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For however gruff Jane Merrick might be to the people with whom she came in contact, she was always tender to her beloved flowers, and her nature invariably softened when in their presence. By and by Oscar, the groom, stepped through an opening in the hedge and touched his hat. "Has my niece arrived?" asked his mistress, sharply. "She's on the way, mum," the man answered, grinning.
Dorothy smiled, for this was distinctly encouraging, from at least one point of view. "You wear a cap, I suppose?" "Yes, mum, for dustin'. When I goes out I puts on my bonnet." "Can you do plain cooking?" inquired Dorothy, hastily, perceiving that she was treading upon dangerous ground. "Yes, mum. The more plain it is the better all around.
Bugsby's had left as usual after the very first night, the poor little infant blistered all over with bites on its little dear face; how the Miss Learys was going on shameful with the two young men, actially in their setting-room, mum, where one of them offered Miss Laura Leary a cigar; how Mrs.
Maida saw at once that it was one of Billy’s games. She had to bite her lips to keep from laughing. “Yes,” she said, when she had made her mouth quite firm. “How much do you want to pay for them?” “Not more than a penny each, mum,” he replied. Maida took out of a drawer the pamphlet-tales that Billy had liked so much. “Are these what you want?” she asked.
Gladstone seemed such a unique one, that I nearly jumped up in my place to tell him that it was a sweet black beer brewed from wheat, and peculiar to Brunswick; but being a very young Member of the House then, I refrained, as it looked too much like self-advertisement; besides, "Mum" was so obviously the word.
"Well, mum, if you ask my opinion, I don't think Miss Lucy is the one to marry a fool; and by all accounts, there's a deal more in Mr. Hardies's head than what there isn't in Mr. Talboysese's." "You are a clever girl. You shall have the cloak as well, and, if my niece marries, you shall remain in her service all the same." "Thank you kindly, mum.
They hain't soaked a mite to-day, mum, and they ain't goin' to; they've hove the jug into a snowdrift, and they'd take it kind, mum if you are willin'." The woman, still smiling happily, was already wrapping up the baby. Breem held up a warning finger when he returned a little later, and again smiled delightedly.
"Aye, but it ain't mine yet, Cap'n, so mum it but I've a plan." "Belay, Job!" exclaimed Diccon. "Easy all. Yonder she cometh." Sure enough, I saw Joanna descend the ladder from the poop and come mincing across the deck towards us. "Hola, Belvedere, mon Capitan!" said she, glancing about her quick-eyed. "You keep your ship very foul, yes. Dirt to dirt! ah?
He's the sort of man who can be as mum as the grave when he chooses. But if you persist in refusing to trust him, well, I tell you that the thought of what he may be up to makes me frightened." "Now look here, my boy," said White, "you force me to remind you that I'm senior partner here, and to repeat that what I say on this matter's going to be done.
"Well, mum," said Buffle, with a delighted but sheepish look, which would have become a missionary complimented on the number of converts he had made, "I hev been around a good deal, that's a fact. I reckon I've staked a claim purty much ev'rywhar in the diggins." "So I inferred from what the driver said," she replied, "and I came down here to ask you a question."
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