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He contrasted it in his memory with the weary sameness of the breakfasts served to him in his own palatial London residence, when the velvet-footed butler creeping obsequiously round the table, uttered his perpetual "Tea or coffee, sir? 'Am or tongue? Fish or heggs?" in soft sepulchral tones, as though these comestibles had something to do with poison rather than nourishment.
What's become of Sir Geoffrey Kynaston, Heggs?" he asked, turning round to one of the gamekeepers. "He left us at the top of the Black Copse, sir," the man answered. "He was coming round by the other side shot a woodcock there once, sir," he said. They glanced across the moor toward Falcon's Nest. There was no one in sight.
He is better born, and blood never fails to tell. Again, he generally adopts the profession from taste, not because il faut vivre. He is better bred; he knows the negro from his childhood, and his education is more practical, more generally useful than that of his rivals. Moreover, I never yet heard him exclaim, "Capting, them heggs is 'igh!"
Not so, however, Dobbs. "Werry sorry, sir, but there's no heggs," he replied to this somewhat imperative order from Master Tommy, looking absolutely crestfallen at having thus to confess the shortcomings of his commissariat. "The caterer of the mess, sir, forgot to horder 'em, sir."
"Pless hur! heggs and pacon and toasted cheese Cot pless hur!" exclaimed Betty. "Aunt Dinah," said the child, "here are two women in some great distress, they told me and astray and hungry." "In some great distress, and astray and hungry? then let them in here, child, this minute."
"Some boiled heggs and some happles and some raw turnups," said Bob. Eight mouths watered at this catalogue. Sarah Ketchum whispered: "For a generous slice of turnip, I'd lay me down and die." "I don't keer for nothing but a hegg and a happle, myself," said Bob. "May be you folks would heat the hother things. There's a good lot of happles."
It was the low, prolonged howl of a spaniel a mournful sound which struck a strange note in the afternoon stillness. There was breathless silence for a moment amongst the little group, and the becoming glow died out of Helen's cheek. Rachel Kynaston was the first to recover herself. "Had Sir Geoffrey a dog with him, Heggs?" she asked quickly. "Yes, miss," the man answered.
George and the dragon tutelizing Windsor Castle," says the second; whereupon a John Bull yonder looks up from his 'am and heggs, and the very old dragon himself steps down from the banner-folds, and glares out of those irate eyes, and the ubiquitous British tourist, I have no doubt, took out his notebook, and put on his glasses and wrote down for home consumption another instance of the insufferable assurance of these Yankees.
"There is some one coming," he said. "We shall know very soon." She followed his rapt gaze, and saw three men coming toward them. One was her father, another the underkeeper, and the third was a stranger. Together they watched the approaching figures. Helen, standing a little apart, had the better view. "There is my father, and Heggs, and some one whom I do not know," she announced quietly.
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