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"Don't you mean for a girl?" "Aw, not much! Such a lydy, Miss! Fine, an' tall, and wonnerful to look at. They said she could sing like a hangel, that she could. Miss Ida Bellethorne, she was. She ought've been a lord's daughter, she ought." "What became of her?" asked the puzzled Betty. "I don't know, Miss. I don't rightly know what became of all the family.
"Am I gawing slowly enough, lydy?" asked the cabman, anxiously. "Yes, but you can let him trot along now." "Right, lydy, I ain't preventing of him." As eventually they scrambled slowly forward in the Kensington direction, Lady Enid remarked, "Why don't you have them sent to Jellybrand's?" "Have what?" asked the Prophet. "Your telegrams. The messages from your double life. I do."
"I say," she repeated. "You buy toy dogs, eh?" "I buys 'em and I sells 'em," answered the old man, with a large accent on the conjunction. "Buys 'em dear and sells 'em cheap. There's a wy to mike a living, lydy!" His small eyes twinkled with humour as he spoke. Cuckoo swallowed again. The ball in her throat was getting larger. "Want to buy one this morning?" she asked. "A show little dog, eh?"
Well, it's the bleakest I've seen yet, an' I've been to Brighton and Blackpool. Travelled quite a lot, I 'ave, Miss. The lydy who read me 'and said I would, for me teeth are so wide apart." Which cryptic saying puzzled Pamela until Priorsford was reached, when other things engaged her attention. There was another passenger for Priorsford in the London express.
They keep the stuff on draught 'ere, and not bad by 'arf for South Africa. 'Ere, you, Mister! Two chams for self and the young lydy, an' look slippy!" The brimming glasses of sparkling, creaming fluid, juice of vines that never grew in the historic soil of France, were passed over the bar.
I seed your kind frequent. But 'e stuck to it, an' says, 'It's stryght, an' a lydy will come for you to-morrer, if you'll be 'ere on this spot, or tell me w'ere you can be found. An' Lou says, says she, 'You buy my flowers, so's I kin git me bread-baskit full, an' then I'll think it over. An' he bought 'er flowers, an' give 'er five bob.
Now and then but this is rare one hears such words as piper for paper, lydy for lady, and tyble for table fall from lips whence one would not expect such pronunciations to come. There is a superstition prevalent in Sydney that this pronunciation is an Australianism, but people who have been "home" as the native reverently and lovingly calls England know better. It is "costermonger."
Here we lay up, secure in our alibi. "But your firm," the woman was wailing to the furniture removals men "your firm promised me everything should be in yesterday. And it's to-day! You should have been here yesterday!" "The last tenants ain't out yet, lydy," said one of them.
"Say 'bain't. Don't say 'The young lydy, she came rahnd to our plice; say 'The missy, 'er coomed down; 'er coomed, and 'er ses to the maister, 'er ses . . . That's the sort of thing I want to surround myself with here. When you informed me that the cow was mine, you should have said: 'Whoi, 'er be your cow, surelie 'er be." "Sure it's Berkshire?" demanded Hopkins. "You're confident about it?"
A free an' easy gentleman, 'e was; 'e liked 'is dinner with a few friends an' them jolly, but 'e wasn't much on what you might call big affairs. But once 'e went in for Lydy Elling 'e broke 'imself to new paces; He give away 'is rings an' pins, an' the tylor's man an' the 'aberdasher's man was at 'is rooms continual.
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