a-rovin

Updated: May 13, 2025

"'Let's hope, says he, 'it may be your nat'ral place afore long. "She jist smiled back wi'out speakin'; an' all the time we was havin' our tea, I could see her eyes a-rovin' round the room, here an' there an' everywhere. The teapot had a chip out of the spout, an' she did jist pass her finger along it. "'T'ud be easy to get a new un, says Brother John, for he knowed what she meant.

M.E. (Mrs. Francis Blundell) Francis - North, South and over the Sea