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I will come straight back. I'll keep father out of it somehow; and I'll do all I can to save Mr. Brook's property. He's a good master, and he's been specially kind to me, and I won't have him or his property injured." "Why, lauk a' mercy, Jack, you ain't going to fight the whole place all by yourself, are you?"
In the Katingan language the word lauk means creature; an additional word, earth, water, or air, as the case may be, signifying whether an animal, a bird, or a fish is meant. Having accomplished in a short time as much as could be expected, we returned to Kuala Samba, and from there, in the first week of January, started southward in our big prahu.
Raddle and the cab-driver were having an altercation concerning the fare, which, terminating at this point in favour of the cabman, Mrs. Raddle came up tottering. 'Lauk, Mary Ann! what's the matter? said Mrs. Cluppins. 'It's put me all over in such a tremble, Betsy, replied Mrs. Raddle. 'Raddle ain't like a man; he leaves everythink to me. This was scarcely fair upon the unfortunate Mr.
Jorrocks, casting his eye up the table, as soon as they had all got squeezed and wedged round it, and the dishes were uncovered, "you see your dinner, eat whatever you like except the windmill hope you'll be able to satisfy nature with what's on would have had more but Mrs. J is so werry fine, she won't stand two joints of the same sort on the table." Mrs. J. Lauk, John, how can you be so wulgar!
Ah, he was a fellow! none of your girl-faced mudgers, who make love to ladies, forsooth, a pretty woman need not look far for a kiss when he was in the room, I warrant, however coarse her duds might be; and lauk! but the captain was a sensible man, and liked a cow as well as a calf."
I knocked louder I rang impatiently; no footsteps were heard in the hall: I pulled the bell incessantly. During the space of three minutes that I was forced to wait on the steps, I formed a variety of horrid imaginations. At last I heard approaching sounds: an old woman very deliberately opened the door. "Lauk, sir, how you do ring!
The news having spread, Miss Sally Wooster was among the astonished spectators who beheld the tiny, half-naked, frightened little chieftain-to-be, gazing timidly about him as he sat on the planks, gripping his own little shirt as his one and only acquaintance. "Lauk!" she said, and laughing immoderately, sped for the door. "Sally, you ain't to help neither Barney nor us!" called Tuttle.
Bardell produced, from a small closet, a black bottle and a wine-glass; and so great was her abstraction, in her deep mental affliction, that, after filling Mr. Weller's glass, she brought out three more wine-glasses, and filled them too. 'Lauk, Mrs. Bardell, said Mrs. Cluppins, 'see what you've been and done! 'Well, that is a good one! ejaculated Mrs. Sanders. 'Ah, my poor head! said Mrs.
Know I shall be sick, but, however, here goes," sending his plate across the table to the garçon, who was going to help it. The first dive of the spoon undeceived him as he heard it sound at the bottom of the dish. "Oh lauk, what a go! All puff, by Jove! a regular humbug a balloon pudding, in short! I won't eat such stuff give it to Mouncheer there," rejecting the offer of a piece.
I'll tell you, Sir, what I thinks of love: 'twixt you and me, Sir, 'tis not that great thing in life, boys and girls want to make it out to be; if 'twere one's dinner, that would be summut, for one can't do without that; but lauk, Sir, Love's all in the fancy. One does not eat it, nor drink it; and as for the rest, why it's bother!"
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