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"'Pon my word, Flo," said McLeod, "your pantomime has been most effective, but I have doubts as to whether he understands you to have invited him to be our hunter, or commanded him to go about his business." "I think we've seen the last of him," said Kenneth, somewhat gloomily. "He will return," said Flora, with decision.
And yet hum!" "And a very creditable pair o' black eyes, Jervas." "True, George! Our youth has been observing life at close quarters, it seems." "B'gad he has so, brother!" chuckled uncle George. "Tells me he's spent all his money on women!" My uncle Jervas very nearly dropped his eyeglass. "Now 'pon my everlasting " his voice failed and he gazed at me quite dumbfounded for once.
"Confidence!" echoed the Major, ruefully. "But where is my brother's confidence in me, when I tell him? 'Pon my life, I can't tell him!" "There is not the slightest need; I have accurate information from the mine, which next week will raise the shares to ten per cent, premium, and then, since you are so determined to sell out that most promising investment" "I will, as sure as I live.
"I won't do it no more," begged Pewee "'pon my word and honor I won't." "Oh, you don't gits off dat away no more, a'ready. You know what I'll giff you when I git you home, you leedle ruffen. I shows you how to vite, a'ready." And the king disappeared down the street, begging like a spaniel, and vowing that he "wouldn't do it no more."
'Twas hard to get used to it at first; but 'pon may word now, may dear, it comes as nat'ral as swearing. But there! go on with the story. Where were we?" Valmai was a little bewildered by the captain's reminiscences. "Well, we had just come to where the girl, or rather the young wife, had gone to live with her other uncle.
"Sir!" cried Margery, struggling to free herself from the grasp of his strong hand, "it is dastardly, it is cowardly to summon me here to subject me to insult." "'Pon my honor, I want to be friendly, but you won't have it so you seem determined to kick up a row. Come, now, be friendly; sit down here and we'll talk it over." "Unhand me!" cried Margery in terror.
Does not your La'ship think the task would be rather difficult?" "O Lard, yes," cried Lady Louisa; "I declare I'd as soon teach my parrot to talk Welsh." "Ha! ha! ha! Admirable;-'Pon honour, your La'ship's quite in luck to-day; but that, indeed, your La'ship is every day.
"Come on!" The Prince went. The brilliantly-lighted auditorium of the Palace Theatre. Everywhere a murmur and stir. The orchestra is playing a selection. In the stalls fair women and brave men converse in excited whispers. One catches sentences here and there. "Quite a boy, I believe!" "How perfectly sweet!" "'Pon honour, Lady Gussie, I couldn't say.
'It's really too much to ask of me, Rose. 'If you care for me, you will. ''Pon my honour, quite impossible! 'You refuse, Ferdinand? 'My London tailor 'd find me out, and never forgive me. This pleasantry stopped her soft looks. Why she wished him to be with her, she could not have said. For a thousand reasons: which implies no distinct one something prophetically pressing in her blood.
"These two weeks past have I been trying to beat some sense into the fools, and 'pon my word, 't is enough to drive a man crazy to see them." He paused to gulp down a glass of wine, of which I thought he had already drunk too much. "I saw them this forenoon," cried Preston, who was sitting at Allen's right, "and was like to die of laughing.
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