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"Why?" interposed Allen, "because we are raw cockneys, who go into raptures over primroses and wild hyacinths, eh, Jessie?" "Well, you have set them up very nicely," said Jessie; "but fancy taking so much trouble about common flowers." "What would you think worth setting up?" asked Janet. "A big dahlia, I suppose, or a great red cactus?"
She had bought three while they were crawling up the hill behind a break-load of jeering Cockneys. "What will win the first race?" she asked. "Father says you men often hear more than the owners about the real performances of horses." Medenham tried to look knowing. He thanked his stars for Dale's information. "I am told Eyot has a chance," he said. "Well, put me a sovereign on Eyot, please.
The establishment, choked at that season with the polyglot herd, cockneys of all climes, mainly German, mainly American, mainly English, it appeared as the corresponding sensitive nerve was touched, sounded loud and not sweet, sounded anything and everything but Italian, but Venetian. The Venetian was all a dialect, he knew; yet it was pure Attic beside some of the dialects at the bustling inn.
I have been haunted once more, and this time by the most obnoxious spook I have ever had the bliss of meeting. He is homely, squat, and excessively vulgar in his dress and manner. I have met cockneys in my day, and some of the most offensive varieties at that, but this spook absolutely outcocknifies them all, and the worst of it is I can't seem to rid myself of him.
"I'm an Irishman! My name is Desmond O'Hara." Mr. Reardon was fully aware that here was a grand specimen of the kind of Irish he had been taught to despise the Irish that take the king's shilling, the gentlemen Irish that lead the king's cockneys into battle. And yet, strange to say, no thought of that entered his head now.
The man who kept his head kept a head full of fantastic nonsense; he was a writer of rowdy farces, a demagogue of fiction, a man without education in any serious sense whatever, a man whose whole business was to turn ordinary cockneys into extraordinary caricatures. Yet when all these other children of the revolution went wrong he, by a mystical something in his bones, went right.
THUS in chorus shrilled the infant Cadges like the morning stars singing together, but still more like the transplanted little cockneys they were. The placid brow of Mr.
Of course the cockneys, with their vasty houses and noise-ridden streets, can call us rustics if they choose; but for all that, Fairfield is a better place to live in than London. Doctor says that when he goes to London his mind is bruised with the weight of the houses, and he was a cockney born. He had to live there himself when he was a little chap, but he knows better now.
"I thank you fellows very much for the kind opinion you entertain of me, and now I want to lay a proposition before you." "Hear! Hear the captain!" called two or three cockneys in hoarse good humor. "I want to say that to-morrow we are going to man the schooner and sail for home." The men were in a bubbling mood, and cheered this with cries of "Good! Good!"
He had, of course, a curate, who lived with him, and took very good care of him. "No one else?" said Rachel. "I thought your sister lived at Bishopsworthy." "No, my sister lives, or has lived, at Little Worthy, the next parish, and as unlike it as possible. It has a railroad in it, and the cockneys have come down on it and 'villafied' it. My aunt, Mrs.
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