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They make up about two hundred an' twenty beds in it altogether, an' these are chock-full a'most every night. One way or another they had forty-four thousand men, more or less, as slep' under this roof last year so I've bin told. That's patronisin', ain't it? To say nothin' o' the fellers as comes for grub, which, as you've found, is good for the money, and the attendants is civil.
I don't bear her no grudge, you understand? . . . But if you've still a mind to her, and she've a mind to you, I stand out from this moment, and wish 'ee luck!" 'Bias stood up, stiff with wrath. "And the Lord knows, Cai Hocken, how at this moment I keep my hands off you! . . . Wasn't it bad enough before, but you must stand patronisin' there, offerin' me what you don't want?
So he gets his pipe an' fills it with medicine tobacco an' blows a mouthful of smoke in the red-eyed pony's nose. Sech remedies don't work; that pony still limps on three laigs, draggin' the afflicted member mighty pensive. "At last the Lance gives Black Cloud a patronisin' smile an' says that his medicine'll cure the pony sound an' well while you're crackin' off a gun.
Yellow City makes no sech demands of its servants; wherefore, I repeats, that if this Easy Aaron sits mute where he is, we agrees to cut Shoestring's bonds an' restore him to that freedom whereof he makes sech florid use." "'At this, Easy Aaron stands up, puffs out his chest, bows to Waco an' the others, an' evolves 'em a patronisin' gesture signifyin' that their bluff is called.
The last paragraphs, he said, he affectioned and approbated with all his heart. "It is rather tall talkin' that," said he; "I like its patronisin' tone. There is sunthin' goodish in a colonist patronisin' a Britisher. It's turnin' the tables on 'em; it's sarvin' 'em out in their own way.
A sigh of relief goes up, for the glance we gives him shows he's all right sane as Enright clothed an' in his right mind as set fo'th in holy writ. Also, his countenance is a wrinkle of glee. "'Gents, says Dave, an' his air is that patronisin' it would have been exasperatin' only we're so relieved, 'gents, I'm come to seek congratyoolations an' set 'em up.
Rollin' aboot wrap up in furs in a great caur, patronisin' everybody that's daft enough to let theirselves be patronised by her. Onybody could see she's no used to it. She's so ta'en up wi' hersel'. It's kinda play-actin' for her ... An' there's naebody gives less to charitable objects.
The last paragraphs, he said, he affectioned and approbated with all his heart. "It is rather tall talkin' that," said he; "I like its patronisin' tone. There is sunthin' goodish in a colonist patronisin' a Britisher. It's turnin' the tables on 'em; it's sarvin' 'em out in their own way.
Why, when I met her on Sunday afternoon, she was that patronisin' you'd have thought she'd got a place in Windsor Castle. Would she come an' have a cup of tea? Oh dear, no! Hadn't time! The Princess of Wales, I suppose, was waitin' round the corner! Having so relieved her mind, Mrs. Byass laughed with a genuine gaiety which proved how little malice there was in her satire.
'E thought I never read the papers, so 'e kindly lent me his very own Jerrold's Weekly an' 'e explained it to me as patronisin' as a as a militia subaltern doin' Railway Staff Officer. 'E's a left-over from Majuba one of the worst kind, an' 'earin' the evidence as I did, I don't exactly blame 'im. It was this way."
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