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But she 'AVE a tongue, she 'ave"; the mother lowered her voice cautiously, lest the "lidy" should hear. "I don't deny it that she 'AVE a tongue, at times, through myself 'avin' suffered from it. And when she DO go on, Lord bless you, why, there ain't no stoppin' of 'er." "Oh, she has a tongue, has she?" Travers replied, surveying the "case" critically. "Well, you know, she looks like it."
"Flyin'" she exclaimed, "nothin' of the sort; they only made a long jump out o' the water, an' wriggled their tails as they went; at least they wriggled something, for I couldn't be rightly sure they 'ad tails to wriggle, any more than wings never 'avin' seen 'em except in pictures, which is mostly lies. Indeed!"
I told her no good wouldn't come of 'avin' that number of children to her Christmas tree twice thirteen; an' I said if thirteen was hunlucky, twice thirteen was twice worse; an' your ma just laughed at me; an' the next day came the burnin'." Bessie looked gravely at her.
He'd 'ad a bit of shock before you come in, sir." "Yes?" murmured P. Sybarite absently. "Yes, sir; a bit of a shock, owin' to 'is 'avin' quarrelled with Mr. Bayard, sir." "Oh!" P. Sybarite roused. "Quarrelled with his son, you say?" "Yes, sir; somethin' dreadful they was goin' on. 'E couldn't 'ave got over it when you come. Mr. Bayard 'adn't been gone, not more than five minutes, sir."
"You 'is father?" said the landlord sharply. And again Beale was inspired to truthfulness quite a lot of it. "No," he said cautiously, "wish I was. The fact is, the little chap's aunt wasn't much class. An' I found 'im wandering. An' not 'avin' none of my own, I sort of adopted 'im."
Coming from Norway, an 'avin' perhaps a very limited experience, you mayn't 'ave 'erd it but eddicated people 'ere find it very convenient and expressive. Chick means style, the thing, the go, the fashion. For example, everything your lady wears is chick!" "Really!" said Britta, with a wandering and innocent air. "How funny! It doesn't sound like French, at all, Mr.
Hodges, who had been attending to her own domestic duties, came downstairs again. Mrs. Kemp was on the bed sleeping. 'I was just 'avin' a little nap, she said to Mrs. Hodges, on waking. ''Ow is the girl? asked that lady. 'Oh, answered Mrs. Kemp, 'my rheumatics 'as been thet bad I really 'aven't known wot ter do with myself, an' now Liza can't rub me I'm worse than ever.
"Dummer Kerl!" said the bird-faced man suddenly in a tone of concentrated malignancy, glaring under his bandages. "Esel!" "That's German for silly ass! I know. But who's the silly ass 'im or me? When I was a kid, I used to read penny dreadfuls about 'avin adventures and bein' a great c'mander and all that rot. I stowed it. But what's 'e got in 'is head?
The gut is formed by the point-bluff and a southern block, and the surface is covered with dense second-growth pandanus, the false sugar-cane, ferns large and small, and the sloth-tree, the Brazilian ubá or Preguiça, with tall, thin white trunk and hanging palmated leaves. Severely hustled and horribly shaken up, we ran down the little valley of the Avin streamlet.
"After them too, is 'e? Don't mean ter say they've been an' lost their fathers an' mothers? No? Then I don't see." "Them 'avin' contracted to look after you " He paused here, as Tilda, fixing him with a compassionate stare, began to shake her head slowly.
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