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He was in the parlour, and a large china dog welcomed him with a fixed grin. "W'ere's the old bloke?" muttered Chook. Pinkey pointed to the dining-room, and Chook walked briskly in. He found Partridge in his arm-chair, scowling at him over the newspaper. "Might I ask 'oo you are?" he growled.
"Ah, thanks, thanks," cried Mr Ravenshaw heartily, as he drove past; "bad news that about the plain-hunters. I suppose you've heard it." "Ay, it iss pad news ferry pad news inteed, Mister Ruvnshaw. It will pe goin' to the fort ye are?" "Yes; the poor people will need all the help we can give them." "They wull that; oo ay."
"An' 'oo the 'ell wants excitement in a toob!" the man answered. John considered the matter for a moment or two. "I expect you're right," he said, and then, more briskly, added, "Yes, of course. Of course, you're right. Travelling in a train would not be pleasant if it were exciting." "It would not," the man answered.
White's quotation from Butler's English Grammar, we think he has misapprehended Butler. We wish he had not broken the extract off so short, with an etc. What did Butler mean by "oo short"? Mr. White draws the inference that Puck was called Pook, and that, since it was made to rhyme with luck, that word and "all of similar orthography" were pronounced with an oo.
Then she called him Bertie Gaga, for fun; and it got to Gaga. I never spoken to him, so I don't know. Look out, he's looking at us. Oo, I believe he's got a crush on you, Sally." Presently the young man followed his mother out of the room, and there was a little buzz when they were gone. The girls leaned together, and whispered, laughing among themselves.
He went quickly down into the hall, and there was encountered by Sophie Gordeloup, who, skipping over the gun-cases, and rushing through the portmanteaus, caught the baronet by the arm before he had been able to approach the dining-room door. "Sir 'Oo," she said, "I am so glad to have caught you.
Her face lit up with sudden interest as she saw me: 'Oo! she cried with spirit, 'er you the genelmun has orduder bawth? Again I pleaded guilty, and with a broad, reassuring smile, as of one who should say: 'Bless you, we've had visitors just as mad as you before this, and never attempted to lasso or otherwise constrain them.
I got it tied in a corner o' what Miss Montagu taught me to call my shimmy shifts bein' vulgar, she said." So here we are, and W.B. capital. Which we hope to post our next from Holmness, and remain, 'Yours respectfully, 'TILDA. 'William will post this. "But you're not sure of that, you know," he urged. "'Oo brought yer 'ere, I'd like to know?
It's something I am, somehow. Oh, do stay," she said, "do be like that always." She sighed and turned away saying in Harriett's voice, "Oo crumbs! This is no place for me." The sky seen from the summer-house was darker still. There were no massed clouds, nothing but a hard even dark copper-grey, and away through the gap the distant country was bright like a little painted scene.
This often happens in the highest ranges, and one needs only to mingle an oo in the vowel to be sung, which must, however, be sounded not forward in the mouth but behind the nose. When the larynx must stand very low, the tongue naturally must not be too high, else it would affect the position of the larynx. One must learn to feel and hear it.
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