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The infant shrieked wildly when I looked at it; but its mother stopped its mouth with one of those what-do-you-call-'ems that are stuck on the end of a flat bottle containing sweetened milk, and, after sputtering and gurgling in a vain attempt to keep on squalling, it subsided and went vigorously to work.
Fenwick, he said in a sepulchral voice, stretching out two fingers, so, as if I were one of the what-do-you-call-'ems who go to sleep when he bids them, 'Marm, you know Mrs. Ashleigh? You correspond with her? 'Yes, Mr. Vigors; is there any crime in that? You look as if there were. 'No crime, marm, said the man, quite seriously. 'Mrs.
Fenwick, he said in a sepulchral voice, stretching out two fingers, so, as if I were one of the what-do-you-call-'ems who go to sleep when he bids them, 'Marm, you know Mrs. Ashleigh? You correspond with her? 'Yes, Mr. Vigors; is there any crime in that? You look as if there were. 'No crime, marm, said the man, quite seriously. 'Mrs.
"I'm afraid you will have to, comrade both on us like Englishmen. But if we are to be shot for furriners I should like it to have been as soldiers, and by soldiers who know how to use their guns, and not by Spanish what-do-you-call-'ems robbers and thieves with little short blunderbusters." There was a few moments' pause, during which hurried talking went on.
Here's one of his notes, with What-do-you-call-'ems that rum fellow Bayham's name as drawer. A nice pair, ain't they? Pooh! I shall never touch 'em. And so it was at first. The people liked Honeyman. All the nobs came to hear him. Now the speculation ain't so good. He's used up. A chap can't be expected to last for ever.
He wants to be told without asking told, I mean, that each of the stories, those that have come to him, is a fraud and a libel. Qui s'excuse s'accuse, don't they say? so that do you see me breaking out to him, unprovoked, with four or five what-do-you-call-'ems, the things mother used to have to prove in court, a set of neat little 'alibis' in a row?
I hope Miss Clinton ain't considering getting married to that man. He's one of these here what-do-you-call-'ems? Er " "Sybarites?" said Codge, who had picked up a good deal from conversations with Peter Snipe. "That ain't the word," said Mr. Mott. "Now, I'll lay awake all night trying to think of that word. Damn the luck!"
"I wonder what's become of Uncle Paul," muttered the boy. "Have I lost him, or has he lost me? What stuff! One's only got to go down the stream, and he's sure to be there somewhere, dipping for his what-do-you-call-'ems hydras and germs and buds, and the rest of them. But oh, what a jolly morning it is, and what a jolly place Dartmoor is now the sun shines!
They 're an old Westmoreland family. But she lives in Kensington. She has one of those jolly old houses in Kensington Square. Historic, romantic, poetic Kensington Square, where burning Sappho loved and sang, and Thackeray wrote the What-do-you-call-'ems. Who fears to speak of Ninety-eight? That's her number.
Toole and the Colonel left Miss Sally's with the attorney well pleased, and his enigmatic smile rested on his face as he led the Colonel to his office. He handed him a chair, and made him take a cigar, and then turned and faced him. "Now," he said, "what are you going to do with those what-do-you-call-'ems?"
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