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"Ay know most of the naice people living round about here," replied the lady, "but for the moment, ay cannot recollect... was it one of the larger houses on the hill, do you know?" "I'm afraid I don't know," said Desmond. "You see, I've lost the address!" "Quayte!" returned Mrs. Viljohn-Smythe. "Ay can't say ay know the name!" she added.
"So I coom out-with-out everything. Just like this." "I can get you a couple of niggers," mused Mills, "an' you'll want a gun. Then, with skoff for a fortnight, you ought to be up at the Mazoe before they find your spoor. What do you think?" "I think i's ver' naice," smiled the other. "I don't know how you feel, but I'm just done up."
The indescribable homely smell of a wood-fire greeted the nostrils with the force of a spoken welcome. They could hear the gabble of the Kafirs at their supper and the noise of their shrill, empty laughter. "That's home," said Mills, breaking a long silence. "Yais," murmured the Frenchman; "'ome, eh? Yais. Ver' naice." "You may say what you like," continued the trader aggressively.
But the Cockney type Wowie! During a carriage ride in Florence with a mixed company of tourists I chanced to say something of a complimentary nature about something English, and a little London-bred woman spoke up and said: "Thenks! It's vurry naice of you to sezzo, 'm sure." Some of them talk like that honestly they do!
They kill and pound it up to make it good, and soon they eat in honour of the genelmen and ladies who have been so kind this naice trip." "I should like to kill them!" gasped Monny, preparing to cry, and flinging herself into Biddy's arms. "Oh somebody give me a hanky quick!" We all felt mechanically in our pockets; but I, being nearest, was first in the field.
'Twas very naice and refreshing. Now you have your tea, and let me look at you." And as Valmai partook of her tea and bread and butter and ham, even his hospitable feelings were satisfied. "Now I'm going to ring for Mrs. Finch to take these things away, uncle; no more books, mind!" "No, no," he said, laughing; "she's had four to-day, and a pair of slippers, and that'll do for one day.
'Well, an' I hope she's good too, an'll mek a good naice to Sir Cristhifer an' my ledy. Misthress Griffin, the maid, says as she's rether tatchy and find-fautin' aboot her cloothes, laike. But she's yoong she's yoong; that'll wear off when she's got a hoosband, an' children, an' summat else to think on. Sir Cristhifer's fain an' delaighted, I can see.
"I don' think," said the Frenchman, with confidence and a swelling of his chest "I don' think they wan' to meet me in the night. Not ver' naice eh? Leetle dangerous." "H'm. You've got a bit of an opinion of yerself, anyhow. If that's all right, it'll be time enough to clear by daylight. Did you bolt just as you are no niggers, no skoff, no anything?" "No time," was the answer.
"And look, the flames are reflected on the clouds. I do believe it's going to rain, if such a thing can happen here! I hope it won't spoil the poor darlings' celebration. Why, they seem to have something big and black hanging over the fire. What can it be? Oh, it looks awful!" "It is not awful, mees," Yusef, standing near, good naturedly reassured her. "It very naice.
"Well, bee-eef very naice an' som' gravvie too, plee-ese." She went off at this point into a rippling laugh, which, being infectious in its nature, also set her companion off, but the entrance of the landlord checked them both. He sat down at a small table near to them, and, being joined by a friend, called for a bottle of wine. "Hotter than ever," he remarked to Lawrence.
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