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"Gems are sometimes found in the most unlikely looking places. I did not expect the landscape to be distinguished by any unusual characteristics; did you?" "'Pon my word I don't know," replied Grosvenor; "but somehow I expected it to look very different from this. After all, however, what does the beauty or otherwise of the landscape matter, so long as the rubies are really here?
'Is ut slow, says I, 'doctor? and draws a bottle of champagne. He could hardly stand before his first glass. 'Pon my hon'r, my lady, ye naver saw s'ch a change in a mortal bein. Pole, didn't ye go 'ha, ha! now, and seem to be nut-cracking with your fingers? He did; and if ye aver saw an astonished doctor! 'Why, says I, 'doctor, ye think ut's maguc!
Well, when the gout reached Key Pinsent's stomach and he went off like the snuff of a candle at the age of forty-two, she was left unprovided, with a son of thirteen to maintain or go 'pon the parish.
And she said he started without weapons or tools on this coast! . . . Yet for him to have won her No, no, it's impossible! impossible! American or not, she's a lady thoroughbred! He's a true stone, but in the rough uncut, unpolished! A girl of her breeding He's worth it, 'pon my word, he is; though I never would have fancied that she, of all girls She's so different.
Everything is keen and hard upon the eye to-day; the sky is full of rain and the sea is a wild harmony in gray and silver." "Iss, the cleeves be callin' this marnin'. 'Tis a sort o' whisper as comes to a body's ear, an' it means that the high hills knaws the rain is nigh. An' they tell it wan to t'other, and moans it mournful over the valleys 'pon the wind.
So do come into town and dine with me." "I think I'd like to, thanks," said Julia; "I'm not quite sure." "Why aren't you quite sure?" "I might be bored with you. How do I know?" Rokeby looked at her with an astonished respect and a glim of his saving humour. "So you might; er I hadn't thought of it; but 'pon my word, I'll do my best. Won't you come if I guarantee that?"
Speck in seizing the last potato; observing also, and in the same philosophical and generalizing spirit as Mr. Bullion: "The great thing in this country is to be always beforehand. Discovery and invention, promptitude and decision, that's your go! 'Pon my life, one picks up sad vulgar sayings among the natives here! 'That's your go! shocking! What would your poor father say?
But I want to have it behind me an' you in front. Do 'e see? This out o' hand, then it 's my turn again. Keepin' me waitin' 'pon such a point be tu small an' womanish for a fight between men. 'T is your turn to hit, Jan Grimbal, an' theer 's no guard 'gainst the stroke, so if you're a man, hit an' have done with it." "Ah! you don't like the thought of waiting!" "No, I do not.
Turning with a shout, he brought the soldierly, middle-aged gentleman about-face with scant ceremony. "Hey! Colonel Castleton! See who's here! Doesn't this bowl you over completely?" Colonel Castleton, sallow, ascetic, deliberate in his movements, raised his glass to his eye as he came toward them. "'Pon my soul!" burst from his astonished lips a second afterward.
Hope your honours has passed a comfortable night," with a ghastly grin at his own facetiousness. Then, with considerably more seriousness of manner, he continued: "Well, young uns, Farmer or Mister Farmer, I should say has been axing arter you, and his instructions am that you may now go 'pon deck. But hark 'e, my bullies, keep your weather eyes a-liftin' and a stopper upon your tongues.
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