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'A gen'leman as lives near here, responded 'Arry. 'He writes for the newspapers. His name's Keene. 'Oh? And how came you to know him? 'Met him, was the airy reply. 'And you've brought him here? 'Well, he's been here once. 'He said as he wanted to know you, Dick, put in Mrs. Mutimer. 'He was really a civil-spoken man, and he gave 'Arry a lot of help with his books. 'When was he here?
"Sarah, I told you not," said Mary, looking very stern and hesitating with her finger whether or no she would take the letter. "But he did so beg and pray. Besides, miss, as he says hisself he must have his answer. Any gen'leman, he says, 'as a right to a answer. And if you'd a seed him yourself I'm sure you'd have took it. He did look so nice with a blue and gold hankercher round his neck.
She ain't strong, pore thing, and it's better than wasting time and money up at the "Cauliflower." "He 'ad a lot o' talk with Mr. Bunnett for the next day or two, and when 'e went round with the toad on the third day as lively and well as possible the old gen'leman said it was a miracle. And so it would ha' been if it had been the same toad.
"Come on, missie, dat-ah young Yankee gen'leman frien' up an' out." Barbara bit her lip in mock dismay. "Has he de-part-ed?" She had a droll liking for long words, and often deployed their syllables as skirmishers in the rear for her sentences. Johanna tittered. "Humph! you know mawnstus well he ain't gone. Miss Barb, dass de onyess maan I even see wear a baang. Wha' fuh he do dat?"
"Is this the Waterman's Rest?" "Ay, ay, young gen'leman, and a blamed restful place it is, too, fit for watermen what en't naught but landlubbers, speaking by the book, but not fit for the likes of us jack tars. Eh, mateys?" His companions grunted acquiescence. "I have a message for Mr. Toley; is he here?" "Ay, that he is. That's him at the table yonder. "Mr.
She held the letter out before them as if she was lifting something alive by the back of the neck, and to intensify her scorn spoke in the hated tongue prescribed by the new courts. "Loog ad 'im! dad ridge gen'leman oo give so mudge money to de 'ozpill!" "Bud, maman," said the daughter, laying her hand appeasingly upon her mother's knee, "ee do nod know 'ow we is poor."
And off he set in the water, and swam river, ketched the sheep by the throat oh, no, he didn't hurt un, no fear! dragged un to the bank, and brought un over, right enough: he did, though." "Well, 'twas like this," he continued, after a laugh. "A gen'leman was a-rowing by in a boat at the time.
Never made himself too common nor free, but there he was, allus the gen'leman with you what you may call nice." "Reg'lar true-born Englishman, I say," said another. "Nay, just aye like a young Scot," said another. "Hark at that!" said another, looking round defiantly; "it's of Oirish descent he is. Isn't his name Carey?" "What!" cried another, angrily. "Carey Carew.
If I 'ave a weakness, Miss Susan, it's for the right word in the right place as the coster said to the devil-dodger as blowed him up for purfane swearin'. When a gen'leman hoffers me an 'a'penny, I axes him in the purlitest manner I can assume, to oblige me by givin' of it to the first beggar he may 'ave the good fort'n to meet. Some on 'em throws down the 'a'penny. Most on 'em makes it a penny.
A policeman, who had charge of the station house during the absence of his superior officer, here informed Marcus that an old lady and a young one, an old gen'leman and a lad, had called. The old gen'leman and the lad would drop round again during the evening. The old lady and the young one were waiting for him in the captain's room.
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