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D n me, give me a buss, my dear boy; I ask your pardon for that infamous appellation I dishonoured your dignity with; but d n me if it was not purely out of love, and to give you an opportunity of doing yourself justice, which I own you have done like a man of honour. What may be the consequence I know not, but I hope, at least, I shall live to reconcile you with my brother."
I dare say you may manage to soften the justice's sentence by a little 'oil of palms; and if you can get me out before I am quite corrupted, a day or two longer in this infernal place will do the business, I promise you that I will not only live honestly myself, but with people who live in the same manner." "Buss me, Paul," said the tender Mrs. Lobkins, "buss me Oh! but I forgits the gate.
To him is universally assigned the original suggestion of the practice which afterwards became so general—of the driver of a second buss keeping constantly behind the first one, and driving the pole of his vehicle either into the door of the other, every time it was opened, or through the body of any lady or gentleman who might make an attempt to get into it; a humorous and pleasant invention, exhibiting all that originality of idea, and fine, bold flow of spirits, so conspicuous in every action of this great man.
"Maybe not, sir," replied Bryan, as he fell back a pace, and permitted Frank to lead the way; "but there's an ould proverb that says, `A bird in the hand's worth two in the buss, an' I've great belaif in that same."
We wished we were in the buss, for then we might have been in the Maes that evening, as she had a good wind. The latitude was 52° 50´. We sailed southwest in 23 fathoms of water, with a bottom of fine sand a little reddish and mixed with black.
They had arrived in a "buss," which they had hired for the occasion. They had come from Humberston the day after those famous races which annually filled Humberston with strangers the time of year in which Rugge's grand theatrical exhibition delighted that ancient town. From the description of the two ladies Waife suspected that they belonged to Rugge's company.
Why, sir, when I was sixteen, I used to swear to swear, egad, like a Thames waterman, and exactly in this fellow's way! Buss me, my lad; no, kiss my hand. That will do" and he held out a very lean yellow hand, peering from a pair of yellow ruffles. It shook very much, and the shaking made all the rings upon it shine only the more. "Well," says Mr.
Morran said, not unkindly, that he looked "like a wull-cat glowerin' through a whin buss." "How are you, Dougal?" Dickson asked genially. "Is the peace of nature smoothing out the creases in your poor little soul?" "What's that ye say?" "Oh, just what I heard a man say in Glasgow. How have you got on?" "No' so bad. Your telegram was sent this mornin'. Auld Bill took it in to Kirkmichael.
I am no great hand at a keyhole for my part, 'tis paltry work; but if so be voices were a talking in yon cave, and them that owned those voices were so near to me as those are to thee, I'd go on all fours like a fox, and I'd crawl on my belly like a serpent, ere I'd lose one word that passes atwixt those twain." "Whisht, Reicht! Bless thee! Bide thou here. Buss me! Pray for me!"
They skulked off I can promise ye, and did not even mount a couple of broomsticks which I handsomely offered for their ride up to London." "Thunder and bombards!" cried a trooper, already half-drunk, and seizing Graul in his iron arms, "put the conjuror out of thine head now, and buss me, Graul, buss me!"
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