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I would find Lutuf Ullah, my partner. 'The deuce you did? And you didn't bother your head about it? 'Pon my word, it's just almost as well that I met you. What were they like, eh? 'They were only fakirs. They will no more than take a little grain, perhaps, from one of the trucks. There are many up the line. The State will never miss the dole. I came here seeking for my partner, Lutuf Ullah.
"I'm sorry for Sir Edmund, but I back Blairgowrie which is jolly handsome behaviour, since he has written some uncommon nasty things about me. 'Pon my word, Hal, I'm right glad that they refused us our siege-guns, and left us here tied by the leg for the hot weather." Gerrard looked at him in astonishment.
He turned 'pon en sudden an' sez: 'Praise God, praise the Lard o' Hosts, my sons, here's Tom, here's my lad as us thot weer drownded! Then he kissed that beast, an' it licked his faace, an' he cried that iron sawl cried like a wummon!
"'Twould be difficult, in some cases," thought many present. "'Pon honour, di'monds are cursed expensive things, I know!" said Heathcock. "But, be that as it may," whispered he to the lady, though loud enough to be heard by others, "I've laid a damned round wager, that no woman's diamonds married this winter, under a countess, in Lon'on, shall eclipse Lady Isabel Heathcock's! and Mr.
"No more was it Pa; it was that Jude what beat me most to a jelly." This was startling enough to awaken a new interest. Jude was too lazy on general principles to reduce any one to jelly unless the provocation had been great. "What divilment was you up to?" Filmer asked with a leer. "I didn't do nothing! 'Pon my soul, I didn't. I swear!" This Billy did, fervently and fluently. The children of St.
"No," replied the F.A.N.Y., "not exactly." "Red Cross then?" "Well, not exactly. It's like this," she explained: "We work for the Red Cross and the cars are theirs, but we are attached to the second army; we draw our rations from the army and we're called F.A.N.Y.S." "'Pon my soul," he cried, "you're neither fish, flesh, nor fowl, but you're thundering good red herrings!"
I know I'm a sinful, wicked wummon, an' I'm heart-broke day an' night for the shame I've brot 'pon my folks. I'll trouble 'e no more if 'e will awnly say the word. Please, please, faither, forgive." She stood without moving, as did he. Uncle Chirgwin watched silently. Mrs. Tregenza made some stir at the fire to conceal her anxiety.
I drew it from memory, 'pon my soul." "She'll be immensely gratified, I'm sure." "For heaven's sake, Les, don't be such a fool as to show her the thing," cried Booth in consternation. "She'd never understand." "Oh, you needn't worry. She has a fine sense of humour." Booth didn't know whether to laugh or scowl.
Willoughby, after an eloquent and pathetic appeal "think how the poor child will be talked about!" "Well, really ah 'pon my life," said Hawbury, with his eyes still wandering over toward Ethel, "I'm sure I don't ah share your views altogether, Mrs. Willoughby; for ah there are times, you know, when a fellow finds it very uncommonly desirable runaway matches, you know, and all that sort of thing.
The Marquis of Granby having returned from the army in Germany, travelled with all possible expedition from the English port at which he landed to London, and finding on his arrival that the king was at Windsor, he proceeded there in his travelling-dress; where desiring to be instantly introduced to his majesty, a certain lord came forward, who said he hoped the noble marquis did not mean to go into the presence of his majesty in so improper a habit, adding, "'Pon my honour, my lord, you look more like a groom than a gentleman."
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