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Updated: May 16, 2025
The gypsies drew together near the fire and talked in low tones, using the language which Mary could not understand: after a minute the woman came back to her. "Give me yer handkercher," she said, and when Mary drew it tremblingly out of her pocket she tied it over the child's eyes and took hold of her hand. "Come along," she said, and Mary followed meekly.
I'm here and there, and where not, like the conjurer's half-crown in the lady's handkercher. Talking of handkerchers and talking of ladies what a comfort you are to your blessed mother, ain't you, my dear boy, over one of my shoulders, and I don't say which!
Then up and to the office, well refreshed, my eye only troubling me, which by keeping a little covered with my handkercher and washing now and then with cold water grew better by night. At noon to the 'Change, which was very thin, and thence homeward, and was called in by Mr. Rawlinson, with whom I dined and some good company very harmlessly merry.
"Fust, haul out my specks. Second, haul out my yeller silk hankercher. Third, wipe them air specks. Fourth, put them air specks on my nose. Fifth, put that air yeller silk handkercher in my pocket. Sixth, clar my throat. Seventh, go at it loud. I don't expect fur to say nothin new on the subject of temperance, but it wont du fur tu say nothin cause you can't get up no new ideas.
"It's one of the Spanish chaps with a red handkercher tied round his head, and him and the old priest is friends, for they are a hugging one another. This chap has got a short gun, and now he's lighting a cigarette at the lamp. Can you hear me?" "Yes; go on." "There's four more of them outside the door, and they have all got short guns. One of them's holding one of them horse-donkeys.
But a strange, conceited, vain man he is that ever I met withal, in his own praise, as I have heretofore observed of him. Thence home, and upon Tower Hill saw about 3 or 400 seamen get together; and one, standing upon a pile of bricks, made his sign, with his handkercher, upon his stick, and called all the rest to him, and several shouts they gave.
I looked at Percy, sleeping, remarkin' 'whooo-whisssh! at regular intervals, his little baby face surrounded by his white handkercher, his little fat hands folded on his little fat stomach, and I could scarcely wait for the time when them soldiers' eyes should fall upon their treacherous, fierce, and implackibble foe.
Mrs. White sniffed and cooled her tearful eyes with her handkercher. "Johnny French hangs on it," she said, "We'm keeping it close till next autumn, but he wants for to marry me, and we'm both lonely souls, and we've both lost a good partner; and so it falls out very suent and convenient like that we should wed. But now he hears tell as I ban't to have the cottage, he's off it.
So, afther that, she took my handkercher and washed it fornent me out; an' I'd watched before how she med the cakes, an' cleared a little space by the fire to bake 'em, an' covered them up wid hot ashes. 'Not a word about the trout, said Arthur. 'How can I tell everything intirely all at wanst? replied the Irishman, with an injured tone. 'Sure I was comin' to that.
If there ever was a grand sight in Nature it's a two-hundred-pound soldier entirely concealed by a rock twice the size of my fist. "Y-a-as, here they come; and I flitted my red handkercher like it was a 'Pache's head-dress, leadin' 'em on to where Percy was. I got there first and crawled into a cave where I could watch.
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