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"I wants to ask you a question," returned the other, bringing his face closer to Adrien, who recoiled involuntarily the very smell of the fustian clothes offending his delicate nostrils. The man noticed this, and frowned even more heavily. "You're a gentleman," he said, "leastways I s'pose you calls yourself such p'raps you'll act like one."

'Why, sir, returned Mark, 'for the matter of that, everybody as is here might say the same thing; many of 'em with better reason p'raps than you or me. Hold up, sir. Do something. Couldn't you ease your mind, now, don't you think, by making some personal obserwations in a letter to Scadder? 'No, said Martin, shaking his head sorrowfully: 'I am past that.

Make the change by all means." "Please, sir," said Williamson, approaching at that moment, "I've just been at the top of the building an' observed a French schooner bearing down from the south-west." "Well, what of that?" demanded Rudyerd. "Why, sir," said Williamson with some hesitation in his manner, "p'raps it's a man-of-war, sir."

"Does it count if I make that little noise, Mummy? It sort of lets the pain out." "No, my lamb, it doesn't count. Is the pain very bad?" "Yes, Mummy, awful. It's going faster and faster. And it bizzes. And when it doesn't bizz, it thumps." He paused "I think p'raps I could bear it better if I sat on your knee." Frances thought she could bear it better too.

Ogula camp no place for old girl if they short of chop and hungry. But p'raps she never get there; I nose round and find out." Apparently Jeekie did "nose round" to some purpose, for just as Alan was dropping off to sleep in his bough shelter a most fearful din arose without, through which he recognized the vociferations of Jeekie.

"It was magic, I'm sure," said Button-Bright. "It surely couldn't have been anything else." "P'raps," suggested Trot, "the umbrella can do other magic things." "No," said the boy. "I've tried it. When I landed in Buffalo I was hot and thirsty. I had ten cents car fare, but I was afraid to spend it. So I held up the umbrella and wished I had an ice-cream soda, but I didn't get it.

I durstn't go and offend yer par; he's a good customer to me, he is." "I'll give you a sovereign to do it," said Paul. "If yer wouldn't tell no tales, I might put yer down at the corner p'raps," said Clegg, hesitating, to Paul's joy; "not as it ain't cheap at that, but let's see yer suffering fust.

It must ha' been very hard for her to die like this, axin your parden, for she wasn' one to bear pain." Another long pause. "No, she cudn' bear pain. P'raps he might ha' stood it better though o' course you acted for the best, an' thankin' you kindly. I'd as lief take her home now, naybours, if 'tis all the same."

'Who have we here? asked Miss Glitters, as a ponderous, parti-coloured clown, on a great, curly-coated cart-horse, brought up the rear. 'Early callers, observed Captain Seedeybuck, eating away complacently. 'Friends of Mr. Sponge's, most likely, suggested Captain Quod. 'Some of the little Sponges come to see their pa, p'raps, lisped Miss Howard, pretending to be shocked after she had said it.

To add to the horror of the scene large sea-snakes were seen swimming wildly about, as if seeking to escape from the novel dangers that surrounded them. The sailors looked on in awe-stricken silence for some time. "P'raps some of 'em may be alive yet!" whispered one. "Couldn't we lower a boat?" "Impossible in such a sea," said the captain, who overheard the remark.