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An' when Isabella an' me used to read the Bible, nights, I'd allus rayther do 't than be beholden to me own darter. It gets yer through, anyway." "Well, it wor a good word," said Mrs. Patton, blushing and mildly defending herself. "It didn't do none of yer any harm." "Oh, an' before her, miss, I went to a school to another woman, as lived up Shepherd's Row. You remember her, Betsy Brunt?" Mrs.
She's no feyther; he'd been in t' sugar-baking business; but from what Kinraid wrote to old Turner, th' uncle as brought him up at Cullercoats, she's had t' best of edications: can play on t' instrument and dance t' shawl dance; and Kinraid had all her money settled on her, though she said she'd rayther give it all to him, which I must say, being his cousin, was very pretty on her.
James de la Pluche, Esquire, is thus for the fust time a landed propriator or rayther, I should say, is about to reshume the rank & dignity in the country which his Hancestors so long occupied.
I mind when I had the headache, hoo a small steak " "Gae awa for the doctor, rayther," broke in Leeby. Jess started, for sufferers think there is less hope for them after the doctor has been called in to pronounce sentence. "I winna hae the doctor," she said, anxiously.
How are yours, David?" he continued, as they walked to the gate. "Bit of a touch o' rheumatiz in 'em, sir. Ground's rayther damp. Good-night, sir. We'll have him yet." "Good-night," said Tom. "But I say, David, did you have a good nap?" "Good what, sir? Nap? Me have a nap? Why, you don't think as I went to sleep?" "No, I don't think so," cried Tom, laughing.
Or had we ought, rayther, to be up an doin, pluck up our sperrits like men, and go about our important work with energy? Which of these two, my friends? I pause for a reply." This was quite a speech for Captain Corbet, and the effort seemed quite an exhaustive one. He paused some time for a reply; but as no reply was forthcoming, he continued his remarks.
"If yer'll not object, Cap'n," said Lincoln, addressing me in a whisper, "I'd rayther go 'ithout kump'ny. Thar ain't two men I'd like, in a tight fix, better'n Rowl and Chane; but I hev done a smart chance o' trackin' in my time, an' I allers gets along better when I'm by myself." "Very well, Sergeant; as you wish it, go alone. We shall wait for you."
Buckmaster died, leaving nothink; nothink except four ugly daughters by Miss Slamcoe: and her forty pound a year was rayther a narrow income for one of her appytite and pretensions. In an unlucky hour for Shum she met him. He was a widower with a little daughter of three years old, a little house at Pentonwille, and a little income about as big as her own.
"Thank ye, thank ye, my good friend; I'm rayther deaf, but I presume you're inquiring after my wife and daughters they are very well, I thank ye." "Where will you sit at dinner?" rejoins the first speaker, in hopes of a more successful hit. "It is two years since I saw him." "No; where will you sit, sir? I said." "Oh, John? I beg your pardon I'm rayther deaf he's in Jamaica with his regiment."
"'I rayther think he has, said the old gentleman, half testily. "'And can trot a bit, too. "'Twelve Irish miles in fifty minutes, with my weight. Here he looked down at a paunch like a sugar hosghead. "'Maybe he's not bad across a country, said I, rather to humour the old fellow, who, I saw, was proud of his poney.
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