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The situation was relieved by the arrival of the miller, still looking serious. 'I am very much concerned, John; I did not go to the review for nothing. There's a letter a-waiting for me at Budmouth, and I must get it before bedtime, or I shan't sleep a wink. 'I'll go, of course, said John; 'and perhaps Miss Garland would like to see what's doing there to-day?
"Why, what then, Jem? No home, no one to say to him, 'Here's home, here's wife and children a-waiting to love you, oh, sick with waiting to love you! No one to say that, Jem. And him wandering out in the cold, going quick back to the mouth of hell, not knowing how God loved him." "If there is such a one," Jem said, steadily, though his lip trembled, "God will let him know."
The Captain had put on his old militia uniform to do honour to the occasion, and informed the boys that the Colonel was walking up and down the garden a-waiting for 'em, and that the Reg'lars was a'most sober, too, by this time.
"Dear, you're going to see the London sights," Emily comforted her, the tears raining down her own leather-coloured cheeks. "And your own kerridge, and all! And your man in livery a-waiting at the door! And your gentleman that fond of you, he could eat you a'most!"
On Friday he wrote to Jane, telling her to expect him, and, as he walked home from the shop that evening he felt glad that he had overcome the feelings which threatened to make this first visit something of a trial to his self-respect. "There's a telegram a-waiting for you, sir," said Mrs. Wick, as he entered. The telegram contained four words: "Mother ill. Please come."
And so Saurin and Edwards were now on their way to the yard. "Well, gents, have you got the money?" asked Josiah Slam, who admitted them. "I hope so, for I wants to be off, and I'm only a-waiting for that." "No," replied Saurin, "we have not got it; it is not likely. We did not sign that paper until we had lost everything to you, and we shall not have any more till after Easter.
"Never such a man as father for two things cleaving up old dead apple-tree wood and playing the bass-viol. 'A'd pass his life between the two, that 'a would." He stepped to the door and opened it. "Father!" "Ay!" rang thinly from round the corner. "Here's the barrel tapped, and we all a-waiting!"
"Them there pretty feet of your'n will make your fortune yet, and beat Fanny Ellsler!" "Not to mention her pretty face," said a brother fiend, removing his mask. "Her fortune's made already, if she's a mind to take it. There's a gay young city swell a-waiting at the wings to see you home, Miss Monti." "Is it Maynard, the banker's son?" she asked. The second demon nodded.
Bathe, fool, and your eyes will be opened! "That settled it. I'd got an argyment fer 'im now. "'Not me, I says, putting my shirt on agin. 'No beer; no baccy; no wimmen but a lot o' shameless huzzies a-hiding and a-waiting to watch a feller bathe! Not me. I go back besides, I 'ad a bath on'y a few days ago.
Parties who don't keep with the party, and then wants the information repeated, will be considered as another party, and must pay accordingly. Next room, through the white door to the left. Now, sir, we're a-waiting for you! All together, if you please!" But in spite of the good lady, I generally managed to linger behind, or run before, and so to look at things in my own way.
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