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She announced her intention to her brother that evening, when he came home at a latish hour from the Thousand Columns, elated by having won three francs and a half at dominoes an amount which he had expended on cognac and syphons for himself and his antagonist. He was surprised, vexed even, by Clarissa's decision. Why had she come to him, if she meant to run away directly?
He and I had paddled this botanizing creature across to an island where some marooned fellow had built a hut, and we kept a little whisky in a bunk, and used the place sometimes for shooting or fishing. It was latish one night, the botanist had not come home, I fell asleep, and left Thompson with the whisky.
Then there's my mother in Devon. She'd be tremendously bucked if " "Is this place abroad?" said Isabel. "I can't tell that even to you." "When are you starting?" "Probably in three days' time latish." "You're determined to go?" "I must." "Nothing I can say will prevent you?" "I'm sorry, dear." "Hm!" said Isabel. "Then I suppose we'd better make the most of the time that's left."
"What time did you part from the Mackwaytes at the theatre last night?" Desmond was dumbfounded. How on earth did the Chief know about his visit to the Palaceum? Still, he was used to the omniscience of the British Intelligence, so he answered promptly: "It was latish, sir; about midnight, I think!" "They went home to Seven Kings alone!" "Yes, sir, in a taxi!" Desmond replied.
They won't be home till latish an' I'll go bail as full o' strong waters as they can carry. It's not market day to-morrow and your mother'll lie in bed till noon. You can share my bed an' I'll let 'ee out long afore the mistress wakes." "Oh thank you thank you Hannah. How clever you are to think of all this." "Not much cleverness either.
Smith, and especially Miss Annette Smith, could perceive in their ejaculations, before they themselves were drawn into the strong current of interest. And this was the matter: Tinman had hired the glass for three days. Latish, on the very first day of the hiring, close upon dark, he had despatched imperative orders to Phippun and Company to take the glass out of his house on the spot. And why?
"A shot of hooch!" observed his lordship "I dare say your shooting over here is absolutely top-hole keener sport than our popping at driven birds. What, what!" At a latish seven, when the Grill had become nicely filled with a representative crowd, the Belknap-Jacksons arrived with his lordship.
Waffles' father, then, was either a great grazier or a great brazier which, we are unable to say, 'for a small drop of ink having fallen, not 'like dew, but like a black beetle, on the first letter of the word in our correspondent's communication, it may do for either but in one of which trades he made a 'mint of money, and latish on in life married a lady who hitherto had filled the honourable office of dairy-maid in his house; she was a fine handsome woman and a year or two after the birth of this their only child, he departed this life, nearer eighty than seventy, leaving an 'inconsolable, &c., who unfortunately contracted matrimony with a master pork-butcher, before she got the fine flattering white monument up, causing young Waffles to be claimed for dry-nursing by that expert matron the High Court of Chancery; who, of course, had him properly educated where, it is immaterial to relate, as we shall step on till we find him at college.
Latish at night, though it was still broad day in our subarctic latitude, we came down upon the shores of the roaring Pentland Firth, that grave of mariners; on one hand, the cliffs of Dunnet Head ran seaward; in front was the little bare, white town of Castleton, its streets full of blowing sand; nothing beyond, but the North Islands, the great deep, and the perennial ice-fields of the Pole.
"It's latish for ceilidhing," said Dan. "I'm hoping me and my friends are not putting ye out in any ways, but just a shakedown o' breckans is all we're asking, and thankful for it." "Better the bottom o' the locker than the end o' the cable. Sit ye doon and warm yourself."
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