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"I like to hear you speak my name," he said, with a slight hesitation in his breath. "Say it again." "Car-roll, Car-roll, Car-roll," she murmured gently to herself two or three times, as if enjoying her own native trilling of the r's. "It's a pretty name. It sounds like a song. Don Carroll, eh! El Capitan Don Carroll." "But my first name is Henry," he said, faintly. "'Enry that's not so good.
And then, dang me!" the old man beat the ladder as he loosed off this last titbit, "if he doesna sit' isseif i' door like a sentrynel till 'Enry Farewether coom up. Hoo's that for a tyke not yet a year?" Even Sam'l Todd was moved by the tale. "Well done, oor Bob!" he cried. "Good, lad!" said the Master, laying a hand on the dark head at his knee.
Had you passed close to the group you might have heard: "A man, d'yo say, Mr. Maddox? A h'ape, I call him"; or: "A dog? more like an 'og, I tell yo'." Round the old orator were Jonas, 'Enry, and oor Job, Jem Burton, Rob Saunderson, Tupper, Jim Mason, Hoppin, and others; while on the outskirts stood Sam'l Todd prophesying rain and M'Adam's victory.
The "grocery lady" called over in a clear, ringing tone, "Would you be so kind, 'm, as to step inside on your way 'ome and fetch 'Enry a bit of work, 'm? 'Enry 'as the 'ooping cough, 'm, and I don't know 'owever I'm goin' to keep 'im at 'ome another day, 'm, he pines for school so!" I give a nod which means, Certainly! Mrs.
We sol' poor Billy up yesterday. The third smash in two days that makes. Lord! I dunno where it'll end." "Things are going a bit quick over there. There's been too much building." "They're at me to build, too 'Enry is. But I says no. This place is good enough for me. If 'e's goin' to be ashamed of 'ow 'is father lives, 'e'd better stop away. I'm an ol' man now, an' a poor one.
'So Monsieur 'Enry Rogairs is coming, she said excitedly, turning to them a moment on her way to the garden. 'And after all these years! He will find the house the same, and the garden better oh, wonderfully improved. But us, helas! he will find old, oh, how old! She did not really mean herself, however.
The noises in the street were now tumultuous. People were shouting and laughing. Some of them were singing. At one moment it was the Salvation chorus, at the next a music-hall ditty. First "At the Cross, at the Cross," then "Mr. 'enry 'awkins," and then an unfamiliar ditty.
I did my duty by 'im, although it's me as says it, answered the good lady. 'Well, mates, said Harry's brother, 'I reckon it's abaht time to go in. So 'ere's to the 'ealth of Mr. 'Enry Atkins an' 'is future missus. 'An' God bless 'em! said Sally's mother.
Come from abroad, they do. My brother Joe's wife's sister 'ad one of 'em. Red-'aired gel she was. Married a feller down at the Docks. She 'ad one of 'em. Parrots they're called." He bent down for a closer inspection, and inserted a finger through the railings. Erb abandoned his customary taciturnity and spoke words of warning. "Tike care 'e don't sting yer, 'Enry!" Henry seemed wounded.
For lawk-amussy's sake call him off, man!" Even Sam'l Todd, watching the scene from the cart-shed, was tickled and burst into a loud guffaw, heartily backed by 'Enry and oor Job. While M'Adam remarked: "Ye're fitter for a stage than a stable-bucket, Mr. Thornton." "How didst come by him?" asked Tammas, nodding at the puppy. "Found him," the little man replied, sucking his twig.
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