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"Perry," said uncle George, removing his hat to ruffle his curls, "you've heard of bears robbed of cubs, of the Hyr what's-a-name tiger " "Hyrcanian, George!" murmured uncle Jervas. "Well, they're playful pets in comparison. How is your aunt? B'gad, Perry, my lad, that's precisely the dooce of it, d'ye see!" "She she is very well, I hope?" faltered I. "Assuredly!" answered my uncle Jervas.
The thought that I shall meet her so soon a nameless doubt an indefinable dread " "Dread, Perry? Doubt? What the dooce d'ye mean?" "That's the devil of it, Anthony I don't know. But I have a vague fear a presentiment, if you like. I feel as if there was a dreadful something impending a shadow " "Oh, pshaw, man! Shadow? Tush an' be damned to it! You're in a devilish low state indubitably stomach "
There came a sudden motion and the oversetting of a chair, a brief struggle. Silence again. "What the dooce?" exclaimed Henfrey, sotto voce. "You all right thur?" asked Mr. Hall, sharply, again. The Vicar's voice answered with a curious jerking intonation: "Quite ri-right. Please don't interrupt." "Odd!" said Mr. Henfrey. "Odd!" said Mr. Hall. "Says, 'Don't interrupt," said Henfrey.
"You come ofer to my house since Ennis he no coming. Dese clothes is from my ole vomans. Mebbe ye look like like de dooce in dem, but dat's better as to freeze to death. An you vants a big breakfass so you goes vid me along. Hey dere! Joe! If Ennis he come you tell him come ofer to me, ye hear?" A few minutes later Madge was trudging over the beaten snow by the side of her huge companion.
"My knee's sound enough to teach this countryman manners, b'gad; you heard him say my coat was filthy?" "So it is, Sling, my boy, devilish dirty! So are your knees look at 'em! But if you will dismount head over heels into a muck-heap, my dear fellow, what the dooce can you expect?" The Captain merely swore.
"Why, you see," began the Marquis, frowning at the ceiling harder than ever, and flicking open his snuff-box, "you see speaking for myself, of course, I say speaking for myself, I hum! the fact is ha! that is to say oh, dooce take it!" And, in his distress, he actually inhaled a pinch of snuff and immediately fell a-sneezing, with a muffled curse after every sneeze.
'She'll say "Noo, be dooce," the minute I hae shacken hands wi' her, said Robert. 'Robert, returned Ericson solemnly, 'if I had a grandmother to go home to, she might box my ears if she liked I wouldn't care. You do not know what it is not to have a soul belonging to you on the face of the earth. It is so cold and so lonely! 'But you have a cousin, haven't you? suggested Robert.
I'm an old man and you're a young boy, and, that being so, why, of course What the dooce are you giggling about?" For Dick, after some seconds of half-frightened open-mouthed staring, had suddenly burst into a violent fit of almost hysterical giggling, which he seemed trying vainly to suppress. This naturally annoyed Mr.
"Dooce take me," exclaimed the Corinthian, feeling for his eye-glass, "it's Devenham!" "Why, Dicky!" cried the Captain, "where have you sprung from?" and, forgetful of Barnabas, they hurried forward to greet the Viscount, who, having beaten some of the dust from his driving coat, sprang down from his high seat and shook hands cordially.
From the open kitchen door came the smell of something good. But beyond all to Robert was the welcome of Miss Lammie, whose small fat hand closed upon his like a very love-pudding, after partaking of which even his grandmother's stately reception, followed immediately by the words 'Noo be dooce, could not chill the warmth in his bosom.
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