beg-yer-pardon

Updated: May 24, 2025

'If God has no voice to be heard for my client in this court-room to-day, is there no one on earth no man or woman who can speak for one who won't speak for himself? says Freddy Tarlton here. Then, by gol! for the first time Malachi opened. 'There's no one, he says. 'The speakin' is all for the sheriff. But I spoke once, and the sheriff didn't answer. Not a bit of beg-yer-pardon in it.

Gilbert Parker - Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People"

'If God has no voice to be heard for my client in this court-room to-day, is there no one on earth no man or woman who can speak for one who won't speak for himself? says Freddy Tarlton here. Then, by gol! for the first time Malachi opened. 'There's no one, he says. 'The speakin' is all for the sheriff. But I spoke once, and the sheriff didn't answer. Not a bit of beg-yer-pardon in it.

Gilbert Parker - Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People", v2