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Hollo, was that the street door? 'Yes; Ritchie going home. Fancy his being at the silk all this time! I am so sorry! Maugre her sorrow, there were few happier maidens in England than Mary May, even though her service was distracted by the claims of three slave-owners at once, bound as she was, to Ethel, by habitual fidelity, to Harry, by eager adoration, to Blanche, by willing submission.
"Why on earth, man, don't you put up a sign-post and a board to warn travellers that you've been running out new fences and changing the road, eh?" "Why, my good friend," said Mr. Grant, smiling, "the fence and the road are of themselves pretty conclusive proof to most men that the road is changed; and, besides, we don't often have people driving round corners at full gallop; but " "Hollo!
"Don't be such a coward; he can't get away," he continued, examining his victim's bonds with critical attention. "Look, Esmay; if he moves he hangs himself. A fix, isn't it?" and the boy laughed contentedly. It had been rare sport, this trapping of a man, worth half a dozen wolves or even a bear. "Hollo! Esmay," he called again, and the girl came up slowly. "You did it splendidly," said the boy.
Sturk thought he heard Toole's well-known, brisk voice, under his windows, exclaim, 'What is the dirty beggar doing there? faugh! he smells all over like carrion ha, ha ha! and looking out, in his dream, from his drawing-room window, he saw a squalid mendicant begging alms at his hall-door. 'Hollo, you, Sir; what do want there? cried the surgeon, with a sort of unaccountable antipathy and fear.
They had now approached the strangers, who, however, appeared mere rustic clowns, and who pulled off their hats with the wonted obeisance of their tribe. "Hollo, my men," said the Squire, assuming his magisterial air, for the mildest Squire in Christendom can play the Bashaw, when he remembers he is a Justice of the Peace.
The man with the horrible face looked, with the greatest surprise, up the court, and down the court, and in at the windows of the houses everywhere but at Sam Weller and took another step forward, when he was brought to again by another shout. 'Hollo, you sir! said Sam, for the third time.
‘I think he’s on the box, sir,’ said the young gentleman before noticed in the pink shirt, which looked like a white one ruled with red ink. ‘I want to be set down!’ said Dumps in a faint voice, overcome by his previous efforts. ‘I think these cads want to be set down,’ returned the attorney’s clerk, chuckling at his sally. ‘Hollo!’ cried Dumps again. ‘Hollo!’ echoed the passengers.
But when the cripple, in his despair, shook, in his nervous grasp, the bars of the grating in the door, as if he would wrench it from its staples, and flung himself in desperation against the strongly-ironed wooden mass, with a violence that threatened, in spite of its great strength, to burst it open, the matter seemed to become more serious in their eyes. "Hollo, man! witchfinder! Black Claus!
'And we, at any rate, had better drop talking of snobs, said Felix. 'Hollo, Felix! I am sure you for one would not be a snob if you had turned chimney-sweeper, and let Tom Underwood nail me to his office; he'll never make one of me! 'I trust so, said Felix; 'but it is not the way to keep from it to throw about the word at other folks. 'What's that? cried Alda.
As her foot touched the pavement a man who was walking very fast, with his head down, made a step to one side, to get out of the way, and then, recognising her and the Greek, lifted his hat hastily and would have passed on. She started with an exclamation of surprise, for it was Lushington, whom she had supposed to be in London. Logotheti spoke first, calling to him in English. 'Hollo!
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