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"We'll be manufacturing by New Year's." "That's the point. What'll we be manufacturing?" "By crikey! That reminds me. Haven't settled that yet. Might as well do it right now," said the presiding genius of the place with Olympian decision. "Dr. De Vito, what's the newest wrinkle in brain-food?" "Brain-food?" hesitated the little physician. "Something new?"
W'y, weren't you 'owling for fresh tins every blessed day? 'Ow often 'ave I 'eard you send the 'ole bloomin' dinner off and tell the man to chuck it in the swill-tub? And breakfast? O, my crikey! breakfast for ten, and you 'ollerin' for more! And now you 'can't 'most tell'! Blow me if it ain't enough to make a man write an insultin' letter to Gawd!
Winter proffered a card, and the boy's eyes opened wide. "Crikey!" he said. "I've read about you, sir. Well, I've been doing a bit of detective work of my own. At lunch time I strolled past the set of flats where I thought the lady lived, and had the luck to see her getting out of a cab at the door. I followed her upstairs, pretending I had business somewhere, and saw her go into No. Eleven.
"It's all right," whispered Mercer, scuffling into his place beside me, the boys around, to my great surprise, seeming to look at my marks with quite respectful eyes, and evidently as a conqueror's honours or laurels, when there was a sharp tapping on the table from the Doctor's knife-handle. Profound silence ensued, Mercer just gripping my knee and whispering, "Oh, crikey!"
"No, please only one, sir!" she answered, dropping him a little, old-fashioned curtsey. "Crikey!" said he, staring, "so young, so tender, an' a game leg! A little angel wi' a broke wing lumme!"
Peter and some of the younger children were away felling stringybark-trees for the sustenance of the sheep. The fall of their axes and the murmur of the Murrumbidgee echoed faintly from the sunset. They would be home presently and at tea; I reflected it would be "The old yeos looks terrible skinny, but the hoggets is fat yet. By crikey! They did go into the bushes.
"It is ordinarily VERY handsome," said he, with such a leer at a couple of passers-by, that one of them cried, "Oh, crikey, here's a precious guy!" and a child, in its nurse's arms, screamed itself into convulsions. "Oh, oui, che suis tres-choli garcon, bien peau, cerdainement," continued Mr. Pinto; "but you were right. That that person was not very well pleased when he saw me.
"I've got one!" cries Jorrocks "I've got one now, my wig, if I can but land him. I have him, certainly by Jove! he's a wopper, too, judging by the way he kicks. Oh, but it's no use, sir come along come along here he is doublets, by crikey two, huzza! huzza! What fine ones! young haddocks or codlings, I should call them werry nice eating, I dare say I'm blow'd if this arn't sport."
Do you really mean that? And he fumbled for his spy-glass that he might see her face more clearly. 'I mean, Julia began; and then, more firmly, 'Yes, I do mean that, she said, 'if you are of the same mind, my lord, as you were half an hour ago. 'Crikey, but I am! Lord Almeric cried, fairly skipping in his joy. 'By jingo! I am! Here's to you, my lady! Here's to you, ducky!
'When you desire to return, the beautiful voice went on, 'hold me up towards the East, and speak the word. Then, passing through me, you shall return to this time and it shall be the present to you. 'But how A bell rang loudly. 'Oh crikey! exclaimed Robert, 'that's tea! Will you please make it proper daylight again so that we can go down. And thank you so much for all your kindness.
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