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Bob, "I propose myself to hoffer up a few general remarks on 'Ope! Me and 'Ope is old friends, genelmen. We set sail together from the port of London, 'Ope and I, when I was a bright-faced boy that 'igh! We've bunked in together, fair weather and foul, coming on this thirty year.
Hoffer walked to first on a base on balls. Sweeney advanced him. The Rube sent up a giant fly to Callopy. Then Staats hit safely, scoring the first run of the game. Hoffer crossed the plate amid vociferous applause. Mitchell ended the inning with a fly to Blandy. What a change had come over the spirit of that Quaker aggregation!
"Well," the friend counseled, "you just get her into a corner some'eres and say to 'er, 'Dearest 'Attie, I hoffer you my 'and hand my 'eart." "But I can't," wailed Johnny. "I could never get her into a corner anyway." "If you can't, you're not hold enough to marry then. What the 'ell would you do with a woman in the 'ouse if you couldn't corner 'er?
There's always room for a 'ouse that supplies good liquor. What can I hoffer you, madam? Some of our whisky has been fourteen years in bottle; or, being a lady, perhaps you'd like to try some of our best unsweetened." Esther declined, but William said they could not leave without drinking the health of the house. "Irish or Scotch, ma'am? Mr. Latch drinks Scotch."
But p'raps if you was to make a hoffer previous to the sale, the property might be disposed of as it stands by private contrack." "I'll see about that," answered Major Vernon. "I'll stroll over to Shorncliffe, this, morning, and look in upon Mr. Grogson Grogson, I think you said was the auctioneer's name?" "Yes, sir; Peter Grogson, and very much looked up to be is, and a warm man, folks do say.
J. R. Hoffer, editor of the Mount Joy Herald, Mount Joy, Pa. Of this pamphlet over 80,000 were sent by Mr. Hoffer to clergymen in the United States. And of my reply alone, in a tract form, which is based upon the letter of the Sacred Scriptures the testimony of ancient writers and science about 50,000 copies have been printed and distributed by Mr.
Space forbids me to dwell in detail on these noble poems, on the well-known sonnets to Venice, to Milton, &c.; on the generous tributes to the heroes of the contest, Schill, Hoffer, Toussaint, Palafox; or on the series which contrast the instinctive greatness of the Spanish people at bay, with Napoleon's lying promises and inhuman pride.
"I certainly did hoffer my political opinions, Captain Vilson; but you must be avare that ve hall ave an hequal stake in the country and it's a Hinglishman's birthright." "I'm not aware what your stake in the country may be, Mr Easthupp," observed Captain Wilson, "but I think that, if you used such expressions, Mr Easy was fully warranted in telling you his opinion."
"You're a curious creature," answered Edgar, with a smile. "Is Miss Pritty at home?" "No, sir, she ain't." This answer appeared to surprise and annoy him. "Very odd," he said, with a little frown. "Did she not expect me?" "No, sir, I think she didn't. Leastways she didn't say as she did, but she was very partikler in tellin' me to be sure to hoffer you a cup of tea."
But if Napoleon's career afforded to Wordsworth a poetic example, impressive as that of Xerxes to the Greeks, of lawless and intoxicated power, there was need of some contrasted figure more notable than Hoffer or Palafox from which to draw the lessons which great contests can teach of unselfish valour. Was there then any man, by land or sea, who might serve as the poet's type of the ideal hero?
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