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She shook her head regretfully. "He call me 'poor little wave' why poor little wave wave that mean water?" she sighed. "I can't know why Frank Sen call me that." But quick-witted Mrs. Holmes guessed the word had been "waif" poor little waif, and she began dimly to comprehend the big-hearted, rough tent-man, who had tried to guard this little foreign maid from the ignorance and evil about her.
Sen; and yet it released him from the trammels which the dissatisfied had hitherto thrust upon him, and gave him, among the remnant, an opportunity to launch out on new projects, and to introduce many religious vagaries, which to most men were striking and, to many, were shocking.
"Previous to the Restoration," to quote further from Count Okuma, "with the exception of the posts sent by the Daimios from their residences at the capital to their territories, there was no regularly established post for the general public and private convenience. Letters had to be sent by any opportunity that occurred, and a single letter cost over 25 sen for a distance of 150 ri.
The child-like voice of Odille was soon heard striking up the first couplet of the chant: "She was young, she was fair, and holy was she; Hena her name, Hena the maid of the Island of Sen." At these words both the hermit and the Vagre lowered their heads, and without noticing the tears that the other was shedding, both wept.
Ladies and gentlemen would put their hands on their sides, and keep them at a distance, these 'sen sens!" And she threw herself into the attitude she had described, and stuck her pretty little arms akimbo, to show how people of her grade would carry themselves in the presence of such common creatures. She really looked very pretty. But the merchant's little daughter became extremely angry.
"Thank you, ma'am, but Muster Melrose gave me the orders a good while sen. There was a cart goin' into Pengarth." Pengarth was the nearest country town, some eight miles away. Mrs. Melrose coloured. "I must tell you what the baby requires," she said, drawing herself up. Mrs. Dixon looked at the speaker impassively, over her spectacles. Mrs.
An' gien ye wad sen' my wauges hame to my mither, sir, ye wad ken 'at I cudna be gauin' stravaguin', and drinkin' whan yer back was turn't." "Well, I'll write to your mother, and see what she says," said Malcolm.
For ae thing, the tailor taks a bit o' 't to mark whaur he's to sen' the shears alang the claith, when he's cuttin oot a pair o' breeks; and again they mix't up wi the clay they tak for the finer kin's o' crockery.
I was boun' to have de funeral fust class. When ole Miss died, I let 'em have dar way, an' ole Aunt Judy had de pow' till her missus, who was hyar, shook her out on't. That was ole Miss Thomas, who stood out agin Miss Dory till she seen de ring. She says to me, says she, 'Does you know whar de chile's fader is? an' says I, 'S'posin' I do? 'Then sen' for him, says she.
He cannot know 'ow 'tis in danger! Ah! sen' him word? I sen' him fo' five time' he sen' back I stay righd there an' not touch nut'n'! Ah! my God! I fine dat varrie te-de-ous, me, yass!" "Is his wife with him?" "Assuredly! You see, dey git 'fraid 'bout dat 'ouse of de Sister', you know?" "No, where is it?" "No?
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