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She had looked forward vaguely, and now the position was suddenly defined by the arrival of Joe's letter, with all its future phases clear-cut, cold and terrible. "My baaby's comin' just then. An' that's what'll fall 'pon his ear fust thing. Oh, if us could awnly tell en afore he comes so he might knaw 'tis all chaanged! 'Twould be easier for en, lovin' me that keen.
He lay back, with tightly closed eyes, while Braden counted the package of five hundred dollar bank-notes. "There are fifty thousand dollars here, grandfather," said the young man huskily. "'Pon my soul, they are more honest than I imagined. Well, well, the world is getting better." "What shall I do with this money, sir? You shouldn't have it lying around loose with all these—"
I should quite have enjoyed watching it if Sir Lionel had been a stranger, but knowing him somehow made me feel 'pon honour not to look, and rather restless. I do believe that, compared with some of these men, who've been at the other end of the world for years doing important political things, Samson with his hair all cropped off was adamant to Lovely Woman!
"Miss Nugent is not a lady's beauty," said Mrs. Dareville. "Has she any fortune, colonel?" "'Pon honour, don't know," said the colonel. "There's a son, somewhere, is not there?" said Lady Langdale. "Don't know, 'pon honour," replied the colonel. "Yes at Cambridge not of age yet," said Mrs. Dareville. "Bless me! here is Lady Clonbrony come back. I thought she was gone half an hour ago!"
I've heard father speak about it many a time," said I. "But, 'pon my word, Mick, I can't precisely recollect if it was the gallant Rodney or Sir Ralph Abercromby; for both of 'em were busy in those parts at the time, and pretty well made their mark too!
'Pon honour, I believe you are afraid of marriage because it's marriage. By my life, there's naught to dread. A little giving here and taking there, and it's easy. And when a woman is all that's good, to a man, it can be done without fear or trembling. Even the Cure would tell you that." "Ah, I know, I know," she said, in a voice half painful, half joyous. "I know that it is so.
'I be a dyin' woman, I tell 'ee, an' got the gift o' tongues. . . . And your 'natomies and fishes' innards may be all very well, but you want a wife to look after the money an' tell the men to wipe their sea-boots 'pon the front mat.
The room hasn't changed so far as I can see. The same old tiger-skin there, the rugs, the books, the pictures the leopard's skin here and the yes, the lamp is just where it used to be. 'Pon my soul, I believe you are standing just as you were when I last saw you here. It's uncanny. One might think you had not moved in all these months!"
Charles Kitterbell was one of the most credulous and matter-of-fact little personages that ever took to himself a wife, and for himself a house in Great Russell-street, Bedford-square. ‘No, but, uncle, ’pon my life you must—you must promise to be godfather,’ said Mr. Kitterbell, as he sat in conversation with his respected relative one morning. ‘I cannot, indeed I cannot,’ returned Dumps.
If the debt is not acknowledged during the interval, it's outlawed. And now, 'pon my life, my dear fellow, I really don't know but that I've jumbled up some fragments of English law with American. I felt that I was muddy, and so I thought I'd ask you." "Don't know any more about it than about the antediluvians." "It's an important point, and I should like to have it looked up."
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