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'What is it? he roared again, 'or I'll make your backs as hot as a roasted pig's! And on this, Lawrence reg'larly blubbered out: 'The devil, sir; the devil is in the cabin playing at double dummy "put!" You should have heard Old Goss's laugh at this. They might have heard it ashore at Yarmouth. Just as it stopped, the sound of the knuckles came up through the skylight.
We knowed it was comin'; it gived us good warnin' and left us plenty of time to get ready for it; so Mr Barker the lieutenant in command gived orders to send the yards and both topmasts down on deck, and rig in the jib-boom; and then he stripped her down to a close-reefed boom foresail. But we capsized reg'larly `turned turtle' when the gale struck us, and only five of us lived to tell the tale.
But it's late, said Martin, checking himself, 'and you are weak and tired, I know. You only talk to cheer me up. Good night! God bless you, Mark! 'God bless you, sir! But I'm reg'larly defrauded, thought Mr Tapley, turning round with a happy face. 'It's a swindle. I never entered for this sort of service. There'll be no credit in being jolly with HIM!
"Well, Malcolm's a crank always was one, I reckon, and is reg'larly off his head now. Yes, sir; Scotch whiskey and your friend Sir James finished him. After that dinner at MacFen's he was done for went wild. Danced a sword-dance, or a strathspey, or some other blamed thing, on the table, and yelled louder than the pipes. So they all did.
"Thought you meant to shoot me, sir," said Pete, picking up the gun and covering a dint he had made in the stock, as he stared down at the object that was now dying fast. "Well, it's of no good now. You've reg'larly spoiled it." "Do you know what that is?" I said, with my heart beating fast. "Course I do," he said with a laugh. "Snake." "Yes, the most deadly snake out here.
The suitor moved uneasily, and Rosalie shot a reproachful glance at Anderson, a glance full of mischief as well. "He writes occasionally, daddy." "I didn't know you corresponded reg'larly," said Blootch. "I did not say regularly, Blucher." "He writes sweet things to beat the band, I bet," said Blootch with a disdain he did not feel. "What a good guesser you are!" she cried tormentingly.
"Nay, he aren't a whale, sir; but from the games he's playing he might be a shark four or five foot long. I'll tire him out though. I say, sir, you ought to be glad you aren't got hold; line reg'larly cuts into my hand. Look at that now. I say, sir, we shan't want for something on the table. Strikes me there hasn't been anyone fishing here lately."
"Oh, pooh! he has not deserted." "I don't know, sir," said Jerry, dubiously. "Look here, Brigley: I don't often use bad language, but if you talk like that, confound you! I shall swear at you." "I wish you would, sir," said Jerry. "What?" "I say I wish you would, sir. It would seem to do me good like, for I'm reg'larly upset about Smithson, sir." "There, I beg your pardon, Brigley.
He stopped when he had got to the end of the passage, and walking quietly back, thrust his head in at the parlour door. 'Sir, whispered Sam. 'Well, Sam, said Mr. Pickwick. 'I fully understands my instructions, do I, Sir? inquired Sam. 'I hope so, said Mr. Pickwick. 'It's reg'larly understood about the knockin' down, is it, Sir? inquired Sam. 'Perfectly, replied Pickwick. 'Thoroughly.
"She, you know, you was reg'larly sick after, so that we always allowed she kinder turned yo' brain afore you went away! Well! all the while you were courtin' her it appears she was secretly married to Jo yo' friend Jo Stacy. Lord! there was a talk about that! and about yo' all along thinkin' yo' had chances!
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