
And I perceived that he was that one of the Humpt Men which the Maid had cut with the knife; for the blood did show upon the shoulder and the breast; and this bleeding mayhap to have slowed the Man; so that Mine Own did be like to have supposed she had come utter free; yet he to have found her, by tracking, as I perceived.
The Major took off his hat and leaned against the tree. With humility, with drooping patience, Gid waited for him to speak, and his ear was strained to catch the familiar word of hope, or mayhap the first bar of a resounding laugh.
The flaccid frog! But on we go. "Professors, prophets, masters, each hitherto has had his creed and system to offer, good mayhap for the term; and each has put it forth for the truth everlasting, to drive the dagger to the heart of time, and put the axe to human growth! that one circle of wisdom issuing of the experience and needs of their day, should act the despot over all other circles for ever! so where at first light shone to light the yawning frog to his wet ditch, there, with the necessitated revolution of men's minds in the course of ages, darkness radiates."
"Ah! sir, burgling, I suppose, or mayhap worse," he exclaimed as he threw on some miscellaneous garments and seized a life-preserver which hung upon a hook. "Now I'm ready, only I hope they have left their snakes behind. I never could bear the sight of a snake, and they seem to know it the brutes." In due course we reached Lord Ragnall's room, which Mr.
"Thy plans are ever wisely laid, Myles." Turning into his own house Bradford found Alice with her wimple and scarf on just about to leave it. "Whither away, mistress?" asked he gayly. "Only to breathe a mouthful of fresh air, Master Governor. I have been so long ashipboard that four walls seem a prison to me. Mayhap I'll take passage back again with good Master Pierce."
Quoth the Bishop, "Mayhap that was what I meant to say, Sir Richard; but this I will say, that I saw thee just now laugh at the scurrilous jests of these fellows. It would have been more becoming of thee, methinks, to have checked them with frowns instead of spurring them on by laughter."
'Oh, dear, no! and ye're mistaken, and we're thinkin' o' the coal-scuttle in the back parlour, or somethin' about souls, if not coals. There's their answer. What did ye do with Mr. Paricles on board the yacht? Aha!" "What's this about Pericles?" said Mr. Pole. "Oh, nothing, Papa," returned Adela. "Nothing, do ye call ut!" said Mrs. Chump. "And, mayhap, good cause too.
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