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I give you my word, I noticed this morning, when you were speaking with him, that his fingers were all soiled with tar. That's horrid, don't you know." "Don't you think he's a good-looking boy, Mr. Clinton?" "Well, yes; I suppose, for one of the lower order, Mr. Vane." "You forget we don't have any distinction of classes in America." "Don't we though? By Jove! Mr.
There Juno stayed her horses, and spoke to Jove the son of Saturn, lord of all. "Father Jove," said she, "are you not angry with Mars for these high doings? how great and goodly a host of the Achaeans he has destroyed to my great grief, and without either right or reason, while the Cyprian and Apollo are enjoying it all at their ease and setting this unrighteous madman on to do further mischief.
He absolutely refused to believe that Derek was intending to convey what he seemed to be trying to convey: for, if he was, well . . . by Jove . . . it was too rotten and Algy Martyn had been right after all and the fellow was simply . . . "You don't mean, old man," said Freddie with an almost pleading note in his voice, "that you're going to back out of marrying Jill because she's in the chorus?"
"By Jove, does she make you do that?" Eugene nodded sadly, and Bob went off into a fit of obtrusive chuckling. Eugene cast a large cushion dexterously at him and caught him just in the mouth, and, still sadly, rose and went in search of his lady-love. "Why the dickens does he marry that girl?" exclaimed Bob. "It beats me."
"You'll have to excuse the question.... I simply must know, by Jove!... You didn't ask him for it?" She rose with dignity. "If you'll come in I'll tell you about it. We can't talk out here." He came up the portico steps to the level on which she was standing. "Tell me that first," he begged. "You didn't ask him for it? Did you?"
Dick had just about succeeded in putting to flight the worthy chief mate's feeling of awkwardness and embarrassment when Grosvenor appeared and joined the pair, whereupon Sutcliffe, who was rather shy with the passengers, sheered off, upon the pretence of attending to his duty, and left the two together. "By Jove, Doctor, but this is a grand sight, isn't it?" exclaimed Dick's recent patient.
'I am going to the King for what he owes me. 'Oh! take me with thee! Drakestail said to himself, 'One can't have too many friends.... 'I will, says he, 'but with your battalion to drag along, you will soon be tired. Make yourself quite small, go into my throat get into my gizzard and I will carry you. 'By Jove I that's a good idea! says comrade Wasp's-nest.
This face looked on her she thought with bitterest loathing and scorn, and she felt relieved when at the midday halt its owner was ordered to fall out from the rest, and was with four others re-chained for the homeward journey. Frere, struck with the appearance of the five, said, "By Jove, Poppet, there are our old friends Rex and Dawes, and the others.
"I asked Summers about it afterwards," Captain Manley said, "the fellow gave one of the boys a box on the ear, and in an instant the boy stooped, caught his foot and pulled it forward and up. The thing was done in a moment, and the sergeant was on his back before he knew what's what." "By Jove," a young ensign said, "I have seen that trick done at Eton."
"I am growing as romantic as a Californian," he thought; "but this wonderful country pours its colour all through one's nature. If I could find her window, I believe I should serenade her in true Spanish fashion. By Jove, I remember now, she said something about looking through her window at the pines on the hill.
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