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I then proceeded to explain to him the beautiful complex structure by means of which this campanula fertilises itself. He listened in wonder, exhausting all the Spanish and Oriental equivalents of such expressions as "Dear me!" "How extraordinary!" "Lawks a mussy!" "You don't say so!"
He's a reg'lar baby about sech things an' whines like a sick pup ef he's overlooked in the slightest. Thar now, you Buffo! lawks a mussy, dearie, he's got yuh hand all slobbered up you hont yuah hole! It don't do to giv' 'em too much rope. Ef yuh do they's suah ter run on it an' thar's trouble all raound.
Kids cried steadily, he was told, for the first year. A boy one was bad enough, but a girl one was oh lawks. He must never again expect to get playing with blokes like what they was. Already she had got round his old gal who would care for him no more. What would they say about this in Thrums? Shovel even insisted on returning him his cap, and for some queer reason, this cut deepest.
"Well, you see, Peggy," replied her friend, with the confidential air of one who has a secret to tell, "my Bob has took it into his head to give his mates a surprise by fishin' for albatrosses." "Lawks! Nellie, an' that will give 'em a surprise!" interrupted Mrs Mitford, drying her eyes.
"I'll take hold of your hand, and tell him how it is, if he gets in. Come." "Can't," the girl was going to say, but her gaze rested upon the doll lying on the grass where it fell from Phronsie's hand. "Lawks! may I just have one good squint at that?" she burst out. "You may hold it," said Phronsie, bobbing her head till her yellow hair fell over her flushed cheeks.
Now I'm quite at home, for I've plenty of courage except about death, and I'm worse about death than I was when I was a simple body with a gawk's "lawks!" in her round eyes and mouth for an egg. I wonder why that is? But isn't death horrible? And skeletons! The duchess shuddered. 'It depends upon the skeleton, said Beau Beamish, who had joined the conversation.
"Lawks, William," says I, "speak out." "Well," says he, "Mrs Prendergast, it's a strange wedding, it is! There's the ladies all alone in the withdrawing-room, and there's the gentlemen calling for more wine, and cursing and swearing that it's awful to hear. It's my belief that swords will be drawn afore long." "Tut!" says I, "William, it will come the sooner if you don't give them what they want.
Refreshed by my ablutions, I was nothing loath to follow him to the kitchen, where a red-faced little dumpling of a cook set before me such a breakfast as would have made Mistress Pennyquick stare. "Eat away," she said, setting her arms akimbo and eying me up and down as I ravenously began my meal. "Lawks!
Her light brown hair was fluffed out on her shoulders, so that he felt a kind of fainting-sweet sensation, and murmured inarticulately: "Oh! I say how jolly!" "Lawks! It's awful! Have you come to see mother?" Balanced between fear and daring, conscious of a scent of hay and verbena and camomile, Bob Pillin stammered: "Ye-es. I I'm glad she's not in, though."
I always tell her that her mission in life is to run a creche or should be. Lawks! How she will envy me when I get that boy of yours to look after!" Guthrie's feet seemed to take tight hold of the ground.
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