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Updated: June 19, 2025
"Emily Pill's my name, and I ain't ashamed of it, me having been cook to Miss Loach for years an' years and years. But if you had wished to behave like a servant, as you are," added she with emphasis, "why didn't you run round by the veranda and so get to the back where the kitchen is. But you're one of the new class of servants, Miss Grant, 'aughty and upsetting."
Where is the man who in a strange land has not suffered rather than reveal his ignorance before a shopkeeper? When I was first in England and could not compute readily in shillings and pence, I would toss out a gold piece when I made a purchase and assume a 'igh and 'aughty mien.
Sick persons must be amused: and Tilda, after trying the patient unsuccessfully with a few jokes from the repertoire of her own favourite clown, had fallen back upon "I love my love" about the only game known to her that dispensed with physical exertion. "Sleepin', are you? . . . Well, I'll chance it and go on. I 'ate 'im because he's 'aughty or 'igh-born, if you like "
For a bad wicked face it was, as ever I did see; whether by reason of the kick I gave, and a splinter in the shin, or by habit of the mind, a proud and 'aughty and owdacious face, and, as I said to my poor wife, reminded me a little of our Master George; not in his ordinary aspect, to be sure, but as Master George might look if he was going to the devil.
I thought you would be proud and 'aughty by this time." " Not to my friends," she murmured., " Not to my friends. I'm always the same and I never forget. Rufus." " Never forget what? " asked Coleman. " If anybody does me a favour I never forget it as long as I live," she answered fervently. " Oh, you mustn't be so sentimental, Nora.
"Also go call me a tikka-gharri and select a very senior horse, blind, angular, withered, wilted, and answering to the name, most obviously, of Skin-and-Grief lest I be taken by the Grizzly-Goslings for a down-trodden plutocrat and a brother and not seen for the fierce and 'aughty oppressor that I am." Public conveyance. "Sahib?" "Tikka-gharri lao, you lazy little 'ound!
"Why, Bella, was in 'ere th' other night, so I says to her, 'Bella, I says, 'didn't you never hear of a girl called Ida Starr? I says. 'Course I did, she says. 'One o' the 'igh an' 'aughty lot, an' she lived by herself somewhere in the Strand. So it's just as I told you." "But what is she doing now?" "You say she's turned modest."
You're proud of the wonderful influence you exercise over me. And all I get out of you is a 'aughty smile." "The fact is," declared Mrs. Mills, "you get too much attention from the ladies. It spoils you!" "See how she spurns me," he cried, turning to Gertie. "You wouldn't treat a gentleman like that, would you, missy? You wouldn't play football with an honest, loving heart, I'm sure.
There's visitors downstairs that most beauteous young lady who spoke to me yesterday at Aylmer House, and a lady alongside of 'er as 'u'd make yer 'eart quake. Ef Queen Victoria was alive I'd say yes, it was 'erself. Never did I mark such a sweepin' and 'aughty manner. They're fine folks, both of 'em, and no mistake." "Did they give their names?" asked Mrs. Martin. "I didn't even arsk, mum.
"I shouldn't 'arf wonder, from the look of him, if he wasn't the 'aughty kind of a feller who'd cleave you to the bazooka for tuppence with his bloomin' falchion. I'm goin' to 'urry through with my dressing and wait till to-morrow night to see how he looks. No risks for Willie!" The suggestion seemed thoughtful and good.
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