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Said Ralph: "Or where shall I sell thee, that I may make the best penny out of my good luck and valiancy?" Bull looked chopfallen: "Nay," said he in a wheedling voice, "thou wilt not sell me, thou? For I deem that thou wilt be a good master to me: and," he broke into sudden heat hereat, "if I have another master I shall surely slay him whate'er betide."
"But, Sanders, ye canna deny but what your rinnin oot o' the kirk that awfu' day was at the bottom o'd a'." "It was so," said Sanders, bravely. "An' ye used to be fond o' Bell, Sanders." "I dinna deny't." "Sanders, laddie," said Sam'l, bending forward and speaking in a wheedling voice, "I aye thocht it was you she likeit." "I had some sic idea mysel," said Sanders.
"You boy have you seen a girl go by here, with a baby?" "Nope," replied Tode, briefly. "How long you be'n settin' here?" "'Bout two weeks," answered the boy, gravely. The woman stormed and blustered, but finding that this made no impression she changed her tactics and began in a wheedling tone, "Now, dearie, you'll help an ol' woman find her baby, won't ye?
You slept last night at the "Saracen's Head." Old M. Yes, please your worship, and I accuse nobody; but at night I had my little money safe, and in the morning it was gone. Land. Gone! gone, indeed, in my house! and this is the way I'm to be treated! Is it so? And this is your gratitude, forsooth! Didn't you tell me that any hole in my house was good enough for you, wheedling hypocrite?
I was better received by Father Castel; but, in the midst of his Jesuitical wheedling I perceived him faithfully to follow one of the great maxims of his society, which is to sacrifice the weak to the powerful. The strong conviction I felt of the justice of my cause, and my natural greatness of mind did not suffer me patiently to endure this partiality.
Could you send me some one to supply your place?" "Oh! as to that matter," replied the housekeeper, still in her wheedling voice, "a day or two more or less! I am not so very particular, and I don't mind attending to the house as long as I remain. At what hour would you wish to dine, Monsieur?"
When wearied out by this sort of thing, I took charge of the proceedings, that I might escape from her agonized groans and grimaces at my extravagance. After choking down her emotion in gulps all the way home, she would at last clasp her hands, and moan in a wheedling voice: "Please, barynya,* how much did you pay that robber?" * Mistress. "Two kopeks* apiece for the eggs.
God forgive me! the horrible fellow was still puffing and panting with the fury of his assault, and already he had fallen into an obsequious, wheedling familiarity like that of an old servant, already he was flattering me on my family connections! I followed him through the house into the stable-yard, where I observed the driver washing the cart in a shed.
It is said that every Arabic word means some form of camel and it seemed possible that Gamell was an Arabic word. The difficulty lay rather in the "all"! Rice broke into a flood of Arabic but gave no orders. The officer repeated his phrase, trying the conversational, wheedling, and minatory tones in turn but it was useless.
"She's an Evringham, an Evringham!" he said. "You may laugh, sir, but what do you think of her wheedling me into sending Zeke up, and then getting him off on the sly with that telegram? I faced him down with it to-night, and Zeke isn't any good at fibbing." "I'll be hanged if I don't think it was a pretty good thing for me," rejoined Mr. Evringham, "and money in my pocket.
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