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O'Driscol, you're well known! to have more o' the divil than the man in you beggin' your pardon, sir, for the freedoms, I'm takin' but it's all for your own good I'm doin' it. Have you e're a mouse-hole about your place, sir?" "A-hem! Why, Cannie," asked O'Driscol, with an expression of strong alarm in his face "why do you ask so so singular a question as that?"
Grandpa coughed, and coughed again, and raised his eyes helplessly to the window. "Looks some like showers," said he. "A-hem! ahem! Looks mightily to me like showers, over yonder." "Thar', r'aly, husband! I must say I feel mortified for ye," said Grandma.
"Why, I I a-hem I wished to have the pleasure, Cannie, of of shaking hands, with the honest fellow; was not that it, Alick?" "Hands, or thumbs, or something that way," replied Alick; "threatening him, as it were." "Shaking hands, upon honor, Alick thumb to thumb, you know." "Well, Mr.
"What do you think of my typist, Burton?" He was putting a dish of make-believe before me it is a meatless day my one-legged cook is an artist but he thinks me a fool because I won't let him cheat our want of legs makes us friendly though. "And with a brother in the trade I could get Monsieur chickens and what he would wish!" he expostulates each week. "A-hem" Burton croaked.
'Well, I must own, said the aedile Pansa, 'that your house, though scarcely larger than a case for one's fibulae, is a gem of its kind. How beautifully painted is that parting of Achilles and Briseis! what a style! what heads! what a-hem! 'Praise from Pansa is indeed valuable on such subjects, said Clodius, gravely. 'Why, the paintings on his walls! Ah! there is, indeed, the hand of a Zeuxis!
"A-hem " coughed the dealer in small wares the speech of the old wagoner grating harshly upon his senses; for if the Yankee be proud of anything, it is of his country its enterprise, its institutions; and of these, perhaps, he has more true and unqualified reason to be pleased and proud than any other one people on the face of the globe.
"Why, sure you know, Father Philemy, that he wasn't what they call a dhrinking man: once a quarther, or so, he sartinly did take a jorum; and except at these times, he was very sober. But God look upon us, yer Reverence or upon myself, anyway; for if he's to suffer for his doings that way, I'm afeard we'll have a troublesome reck'ning of it." "Hem, a-hem!
'Poor girl, you certainly must have change of scene at this rate, said Mrs. Loveday. 'I suppose I must, murmured the dutiful daughter. For some minutes nothing further occurred to disturb Anne's serenity. Then a slow, quiet 'a-hem' came from the obscurity of the apartment. 'What, Bob? How long have you been there? inquired Mrs. Loveday. 'Not long, said the lieutenant coolly.
I only hope she may never repent of the game! A-hem. Good morning. Saying this, Mountclere slightly bowed to his relations, and marched out of the church with dignity; but it was told afterwards by the coachman, who had no love for Mountclere, that when he stepped into the fly, and was as he believed unobserved, he was quite overcome with fatuous rage, his lips frothing like a mug of hot ale.
It took but a few moments to get his oars, and again the girls turned up stream. "Who is going to give them to him," asked Louise, with a foolish giggle. "We are noble scouts we are!" mocked Cleo. "Mine be the task! A-hem!" and here a fit of laughter spoiled the proposed effect. "Here are your oars!" called Grace, before the others could realize what she was about. But no boy answered.
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