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"I'll have to put that there notion in my pipe and smoke it," he said. "I'd fight any mounseer, or Dutchman, or Portuguee as soon as look at him, 'tis on'y natural; but if a mounseer likes to give me twopence for a thing that's worth a penny why, I'll say thank 'ee and axe him leastways if there's any matey by as knows the lingo to buy another."
Mounseer only made believe to pound it up, and now all that concerns us is to find it." That was indeed all not only all, but too much. We searched everything. We looked in all the jars and under all the moveables. We took the cover off the chair; we cleared the table; but without success.
'Thou'rt going to meet the mounseer, my lad? said he, half as affirmation, half as question. 'No, sir; I sent off James almost immediately with a note declining it. I don't care about it that's to say, not to signify. 'Why did you take me up so sharp, Roger? said his father pettishly. 'You all take me up so hastily now-a-days.
I have also letter to write; you take it and I vill give two shillings more." "All right, mounseer, I will wait your pleasure, and promise to post your letter," answered Tom.
It was soon evident that there were two people on the ground, struggling in a deadly embrace but which was friend or foe, was the question. They had tight hold of each other's throats, and were actually throttling each other. "You catch hold of one, Mr Morton," whispered Job, who had recognised Ronald. "I'll take t'other, and then we'll settle with the mounseer, whichever he may be."
"Mounseer Gillflower," replied Joseph; "and he was very kind to me." "I am a Frenchman, Joseph; and, if you don't want to go fishing, I will employ you to take care of my boat, and carry my valise to a hotel," continued the detective, as he handed an English sovereign to him, for he had taken care to provide himself with a store of them in New York.
The tinker was seated under a hedge, hammering away at an old kettle, with a little fire burning in front of him, and the donkey hard by, indulging in a placid doze. Mr. Sprott looked up as Lenny passed, nodded kindly, and said, "Good evenin', Lenny: glad to hear you be so 'spectably sitivated with Mounseer."
'Things would have turned out pretty different for you, Mary, if she had. You'd have been married to a French "mounseer" by now, and he laughed a little, as if there was something exceedingly funny in the idea. Mr. Fairchild did not often laugh. 'Maybe, his wife replied, smiling. 'I do hope they'll have a French governess, said Celestina. 'Who? oh, the Miss Vanes, said her father.
'Ere I takes up a blessed son of a pop-gun what calls hisself anything you care to mention, and turns out to be a blessed mounseer at the end of it! 'Ere 'ave I been drivin' of him up and down all day, a-carrying off of gals, a-shootin' of pistyils, and a-drinkin' of sherry and hale; and wot does he up and give me but a blank, blank, blanketing blank!
If it hadn't been for Caesar, I never should have found ye, for not a foot farther could I have stirred without some food; an', sure, that's what I've not had since yesterday mornin'." My first inquiry was as to where our friends were encamped. "Faith, Mr. Maurice, that's jist what I cannot tell," he answered. "I set off to try an' find ye as soon as Mounseer Jolly an' Mr.
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