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Yah may bend to th' yoak an ye will I noan used to 't, and an old man doesn't sooin get used to new barthens. I'd rayther arn my bite an' my sup wi' a hammer in th' road! 'Now, now, idiot! interrupted Heathcliff, 'cut it short! What's your grievance? I'll interfere in no quarrels between you and Nelly. She may thrust you into the coal-hole for anything I care.
'He is that, replied Sponge; 'best horse in this country by far. 'The che che chest nut's not a ba ba bad un. I dare say, observed Jack. 'No, he's not, replied Sponge; 'a deuced good un. 'I know a man who's rayther s s s sweet on the b b br brown, observed Jack, squinting frightfully. Sponge sat silent for a few seconds, pretending to be wrapt up in his 'sublime tobacco.
"Here's hopin' a few of 'em may be limpin' 'round this same mornin', and feelin' rayther stiff in the legs," Felix took occasion to remark, as they sat at table, and Andy was again in danger of being foundered by the multitude of good things which the farmer's wife spread thereon, bacon and eggs, fried potatoes, scrapple, puffy biscuits, apple sauce, doughnuts, cold pie, jelly, and finally heaping dishes of light pancakes, which were to be smothered in butter and real maple syrup made on the farm each early spring when the sap was running.
"Yes, sir," resumed Birney, once more taking his place at the desk, "you can now be understood." "Haw! yes, I rayther fancy I can make myself so!" replied Norton. "What, now, do you suppose the papers in question may be worth to your friends?"
"Well," he says, "this seems to be rayther a pressing matter of yours." "Yes," I says, "it IS rayther a pressing matter, and you'll find it a bargain dirt cheap." "I ain't in partickler want of a bargain just now," he says, "but where is it?" "Why," I says, "the turn-out's just outside. Come and look at it." He hasn't any suspicions, and away we go. You never saw such a game in your life!
There's nae risk ava, man: nane to speak o'. Tak her, laddie, tak her, Sanders; it's a grand chance, Sanders. She's yours for the spierin. I'll gie her up, Sanders." "Will ye, though?" said Sanders. "What d'ye think?" asked Sam'l. "If ye wid rayther," said Sanders, politely. "There's my han' on't," said Sam'l. "Bless ye, Sanders; ye've been a true frien' to me."
Larkin continued to stare on him in silence, with his round eyes, for some seconds after. 'In a mad-house! Pooh, pooh! incredible! Pooh! impossible quite impossible. Did either Miss Lake or the captain use the word mad-house? 'Well, no. Or any other word lunatic asylum, or a bedlam, or or any other word meaning the same thing? 'Well, I can't say, Sir, as I remember; but I rayther think not.
"Well, then, what say you all to a game of whist?" inquired the last speaker, glancing around the table. "Don't know much about the game," bluntly answered the pork-dealer. "Mout play it on a pinch rayther than spoil sport; but whoever hez me for a partner 'll have to keep a sharp look-out for himself, I reckon." "I guess you know the game as well as I do," replied the one who had proposed it.
"And William sent the baby to West Kensington to escape infection?" "Took him, he did." "Against his wife's wishes?" "Na-o!" "You said she was dying for want of the child?" "Wouldn't she rayther die than have the kid die?" "Don't speak so heartlessly, child. Why does William not go straight home from the club? Does he go to West Kensington to see it?" "'Tain't a hit, it's an 'e. Course he do."
'I do mean that, Sammy, replied his father, 'and I vish you could ha' seen how tight he held on by the sides wen he did get up, as if he wos afeerd o' being precipitayted down full six foot, and dashed into a million hatoms. He tumbled in at last, however, and avay ve vent; and I rayther think I say I rayther think, Samivel that he found his-self a little jolted ven ve turned the corners.
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