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However, he could still speak a few words, heavy as his heart was. "I have to congratulate you," said he to Bertram, "and I do it with all my heart." There was very little heart in the tone in which this was spoken; but then, what could be expected? "Thank'ee, old fellow, I'm sure you do. Come, Wilkinson, give us your hand. It's better to have it all out at once.
Mrs. Quigley, who went to the door with the offer of a seed of fire, found it shut, and a voice inside called, "as onmannerly as you plase," "No, we've got matches;" whereupon another voice, further in the interior, quavered, "Thank'ee kindly, ma'am." So she departed little wiser than she had come.
Choose a spot that you can easily find again somewhere in the heart of the bush, and bury it there, where nobody can see what you are about." "Thank'ee sir; I will. I think I know a good place not far off," said the fellow; and therewith, giving a sea-scrape with his foot, he turned away and left us.
'I ain't a man of many words, but I take it very kind of you to be so friendly, and above-board. You'll excuse me if I've been at all intruding, will you? said the Captain. 'Not at all, returned the other. 'Thank'ee.
Field's eye rolls enjoyingly, for this man is a notorious begging-letter writer. Good night, my lads! Good night, Mr. Field, and thank'ee, sir! Clear the street here, half a thousand of you! Cut it, Mrs. Stalker none of that we don't want you! Rogers of the flaming eye, lead on to the tramps' lodging-house! A dream of baleful faces attends to the door. Now, stand back all of you!
'I wish, cried Mrs Lupin, 'there were twenty boxes, Mr Pinch, that I might have 'em all. 'Thank'ee, said Tom. 'It's like you. Good-bye. Good-bye.
"No, thank'ee, sir," said I, amidst my sobbings, "I want to go home." "But you are to get down here, however," said my evil-omened inviter. "Your boxes are all off the coach, and the coachman wants to go forward." "So do I." "It's excessively droll this hi, hi, hi as sure as my name's Saltseller, it is excessively droll.
"Thank'ee, Sir Gervaise; we'll endeavour to straighten the slick, since you will have it so; though, I confess I get tired of seeing every thing to-day, just as we had it yesterday." "Yes yes that's the way with most of these St. James cruisers," continued the vice-admiral, as he rowed away. "They want a fashionable tailor to rig a man-of-war, as they are rigged themselves.
The question is: Which side cabin or forecastle do you intend to be on? If you choose to join me, I will do what I can for you; and if you elect to throw in your lot with those murderers for'ard, I will still bear you in mind, so far as I can, consistently with the lady's and my own safety." "Thank'ee, sir," answered the fellow. "If I might make so bold, sir, what do you intend to do?"
"Thank'ee, Captain Cuffe, we like it in the gun-room, and got off a fresh cask or two this morning, while the court was sitting. So they tell me, sir, his lordship has put his name to it, and that this Frenchman is to swing from our fore-yard-arm some time to-morrow?" "It stands so on paper, Winchester; but if he confess where his lugger lies, all will go smoothly enough with him.
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