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"What you doin' with it, anyway?" she demanded, elbows jutted ominously; "it's lost a eye, an' a cat got it once an' sp'iled it some, but I treasure it fer reasons o' sentiment, an' if you think you c'n steal it " "Not 'im, ma'am, not 'im!" piped the Old Un from the doorway, "it ain't the pore lad's fault.
So Hodge wrote a polite, though firm, epistle, telling his Satanic Majesty he would have no more to do with him. On being asked where he posted his letter, he replied: "A' dug a hole i' the ground, and popped un in there. He got it right enough, for he's left me alone from that day to this."
He is going, and so am I, in the course of the autumn, to your old friends the Westboroughs. Report says that he is un peu epris de la belle Flore; but, then, Report is such a liar! For my own part I always contradict her. I eagerly embrace your offer of correspondence, and assure you that there are few people by whose friendship I conceive myself so much honoured as by yours.
For a boy of ten, you would have to punch the '0' as well as the '10, I suppose, to make sure he isn't older and the extra years forgotten." "That's the reason exactly." "The meaning of the section next to the age is easy, too," Hamilton continued. "'S' for Single, 'M' for Married, 'Wd' for Widowed, 'D' for Divorced, 'Un' for unknown, any one could guess.
"I think I've seen her before." "Very like, missie," answered Moore; "that was Lady Dacre from the Towers yonder." He turned into the stable-yard, helped Iris carefully down, and said slowly, as though he were continuing a previous speech: "And I take it main kind of yer, missie, to have fetched the stuff for the little un."
"If he comes at un whilst they's in harness they won't have a chanst to dodge he!" Toby threw the komatik upon its side, with its nose against an ice hummock as an anchorage, and observing this maneuver, the bear resumed all fours and began a retreat with a lumbering, but astonishingly rapid gait, toward the northward. "Go after he and shoot!"
"No," said Bob, to Dexter's great relief. "I'll give you a pound for her, and my old 'un chucked in," said the man. "It's more than she's worth, but I know a man who wants such a boat as that." "You mustn't sell her, Bob," whispered Dexter, who was now in agony. "You hold your row. I know what I'm a-doing of."
The very day that witnessed the forming of my resolutions witnessed also the breaking of them. "Hullo, young 'un!" cried Doubleday, as I put in my appearance at the office; "here you are! How are you after it all?" "I'm quite well," said I, in what I intended to be a chilly voice. "That's right. Very brickish of you to have us up. We all thought so, didn't we, Crow?" "Rather," replied Crow.
"We leaves un over at Tom Ham's whilst we were at the fishin' in summer," explained Toby. "Tom Ham lives at Lucky Bight, ten miles to the nuth'ard from here. We'll be goin' for un soon now." "It must be fun traveling with dogs," said Charley. "Aye, 'tis that," agreed Toby, "when the weather's fair and the travelin' is good.
The Danes had christened me Doctor Teology, and dressed as I was all in black, with large shoes and black worsted stockings, I might certainly have passed very well for a Methodist missionary. However I disclaimed my title. What then may you be? A man of fortune? No! A merchant? No! A merchant's traveller? No! A clerk? No! Un Philosophe, perhaps?
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