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"Now, miss," said sensible Mrs. Wheaton, "I don't vant to do hany more than yer vants done, but hif I was you I'd give hall these 'ere vails a coat hof lime. Vitevash is 'olesome, yer know, and sweetens heverything; hit'll kind o' take haway the nasty taste those drunken people left." "Please whitewash, then, and use plenty of lime.
A certain hidden hearer instantly made up her mind to rush out between the two young men and be a heroine. "Non, non!" exclaimed M. D'Hemecourt excitedly. "Nod in de Café des Exilés nod now, Madjor. Go in dad door, hif you pliz, Madjor. You will heer 'im w'at he 'ave to say. Mague you'sev de troub'. Nod dad door diz one."
Wiggins, rendered more pacific by her breakfast. "Don't you want me to wash up the dishes and put 'em away? I know how." "Hi'll try ye. Hif ye breaks hanythink " and the old woman nodded volumes at the child. "I'll be back in a minute," said Jane. A moment later she met Holcroft carrying two pails of milk from the barnyard.
Dexter said, "Yes, sir," as respectfully as if he were the workhouse porter, and took off his cap and went in. "This way, hif you please," said the supercilious gentleman. "You may leave your cap here." Dexter put down his cap, and followed the man to a door at the further end of the hall. "What name!" said the footman. Dexter stared at him.
"But that Mumpson's hawfully haggravatin', master, as ye know yeself, hi'm a-thinkin'. Vud ye jis tell a body vat she is 'here, han 'ow hi'm to get hon vith 'er. Hif hi'm to take me horders from 'er, hi'd ruther go back to the poor-'us." "You are to take your orders from me and no one else. All I ask is that you go on quietly with your work and pay no attention to her.
Hif the chops is dried, your course is plain cook some more! Not that I am enny ways particular but chippy meat is bad for a delicate digestion. And you would not make me hill, my Flopsie, would you?" Whereupon he seated himself, and looked condescendingly round the table.
Meredith's valet stowed Samuel's clothing in the best bureau and asked, on departing, "hif there was hanything helse, Master Samuel?" Gilly cried out that the faculty had played him false. He felt like an irate frog in whose bowl has been put goldfish. "Good gosh!" he complained to his sympathetic contemporaries, "he's a damn stuck-up Willie.
"Hif that's a spessermin of your Hinjun acquaintances, I don't think much of Hinjur or Hinjun serciety. But what can you expect of a nation as insults the gentleman who waits behind his employer's chair at table by callin' him a kitten-muncher?" Henry Dunbar arrived in London a couple of hours after Mr. Vernon left the Abbey. He went straight to the Clarendon Hotel.
"'E did, hindeed; hand then 'e discharged me without me waiges. Hof course h'I wouldn't sty after that; but h'I says to 'im, 'Hif I don't get me py, h'I'll 'aunt this place from the dy of me death; hand 'e says, ''Aunt awy." "And you have kept your word." "H'I 'ave that! H'I've made it 'ot for 'em, too." "Well, now, look here," said Terwilliger, "I'll tell you what I'll do.
"Do, pray, Mr Turnbull, leave hus to settle these matters. Get hup your wine; that is your department. Leave the room, Mr Turnbull, hif you please. Mortimer and I know what we are about, without your hinterference." "Oh! by the Lord, I don't wish to interfere; but I wish you and your servants not to be squabbling, that's all. If they gave me half the cheek "
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