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"Dallying, sir, dallying with the Muses. That is all my business nowadays." "I looked in," said 'Bias, laying down his hat, "to ask if you would do me a small favour." "You may be sure of it, Captain Hunken: that is, if it should lie in my power." 'Bias nodded, somewhat mysteriously. "You bet it does: though, as one might say, it don't lie azackly inside the common. I want a letter written."
"Finds his talk monotonous?" suggested 'Bias after a pause, during which he, too, puffed. Strange to say, he showed no vexation. His tone was complacent even. "I wouldn' say that azackly. . . ." "I'll admit 'tis monotonous," 'Bias went on, between puffs. "Call it nothing at all if you like: I don't take no truck in birds'-talk, for my part don't mind how same it is.
The plate doesn't azackly tell the truth, because she has been an invalid for years now, and Aunt Netta that's my other aunt had to carry on the business. But everybody knows about it, so there really is no deceit. Aunt Netta's name is Wallas, and so is mine. Her mother was sister to Aunt Louisa, and she tells us we come of very good family. She never married.
Then Peggotty fitted her mouth close to the keyhole, and delivered these words through it with as much feeling and earnestness as a keyhole has ever been the medium of communicating, I will venture to assert: shooting in each broken little sentence in a convulsive little burst of its own. 'Davy, dear. If I ain't been azackly as intimate with you. Lately, as I used to be.
I can't tell you all azackly, but that's something like it, and I think they are fighting now bad luck to them, as O'Grady would say! right in yonder where we had our braxfas'. I say, it's better than I thought, comrade." "In what way, Punch?" "Why, I had made up my mind, though I didn't like to tell you, that they'd give us both the bay'net. But they haven't.
"But I can't say, Missis Newbolt, that everybody's just azackly well," said he. "Some of your folks?" "No, not none of mine," said Sol. "Then whose?" she inquired impatiently. "Isom's," said he. "You don't mean my Joe?" she asked slowly, a shadow of pain drawing her face. "I mean Isom," said Sol. "Isom?" said she, relieved. "Why didn't Joe come after me?"
"Then you were thinking, the same as I was, that you were glad that this horrible business was nearly over, and that these Spanish fellows, who have done nothing to help us, must now finish it themselves?" "Well, not azackly," replied the boy. "What I was thinking was that it's all over now as soon as we have had another shot apiece."
"There's a good 'eal in that dream, I say now; and it gives me hope. Come, let's give another good hunt." "Hugh!" groaned an Indian, dolefully; "he gone, he dead; we no find 'im." "So I b'lieve," added Troffater. "I dremp las night tew, as wal as Granny Fabens; but then our dreams don't agree azackly. I dremp a shaggy wolf ketched 'im.
I suppose it takes people differ'nt as they get up in years." "I know azackly where I feel it!" announced 'Biades. "It's here." He set down his spoon and pointed a finger on the third button of his small waistcoat. "An' it keeps workin' up an' down an' makin' noises just like Billy Richard's key-bugle." "Then it's a mercy it ben't real," commented his brother. "'Biades is right, all the same."
I ought to have made it, perhaps, but I couldn't azackly' that was always the substitute for exactly, in Peggotty's militia of words 'bring my mind to it. 'Go on, Peggotty, said I, more frightened than before. 'Master Davy, said Peggotty, untying her bonnet with a shaking hand, and speaking in a breathless sort of way. 'What do you think? You have got a Pa! I trembled, and turned white.
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