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We both had masks on, and it wasn't puzzlin' to guess what we was there fur. "'Jerry Hammond, says I, speakin' rather rough and husky, 'we knows that you've got a lot o' money in this house, and we've come fur it.
'Tis terrible puzzlin'. You don't know me, I dessay." "No, I don't." "I be called Abe Bricknell A-bra-ham Bricknell. I used to be Na'mi's husband, one time. There now" with an accent of genuine contrition "I felt sure 'twould put you out." The tongue grew dry in William Geake's mouth, and the sunlight died off the road before him.
She leaned out beyond the edge of it; and then, at moments she vanished altogether behind it. Since Mr. Lander would not speak, and made no sign of starting up his horse, Mrs. Lander added, "I presume you must be used to havin' people ask about the road, if it's so puzzlin'." "O, yes'm," returned the girl, gladly. "Almost every day, in the summatime."
Jason cleared his throat. "Well, ye see, doctor," he began, "somethin' ails me, an' I ain't quite sure what 't is. I 've been poorly since last spring, but it's been kind of puzzlin'. Now, fur instance: I had a pain in my knee, so I felt sure 'twas hip-disease, but it jumped ter my shoulder, so 'course then I knew 't was my liver." The doctor made a sudden movement.
He had not observed this overnight. "Silly of me!" said Bert. "'Ere I was puzzlin' and whackin' away at the padlock, never noticing." It had been used apparently as an ice-chest, but it contained nothing now but the remains of half-dozen boiled chickens, some ambiguous substance that might once have been butter, and a singularly unappetising smell. He closed the lid again carefully.
You see it's heaps upon heaps of thousands, for the thousands come first and the billions afterwards; but when I've thought uncommon hard, for a long spell at a time, I always get confused, because millions comes in between, d'ye see, and that's puzzlin'."
Total takin's four, three, three less 'ire of 'all, four-an'-six " "I can read figures an' print," owned Tilda, "but 'andwriting's too much for me; an' yours, I dare say, isn' none o' the best." "I've improved it a lot at the night school. But what is it puzzlin' you?" he asked, looking up as he counted. She held out the book, but not as he had handed it.
Here's me, a perfessional lawyer, so ter speak, bin puzzlin' my head over that alleged crime f'r days on end, an' never c'd make top nor tail of it; an' you, settin' idle at this yer camp fire, have solved it as easy an' as slick 's you might cipher out a sum in simple arithmetic." Kiddie shrugged his shoulders.
"Well, when I'd putt you in the school an' paid the first quarter in advance, an' told 'em that the correspondence would be done chiefly through your mother, I went back to London, puzzlin' my mind all the way what I'd say to your mother for what I'd done. Once it came into my head I would ax her to marry me for she was a widow by that time an' so make the deception true.
But you see when a man's got brains himself, there's no knowing where they'll run to; an' a pleasant sort o' soft woman may go on breeding you stupid lads and 'cute wenches, till it's like as if the world was turned topsy-turvy. It's an uncommon puzzlin' thing." Mr. Riley's gravity gave way, and he shook a little under the application of his pinch of snuff before he said,
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