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"Then it was like his uncommon impudence to order my officers about, squire," said the captain gruffly, but without so much of his former fierceness. "Hah!" ejaculated the drinker, as he drained the tin; "never knowed water was so good before. Thank-ye, mister. Ketch hold."
Sir, I shall repay you at my earliest leisure, and in the meanwhile allow me to say, that I shall be proud of the honour of your acquaintance." "Thank-ye, old boy," said Dartmore, putting on his glove before he accepted the offered hand of his new friend, which, though it was tendered with great grace and dignity, was of a marvellously dingy and soapless aspect.
Dear, dear me! 'You 'aven't bin much in the country p'r'aps? sez I. 'I'm always in the country, 'e sez 'I motor everywhere, but I've missed the cuckoo somehow! An' then the chauffy puts the machine right, an' he jumps in an' gives me a shillin'. 'Thank-ye, my man! sez 'e 'I'm glad you told me 'twas a real cuckoo! Hor er hor er hor er!" And Peke gave vent to a laugh peculiarly his own.
There is a stone in the spout so as he can't squeeze his way out, for he'll go through any hole a'most." "Yes; put it right up in the dark corner at the far end." "Right, sir. And you owe me five shillin'." "No, it's to your friend." "All the same, sir. Thank-ye." "I'm afraid he has cheated me," said Mercer thoughtfully, as we walked away.
If you give him anything, he says, `Thank-ye, and if you don't, he never seems to mind. He knows boys haven't always got any money. I wish Magglin would go right away."
"Do you wish me to come back and thrash you, Tom Mercer," said the tall boy, with a lordly manner. "No, sir, thank-ye, sir; please don't, and I'll never do so no more, sir." "Miserable beggar," said Burr major. "Here, Dicksee, come down the field and bowl for me. Bring five or six little uns to field." "Yah! Tailor!" said Mercer, as his bully marched out.
I wouldn't ask you, sir, but I am so hungry, sir." "Let's give him a shilling, Tom," I said; "I'll be half." "Oh, very well," cried Mercer; and as I was banker that time, I placed a shilling in the man's very dirty hand. "Thank-ye, sir," he said. "Then that makes three left, but I won't ask you for them to-day." "That's the worst of getting in debt," said Mercer, "and not keeping account of it.
I gave the required coin, and Mr Magglin spat on it, spun it in the air, caught it, and placed it in his pocket. "Thank-ye," he said. "Got any birds for me?" "Nay, nary one; but I knows of a beauty you'd give your ears to get." "What is it?" cried Mercer eagerly. "All bootiful green, with a head as red as carrots." "Get out! Gammon! Think I don't know better than that?
"Here, put your biscuits in your pocket, Burr," cried Mercer, "and we'll go on now." Saying which, he set the example, finished his ginger-beer, and made the keeper's daughter smile by declaring it was better than ever. "Glad you like it, sir; and of course you know I didn't mean you, as I've trusted before, and will again, because you always pay." "Thank-ye. I know whom you mean," he replied.
"What with marchin' and zeribakin' and the sun upon me tank since four this mornin', I'm dead for food and buried for water. I ain't no bloomin' salamanker to be grilled and say thank-ye, and I ain't no bloomin' camomile to bring up me larder and tap me tank when Coolin's commissaryat hasn't no orders." "Shure ye'll run better impty, Billy boy," said Connor.
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