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"Oh, well," he would conclude, casting bleared eyes in the direction of the house, wearily, "I got soom vino inside. You coom along now. We go gettin' a drink." Which would close the monologue. One morning early, Felipe, asleep on a bed that never was made up, heard suspicious sounds in the corral outside. He sprang up and, clad only in a fiery-red undershirt, hurried to a window.
And the finger-wringing malcontent who had vowed to "soom"; the editorial pencil had altered that to "sue 'em," thereby robbing it of its special flavor. Perhaps this was in accordance with some occult rule of the trade. But it spoiled the paragraph for Banneker. Nevertheless he was thrilled and elate.... He wanted to show the article to Io. What would she think of it?
"Naw," said Jim Greatorex's kinswoman, "if you want Greatorex to sing for you as bad as all that, Miss Cartaret, you'd better speak to the doctor." Rowcliffe became suddenly grave. He watched the door. "He'd mebbe do it for him. He sats soom store by Dr. Rawcliffe." "But" Ally's voice sounded nearer "he's gone, hasn't he?" "Naw. But he's joost goin'. Shall I catch him?" "You might." Mrs.
'Twice a year so his clerk towd me Christmas an Midsummer. Praps we shan't want to use it aw, Hannah; praps we might save soom on it for t' childer. Their keep, iv yo feed em on parritch, is nobbut a fleabite, an they'n got a good stock o' cloos, Sandy's nurse towd me. He looked anxiously at Hannah.
Then out of sheer nervousness she blundered into the harshest possible answer. "Well, they said that Mr. Helbeck could do no different, that he did it to save his sister from knowing " "Knowing what?" said Laura. Polly declared that she wasn't just certain. "A set o' slanderin backbitin tabbies as soom o' them Catholics is!" But she believed they said that Mr.
'Theer's soom bits o' owd books i' th' top-attic, she said to David; 'I'll leave 'em in t' stable, an when we coom home, I'll tie 'em on my back under my dress an she may leather away till Christmas.
"I'll tell yo' where soom on us might goa, Muster Faversham," said another older man, removing the pipe he had been stolidly smoking; "theer's two farmhouses o' Melrose's, within half a mile o' this place shut oop noabody there. They're big houses yan o' them wor an' owd manor-house, years agone. A body might put oop five or six families in 'em at a pinch.
I'm fair tired oot! Nelly exclaimed indignantly. 'Was it their religion made them behave like that? 'Religion! Mrs. Grayson laughed. 'Well, they was only the yan Sunday here but they took no account o't, whativer. They went motorin' all day; an niver set foot in church or chapel. They belong to soom Society or other I couldna tell what. But we'll not talk o' them ony more, Mrs.
'Louie! she called imperatively, 'tak un out soom bread-an-drippin. Louie put some on a plate, and went out with it to the cowhouse, where David sat on a stool, occupying himself in cutting the pages of a number of the Vegetarian News, lent him in Clough End, with trembling hands, while a fierce red spot burnt in either cheek.
Soom toimes i' t' year theer's a lot doin, yo knaw, sir, even on a bit place like ours, and he ha gitten a good schoolin, he ha. The apologetic incoherence of the little speech was curious. Mr. Ancrum did not exactly know how to take his man. 'I dare say he's useful. But he's not going to be the ordinary labourer, Mr.
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