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"Thee'st not half so good reason to think as Adam 'ull go away as to think he'll stay with thee. He may say such a thing when he's in wrath and he's got excuse for being wrathful sometimes but his heart 'ud never let him go.
John Smauker. 'Gentlemen, my friend Mr. Weller. 'Sorry to keep the fire off you, Weller, said Mr. Tuckle, with a familiar nod. 'Hope you're not cold, Weller. 'Not by no means, Blazes, replied Sam. 'It 'ud be a wery chilly subject as felt cold wen you stood opposite. You'd save coals if they put you behind the fender in the waitin'-room at a public office, you would.
And father said, half to himself like, 'Nelly wouldn't be sorry if Miss Nancarrow 'ud come and be with her always, and I dare say somebody else wouldn't be sorry, either. 'Why, you silly boy, he meant you, of course. 'Oh no, he didn't. Think I can't tell what he meant! 'Run off to bed! I think I hear your father coming in.
Will Baker's lad comes to help me in a morning, and we get as much cleaning done in one hour, without any fuss, as a woman 'ud get done in three, and all the while be sending buckets o' water after your ankles, and let the fender and the fire-irons stand in the middle o' the floor half the day for you to break your shins against 'em.
I know'd well enough just how it 'ud be. But I couldn't get off. They couldn't get no one to take on my duty. I tell you I ain't had ten minutes' sleep this last five days. My little chap's ill pewmonia, the Doctor says and there's no one but me and 'is little sister to do for him. That's where it is. The gell must 'ave her sleep. Dangerous? Yes, I believe you. Now go and split on me if you like."
How she accomplished this feat it is impossible to say, but the fact remains that she did accomplish it, and perhaps Jane Crab delved to the root of the matter in the terse comment which the circumstances elicited from her: "Miss Tennant has a way with her that 'ud make they stone sphinxes gallop round the desert if so be she'd a mind they should."
I've heard of cases where a man's paid blackmail for years and years, and been no better for it in the end." "Well he's coming here tomorrow afternoon some time," said Cotherstone. "We'd better see him together. After all, a hundred a year a couple of hundred a year 'ud be better than exposure." Mallalieu drank off his whisky and pushed the glass aside. "I'll consider it," he remarked.
"But ah sure, woman dear, where at all 'ud we come by that, wid the crathur of a goat scarce wettin' the bottom of the pan?" and to draw reassuring omens from the avidity with which the invalid grabbed at a sugared crust. In fact, she was less than five minutes out of her house; but when she returned to it, she found it empty.
'Theer's no call to be so uppish But if I tek a chance like that I expect to be paid for it. 'Two pound ud mek it wuth your while to do more than that. 'I'll dew it, said the wizard. 'Give us the money? 'Wheer's the stuff? 'Why, it ain't made yet. D'you think as I can percure a precious hessence like that all of a minute? 'Then mek it, an' I'll gie you the money.
This was evident enough, for some of the animals were at the moment walking out of the willows; and we could see the wet clay glistening upon their flanks, and the saliva glancing down from their jaws. "How will we get at them, Rube?" asked Seguin; "can we approach them, do you think?" "I doubt not, cap. The grass 'ud hardly kiver us, an thur a-gwine out o' range o' the bushes." "How then?