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Yet she was also conscious, and, as she thought, as inconsistently, of being pleased and even proud of his success. At the conclusion the applause was general, and a voice added with husky admiration and familiarity: "Brayvo, Johnny Walker!" Twing's face became suddenly white as a Pierrot mask. There was a dead silence, in which the voice continued, "Give us 'Sugar in the Gourd, Johnny."
At this moment three men on the pavement the usual men on the pavement at such times turned and looked into the cab. "'Ere's White!" cried one of them. "White dash his eyes! Brayvo! brayvo, White!" And all three raised a shout which seemed to be taken up vaguely in various parts of Trafalgar Square, and finally died away in the distance.
Brayvo!" cried Jem, hammering the side of the boat; "brayvo, waxworks! I say, mate, will he always go off like that when you pull the string?" "Yes," said the Englishman, laughing; "and two hundred more like him." "Then it must be a werry pretty sight indeed; eh, Mas' Don?"
"Which shall we do, sir pull him through, or get the ladder up to the roof and drag him out?" "Here, Daniel! Come up," said the doctor. The old gardener came up eagerly; and one of his cast-iron grins expanded his face as he grasped the situation. "Brayvo, Peter!" he cried. "That's the way to ketch a ghost. Hold him tight, lad!" The doctor smiled. "Don't let them hurt him, papa," whispered Helen.
Coffee, hot, follers in five minits." "Brayvo," ejaculated Bluenose, with an approving smile. "I wonder who the old man is?" said Guy. "He neither looks like a landsman nor a seaman, but a sort of mixture of both." "So he is," said Bax. "I happen to know him, though he does not know me. I suppose he was goin' down the coast in the vessel out of which his daughter tumbled.
'We'll see, gentlemen, said John, after a long pause, 'who's the master of this house, and who isn't. We'll see whether boys are to govern men, or men are to govern boys. 'And quite right too, assented Solomon Daisy with some approving nods; 'quite right, Johnny. Very good, Johnny. Well said, Mr Willet. Brayvo, sir.
"Well, but come up for half-an-hour, and have a glass of beer while we talk over the business," said Bax. Coleman shook his head, "Can't quit my post; besides, I don't drink no beer." "Brayvo! old feller," cried Bluenose, "give us your flipper. Water, cold, for ever! say I, as the whale remarked to the porpoise.
When the Colonel sat down there was much applause, and O'Flynn, who had lent his cup to Nicholas, and didn't feel he could wait till it came back, began to drink punch out of the dipper between shouts of: "Hooray! Brayvo! Here's to the Kurrnul! God bless him! That's rale oratry, Kurrnul! Here's to Kentucky and ould Ireland." Father Wills stood up, smiling, to reply.
'Brayvo; wery pretty! said Sam, when the red-nosed man having finished, pulled his worn gloves on, thereby thrusting his fingers through the broken tops till the knuckles were disclosed to view. 'Wery pretty. 'I hope it may do you good, Samuel, said Mrs. Weller solemnly. 'I think it vill, mum, replied Sam. 'I wish I could hope that it would do your father good, said Mrs. Weller.
"Brayvo, doctor! you have 'er there!" came in a soft whisper from the door. For a moment I felt tempted to turn the boy out, as I had turned out the dog; but, seeing that my old woman had not overheard the remark, I took no notice of it. "You have put the matter in a new light John," said Mrs Willis slowly, as her eyes once more sought the spout.
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