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Updated: June 10, 2025
"An' please, sir, tell 'er I meant to go back to her at the end of three days, as I promised; but I couldn't leave the 'ouse with baby inside, an' the fire, an' the kittle, with nobody to take care on 'em could I, sir?" "Cer'nly not, little woman," returned the letter-carrier, with a solemn look at the overburdened creature who appealed to him.
Above her forehead a mist of airy curls fluttered in the warm breeze from the open window. "My, ain't it hot!" she sighed. "I got all het up a-bakin' them cakes. Shall I fry you another griddleful, papa?" "They cer'nly do taste kind o' moreish, Abby," conceded Mr. Daggett thickly. "You do beat the Dutch, Abby, when it comes t' pancakes. Mebbe I could manage a few more of 'em." Mrs.
"So do I! I don't really know a thing " "Huh! I bet you do!" " though I ought to, living in a small town so long. I'd planned to buy me a bird-book," she rambled on, giddy with sunshine, "and a flower-book and bring them along, but I was so busy getting away from the office that I came off without them. Don't you just love to know about birds and things?" "Yuh, I cer'nly do; I cer'nly do.
"Oh, cer'nly, sir," said Willie, with a profound bow, as he fell to the rear. They walked on in silence until they came to the vicinity of the Monument, when Mr Auberly turned round and asked Willie which way they were to go now. "Right back again," said Willie. "How, boy; what do you mean?" "We've overshot the mark about half a mile, sir.
"Why, iss, we've diskivered a noo vein," said Trezise with a sly smile, "and we're sinkin' a shaft here in the hope o' raisin' tin, or somethin'." "Ha! hope you'll let John an' me have a pitch in the noo bal, won't 'ee?" said Maggot with a laugh. "Oh, cer'nly, cer'nly," replied the boatsman; "if you'll lend us a hand to sink the shaft. You appear to have been in the water, and 'twill warm 'ee."
Why, I get real thrilled I hope you won't think I'm trying to get high-browed, Mr. Morton." "Why, no. Cer'nly not. I understand. Gwan." "It gets me going when I look down the aisle at the altar and see the arches and so on. And the priests in their robes they look so so way up oh, I dunno just how to say it so kind of uplifted." "Sure, I know. Just the esthetic end of the game.
And how are those for swell ties?" "Very nice.... From whom did you borrow the money?" "Now that cer'nly is a nice, sweet way to congratulate friend hubby. Oh, sure! Man lands a job, works his head off getting it, gets an advance for some new clothes he's simply got to have, and of course everybody else congratulates him everybody but his own wife.
"That may be," rejoined the lawyer; "but you are aware that Miss Tipps already teaches in order to increase her mother's small income, and she will probably be glad to get another pupil. We mean to pay her well for the service, and I suppose that if she has no objection you will have none." "Cer'nly not!" replied Mrs Marrot with much emphasis.
"You women cer'nly are a sketch!" he caroled. "Going back to mamma, are you? Sure! That's what the first Mrs. Schwirtz was always doing. Let's see. Once she got as far as the depot before she came back and admitted that she was a chump. I doubt if you get that far. You'll stop on the step. You're too tightwad to hire a taxi, even to try to scare me and make it unpleasant for me."
"Cer'nly not!" answered the negro with prompt decision. "What! wake up all his old hopes to hab 'em all dashed to bits p'raps when you find dat you's wrong!" "But I feel absolutely certain that I'm not wrong!" returned Nigel, excitedly. "Consider there is, first, the one-eyed pirate; second, there is " "'Scuse me, Massa Nadgel, dere's no occasion to go all ober it again.
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