b'ilin'-over

Updated: September 20, 2025

I'm sure it's not for want o' tellin' ye, but ye was never great in the way ov memry or spellin'. Pr'aps it's as well. Ye'd ha' bin too perfect, an' that's not desirable, by no means `my darlin' Jo' ay, them's the words. It's that as sets my 'art a b'ilin'-over like."

R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne - Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader