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Her box had been brought down to the hall, and the porter, who wished to be friendly, was cording it. "May I leave it in your care, porter, until I am able to call for it?" "Certingly, nurse. Sorry you're goin'. I'll miss your face, too." "Thank you. I'll call for my letters also." "There's one just come." It was from Aunt Anna, and was full of severe reproof and admonition.
Terry did the same; so did Jericho. Biler had none to remove, but he raised his potato in the air. Zac led off "Hip, hip, hip, h-o-o-o-r-a-a-a-y!" "Arrah, captain, darlint, an' while yo's about it, sure ye won't be forgettin' ould Ireland," cried Terry, as the ringing cheers died away over the waters. "Certingly," said Zac. "Course. Here goes!"
"Certingly, sir." "To-day is my birthday, Brimberly, and to-night I've reached a kind of 'jumping off' place in my life, and between you and me I'm seriously thinking of er jumping off!" "I crave parding, sir?" "I'm thirty-five years old," continued Young R., his frown growing blacker, "and I've never done anything really worth while in all my useless life!
The last two or three dozen finished him; his digestion wasn't strong enough for 'em, and he know'd it, but he eat himself to death out of politeness. The French are certingly the perlitest people on the face of the yairth. Howsever, I see him buried decently, and I adopted the leetle gal.
"Advantageous result!" repeated Ben, demurely, pretending not to understand. "Certingly." "What does that mean?" "Do you not study your dictionary at school, Benjamin?" "Yes, but I don't like it much." "You are very much in error. You will never learn to employ your tongue with elegance and precision, unless you engage in this beneficial study."
Brimberly's whiskers showed immediate signs of extreme agitation, and he started to his feet. "Mr. Ravenslee, sir for the love o' Gawd!" he exclaimed, "if it's a choice between the two try matrimony first, it's so much so much wholesomer, sir!" "Is it, Brimberly? Let's hear no more of matrimony." "Certingly not, sir!" bowed Mr. Brimberly.
How old are yer?" Frank did not answer; he was considering the best means of getting away from this undesirable acquaintance, who presently, wiping his eyes with the cuff of his jacket, remarked with recovered gravity: "In course, yer know, no one 'ull take a boy what's run away." This was a new and alarming idea to Frank. "Won't they?" he said earnestly. "Certingly not," continued the tramp.
If they ketch 'im 'e'll get six months 'ard." "Then what's 'e been doin' it for? I down't see nothink in it if it down't py.". "Cause he believes in it, thet's why! What do you think, sir?" "I think the man has come by a just fall," said John. "God will never use him again, having brought him to shame." "Must hev been a wrong un certingly," said the man over the fire.
In fack, if any member appeared there in evenin dress he'd be instantly expeld. "And yit," he added, "there's geneyus there, and lorfty emotions, and intelleck. You'll be surprised at the quantities of intelleck you'll see there." We reached the Sloshers in due time, and I must say they was a shaky-looking lot, and the public house where they convened was certingly none of the best.
"Why, sir, since you ask me, I should answer begging your parding 'eavens knows, sir!" "Precisely! Anyway, I'm going there fast." "Where, sir?" "Heaven knows, Brimberly." "Ah er certingly, sir!" "Now, Brimberly, as a hard-headed, matter-of-fact, common-sense being, what would you suggest for a poor devil who is sick and tired of everything and most of all of himself?"
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