But ye're a queer lad, she said softly, 'the way ye stick to a fushionless character like him. I was tellin' Miss Tod, she continued, 'aboot 'Oor engagement! he burst out, scarlet. 'Whist, man! ye've a wild imagination! aboot ye enlistin'. She's been in a state o' patriotic tremulosity ever since. Dinna be surprised if she tries for to kiss ye.
The delight which Miss Millet, experienced in meeting with her old friend Jeffrey Benson was displayed in the vivacity of her reception of him and the tremulosity of her little cap. "It's just like coming home, auntie may I still venture to call you so?" Jeff had been wont to sit on a stool at the good lady's feet. He did so now on the old stool. "You may call me what you please, Jeff.
It is true there were large proportions of brown humanity presented to view such as arms, legs, necks, and chests, but these were picturesquely interspersed with striped cotton drawers, duck trousers, gay guernseys, red and blue flannel petticoats, numerous caps and straw hats as well as a few coal-scuttles though none of the latter could match that of Betsy Waroonga for size and tremulosity.
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