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"Susan Clarke, Markis o' Granby, Dorking," says my father; "she'll have me, if I ask. I des-say I never said nothing to her, but she'll have me, I know." The licence was made out, and she DID have him, and what's more she's got him now; and I never had any of the four hundred pound, worse luck.
'E'll be a dook, if a kid pegs out as is expected to, and anyhow 'e'll be a markis, and 'e means the straight thing no errer. It ain't fair for me to stand in 'er way." "Well," I says, "you know your own business, but it seems to me she wouldn't have much way to stand in if it hadn't been for you." "Oh, that's all right," he says.
What sud my name be but Bawby Catanach? Ye're unco upsettin' sin' ye turned my leddy's flunky! Sorrow taik ye baith! My dawtit Beauty! worriet by that hell tyke o' hers!" "Gien ye gang on like that, the markis 'll hae ye drummed oot o' the toon or twa days be ower," said Malcolm. "Wull he than?" she returned with a confident sneer, showing all the teeth she had left.
When the deft, brown fingers of Otti Markis became clumsy at her machine, and her wage slumped unaccountably from sixteen to six dollars a week, it was in Emma's quiet little office that it became clear why Otti's eyes were shadowed and why Otti's mouth drooped so pathetically. Emma prescribed a love philter made up of common sense, understanding, and world-wisdom.
She entered the cave, tumbled over one of the forms, and gave a cry coupled with an imprecation. "The deevil roast them 'at laid me sic a trap!" she said. "I hae broken the shins the auld markis laudit!" "Hold your wicked tongue!" hissed a voice in return, almost in Phemy's very ear.
It was nothing like the sensation of her later efforts. She wasn't ready, and Hahn knew it. Mizzi and her middle-aged woman companion were installed at the Blackstone Hotel, which is just next door to the Blackstone Theatre, as any one is aware who knows Chicago. She was advertised as the Polish comedienne, Mizzi Markis, and the announcements hinted at her royal though remote ancestry.
"An' gien the markis daur to cross me in 't," said Malcolm at last, as he ended, "lat him leuk till himsel', for it's no at a buffet or twa I wad stick, gien the puir laird was intill 't."
"The Marquis of Arondelle," repeated Salome in a low reverent tone, as if speaking to herself. "Ay, the young Markis o' Arondelle; wae worth the day he went awa'!" said the housekeeper, wiping her eyes. Salome turned suddenly to the weeping woman. "I have heard I have heard " she began in a low, hesitating voice, and then she suddenly stopped and looked at the dame.
The relating of the story of how Tony Weller was driven into his second marriage, which reveals "La Belle Sauvage" as his headquarters, also first brings into prominence the "Markis o' Granby," Dorking, as the residence of Mrs. Susan Clarke, and incidentally the scene of more than one amusing incident after she became Mrs. Weller, senior. "The 'Marquis of Granby' in Mrs.
An' me, 'eaven forgive me, thinkin' 'im out o' 'is mind when 'e wrote to 'em an' said they was 'is friends. There was 'is lordship the Markis o' Dawne, and 'is two sisters, an' that other great lady what is with 'em so much.
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