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"Onyhow, yerself wouldn't deprive us of a drop now and then, jist to keep up the spirits." The detective shakes his head, then discloses to them the object of his search, adding, in parenthesis, that he does not think Mr. Toddleworth is the thief. A dozen tongues are ready to confirm the detective's belief. "Not a shillin' of it did the poor crature take-indeed he didn't, now, Mr. Fitzgerald.
"Faith, an' the neame atween the two's no matter onyhow!" rejoined Mr. Alderman Dooley, who, having left the two great men to themselves, again took to the bottle, and continued serving himself and his friend with an experience in every way worthy of so great an alderman. "Pray, sir," said Fernando, with a gracious smile, "take nothing amiss that our worthy friend says."
'Well, I'll no say but what it micht mean a deal mair, replied McIntosh, with characteristic Scotch caution, as he followed Madame into the house; 'it's no a verra bad sign, onyhow; I winna say but what we micht be near the Devil's Lead. 'And if we are? said Madame, turning with a smile.
Donahue?" says the Judge, inquiringly. "Arrah, good-morning, yer 'onher! Shure, it's only the sixth time these three weeks. Doesn't meself like to see yer smiling face, onyhow!" Here Mrs. Donahue commences complimenting the Judge in one breath, and laying no end of charges at the door of the very diminutive and harmless Mister Donahue in the next.
M'Adam's to be beat somehow, onyhow; and Moore's to win. So they've settled it, and so 'twill be onless, Wullie, onless but curse it! I've no the proof!" and he hammered the table before him and stamped on the floor. At midnight he arose, a mad, desperate plan looming through his fuddled brain. "I swore I'd pay him, Wullie, and I will. If I hang for it I'll be even wi' him.
And it's a' just stuff and nonsense to suggest Sir Reginald was sitting on a winter's night or next door to winter onyhow, with his windie wide open. I'm too well acquaint with his habits to believe that for a minute. And it's impossible the man can have opened a snibbed windie and got in, with some one sitting in the room, and no alarm given.
For some weeks previously the weather had been rainy; and this, added to the haste and discomfort of the night march, considerably increased the fatigue of the troops. Notwithstanding these disadvantages, not a murmur nor complaint was heard on any side. "I'm unco glad to get a blink o' them, onyhow," said a tall, raw-boned sergeant, who marched beside me.
The boy stood silent, his mouth wide open, staring at him stupidly. "Do you hear, you lunk-head? I 'm after a doctor; how do you signal the cage?" "Twa yanks on the cord, meester," was the grudging reply. "Wha was ye, onyhow?" But Winston, unheeding the question, was already off, his only thought the necessity of immediately attaining the surface in safety, ahead of the spreading of an alarm.
MacAlister shook his head and declared firmly: "There was naething under the seats. I could see that fine. And onyhow we can hae a look at the next stop." "As if he'll be waiting for us, now he kens we're looking for him!" "But there was naething there!" persisted Mr. MacAlister. "Then what's come over the man? Here were we sitting next the platform.
'I gave him such a terrible blow, she said, mournfully, 'and he fell like a stone over the embankment. 'He didna leave go the nugget, onyhow, ye ken, said Archie, dryly; 'so he couldna hae been verra far gone, but I'll gang intil the toun and see what I can hear.