ro-o-o-ope

Updated: May 13, 2025

I don't know whether Puddock saw them Cluffe certainly did not. 'Hallo! hallo! a rope! cried Cluffe, who had hit upon this desperate expedient for raising the neighbourhood. 'A rope a rope! hallo! hallo! a ro-o-o-ope! And Aunt Becky, who heard the wild whooping, mistook it for drunken fellows at their diversions, and delivered her sentiments in the drawing-room accordingly.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - The House by the Church-Yard