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But yow'd best keep yer eye on 'im, on my say so. He'll pinch sommat o' yow'n yet afore 'e's done." The Colonel, who was toasting his toes at a roaring fire, rose as I followed Margaret towards him. He made me a precise and formal bow, which I imitated farmer fashion.
Her husband offended her, and she so disliked living with him afterwards that she went away to London with her little maid. The Fawleys were not made for wedlock: it never seemed to sit well upon us. There's sommat in our blood that won't take kindly to the notion of being bound to do what we do readily enough if not bound. That's why you ought to have hearkened to me, and not ha' married."
"What the hell does he mean?" he asked, appealing to the company. "Damn my bones if I know," answered the host. "I've 'eerd parson say sommat like it in church a Sundays. He's one of these 'ere silly scholards." "They do say as how Swift Nicks is a scholard," put in the ostler wisely. "There's no time for chattering," said I. "Take me at once before a justice. That's the law, and you know it.
As far as that chiel Christian is concerned I might as well have stayed at home and seed nothing, like all the rest of ye here. Though, as far as myself is concerned, a dashing spirit has counted for sommat, to be sure!" "Don't ye let me down so, father; I feel no bigger than a ninepin after it. I've made but a bruckle hit, I'm afeard." "Come, come.
Mrs Gabbon had evidently “’eard sommat” from Mr Duggs, and treated him to little of her society. The boredom became so excessive that he decided he must make a move soon, however rash it was. The only active step he took, and indeed the only step he saw his way to take, was a call on Dr Twiddel’s locum. But luck seemed to run dead against him.
But one of 'em cocks up his nose, an' he says, 'We're like a character in the Bible, are we? Well, he says, 'who was he? "'You're like the wild ass that sniffed up the wind instead of goin' in for sommat more substantial, I says. That's what I told 'em. They did look down their noses, I tell you. An' they fell to talkin' i' Irish. They couldn't answer me, do what they would."
But, instead of sticking to such principles, you must needs push up, so as to get girls such as you were once to curtsey to you, not even thinking marriage with a bad man too great a price to pay for't. 'A bad man? What do you mean by that? Lord Mountclere is rather old, but he's worthy. What did you mean, Sol? 'Nothing a mere sommat to say.
Telling wi' mun, a bit. Oh dear, dear, dear!" "Has he killed him?" cried poor Rose. "No, fegs, no! kecking mun, kecking mun, so hard as ever was futeball! Goodness, Father, who did ever? If a haven't kecked mun right into river, and got on mun's horse and rod away!" And so saying, down she came again. "And now then, my dear life, us be better to goo hoom and get you sommat warm.
At the end of a minute a dull splashing reverberated from the bottom of the well; the helical twist he had imparted to the rope had reached the grapnel below. "Haul!" said Fairway; and the men who held the rope began to gather it over the wheel. "I think we've got sommat," said one of the haulers-in. "Then pull steady," said Fairway.
"After his private talk with Master Mayor," she added, "that worthy man's knees were as hard worked as the hinges of an ale-house door." "The poor cringeling is but a grocer," said I, as we turned in under the archway of the "Rising Sun." The host saw us through the kitchen window, and ran out to usher us in with the assurance of a brass weathercock. "Sommat like a jail delivery, eh, y'r 'onour?
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