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The footman put down the tumbler which he was in the act of raising to his pouted lips. "Assistance, Mr. Ferdinand!" he ejaculated. "Mrs. Merillia, Mr. Ferdinand!" "She may we say she may have to be carried to bed, Gustavus." Gustavus's jaw dropped, and the French Revolution fluttered in his startled hands. "Good lawks, Mr. "Have an armchair ready in the hall, Gustavus. Mrs.
"So your master is away from home, my lass," he said, in his most insinuating tone, as he slowly stirred his brandy-and-water. "Yes, he be, sir." "Do you know when he's coming back?" inquired Larkspur. "Lawks, no, sir." "Or where he's gone?" "No, sir, I don't know that neither. My master's a good one to hold his tongue, he is. He never tells nobody nothing, in a manner of speaking."
"Lawks! no, sir!" wheezed Mrs. Bensusan, shaking her head. "I've never set eyes on him since he went. 'Ave you, Rhoda?" Whereat the girl shook her head also, and watched Lucian with an intensity of gaze which somewhat discomposed him. "Did he owe you any money when he went, Mrs. Bensusan?" "No, sir. He paid up like a gentleman. I always thought well of Mr. Wrent."
But Billy cut him loose and caught his horse and set him on it, and got this piece for his good charity. Lawks! but he was glad to be gone. How he did gallop! 'Now you are a bigger fool even than I thought you, Billy Minns, I said in anger. 'That man would have murdered me, I overcame him and made him fast, and you have let him go. 'He would have murdered you, Master, and you made him fast!
"Lawks!" said the woman; "well, well! poor young gentleman, I'm afeard he's been doing something bad." Balmily and beautiful the evening fell, as Eric, not without toil, made his way along the road towards Ayrton, which was ten miles off.
Mat. But what sort of lady, Sue? The poor girl may fancy herself a lady, but only till she's left in the dirt. That sort of gentleman makes fine speeches to your face, and calls you horrid names behind your back. Sue, dear, don't have a word to say to one of them if he speaks ever so soft. Sus. Lawks, Mattie! they ain't all one sort. Mat. You won't have more than one sort to choose from.
Kindly lead me at once to the telescope. I will take his place. No one shall say that Madame Malkiel ever flinched at duty's call. Praesto et persistibus. Conduct me at once to the telescope." "The telescope!" cried the Prophet. "What for?" "Lawks!" cried Madame, with pronounced temper. "Did we not journey from the Mouse a-purpose to go practically into the mystery of the dressed Crab?"
At one point in the thrilling narrative she became intensely excited, and when Ruth tried in sepulchral tones to imitate John Gunter's gruff voice, she exclaimed, "Oh! lawks!" in such a gasp that the three ladies leaped up with three shrieks like three conscience-smitten kittens caught in a guilty act! Liffie was rebuked, but from pity, or perhaps sympathy, was allowed to remain to hear the end.
"There are no such things as ghosts; and, besides, I don't see anything at all but the fog and the water!" "Oh, lawks, Master Bob!" screamed the frightened Dick in answer to this. "Look t'other side and then you'll p'r'aps believe me. Look t'other side! Look t'other side! I bees afeered! I bees afeered!"
One of the convicts outside had done something that produced this effect on the onlookers. "Lawks! see the shaved hound, what he's doing," said the red-haired woman, her whole fat body shaking with laughter; and leaning against the grating she shouted meaning less obscene words. "Ugh, the fat fright's cackling," said Korableva, who disliked the red-haired woman.
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