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The morning sun that had long been paling the lamps struck the red beard and blind sunken eyes; struck, too, a heavy circlet of gold studded with raw turquoises, that Carnehan placed tenderly on the battered temples. "You be'old now," said Carnehan, "the Emperor in his 'abit as he lived the King of Kafiristan with his crown upon his head. Poor old Daniel that was a monarch once!"
If I choose to drink a little, why shouldn't I? I've seen many a gentleman drunk formly, and peraps have the abit from them. I ain't a-goin' to leave this house, old feller, and shall I tell you why? The house is my house, every stick of furnitur' in it is mine, excep' your old traps, and your shower-bath, and your wig-box. I've bought the place, I tell you, with my own industry and perseverance.
"I forget," she said. "It is a bad 'abit. You see. I keep my promise. I make ze return call. And 'ow kind of you to see me." "It didn't occur to you that I might refuse," he told her. "No, that's true. I never thought about it. You 'ave a leetle time for me, hein?" "About ten minutes," he said. He assumed a very professional attitude on the other side of his table.
Send someone around to take the dog-cart, and as soon as he comes, take this gentleman inside until your mistress rings. Understand?" "I understand, y'r worship." "Then be as brisk as you can, for the horse is fresh to-day." "He 'as aperiently been workin' hisself into a lather, y'r worship," said Butts. "Which I 'ave noticed, sir, your 'abit or, as I may say, your custom of bringin' 'im in cool."
"What?" came in a thunderous voice from the lower berth, and Jenkins, craning her head turtle-wise over the edge of her bed, called back in a tremulous squeak: "Hi honly said as 'ow hit were a bad 'abit, ma'am!" "Hump!" was the answer. "See that you don't do it yourself. I've got my umbrella here ready to punch you if you do." A titter ran from seat to seat.
I am a Catholique, you is a schismatique; you thing it is wrong to dring some coffee well, then, it is wrong; you thing it is wrong to make the sugah to ged the so large price well, then, it is wrong; I thing it is right well, then, it is right; it is all 'abit; c'est tout. What a man thing is right, is right; 'tis all 'abit.
"She wasn't like some of those ladees I've 'ad aboard. She was a proper salt-water lass. She loved to 'ear my yarns of the sea. When she was big with child an' I ashore, I 'ad the 'abit o' droppin' in o' afternoons and 'avin' a slice of 'am or chicken out o' the safe. Afa ran 'er bloody show for 'er, an' it cost 'er a bloody fortune. I used to lie for 'er to 'ear 'er laugh.
He had called her a vain ambitious cold-hearted woman, who thought that her voice and her beauty could not be beaten. My reflections were interrupted by the policeman. "The lady," he remarked, "has lost her voice sudden-like. Now I lost my 'abit of arresting people sudden-like too. I lost it this morning.
"I'll trouble you to do the writin'," said Tilda, laying a sheet of paper before Sam after she had chosen a pen and unsnapped the ink-case. "Why not Mortimer?" he protested feebly. "I wouldn' make Arguin' a 'abit, if I was you." Sam collapsed and took the pen from her, after eyeing the palms of his hands as though he had a mind to spit on them.
The ancient Gauls, says Sidonius Apollinaris, wore their hair long before and the hinder part of the head shaved, a fashion that begins to revive in this vicious and effeminate age. The Romans used to pay the watermen their fare at their first stepping into the boat, which we never do till after landing: "Dum aes exigitur, dum mula ligatur, Tota abit hora."
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