kindlike

Updated: May 9, 2025

And seein' she was so nice and kindlike, I told her fifteen shillings, instead of a suvveran; and she says, can't you let 'em for less? says she; and she was that pretty and engagin' that I says, well, for you I'll make it twelve and sixpence, mum, says I: and says she, you couldn't say 'arf a suvveran, could you? and says I, I'll ask my 'usband: and oh, John, I DO wish you'd let me take 'em at that, for a kinder, sweeter-lookin' dearer family I never did, an' that I tell you.

Grant Allen - Philistia

And then there's the clergyman that spoke to me in the garden that day the tree was blown down." "What's his name!" "I don't know his name." "Where does he live?" "I don't know." "How can you count him, then?" "He did talk to me, and very kindlike too." His father laughed again. "Why, child, you're just counting everybody you know. That don't make 'em friends." "Don't it? I thought it did.

George MacDonald - At the Back of the North Wind