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Miss Ophelia tried the recipe, and Topsy invariably made a terrible commotion, screaming, groaning and imploring, though half an hour afterwards, when roosted on some projection of the balcony, and surrounded by a flock of admiring "young uns," she would express the utmost contempt of the whole affair. "Law, Miss Feely whip! wouldn't kill a skeeter, her whippins.
When she had finished, she wrote the verses on a sheet of paper, which she folded in a piece of gold-embroidered silk and laid under her pillow. Now one of her nurses saw her; so she came up to her and held her in talk, till she slept, when she stole the scroll from under her pillow and reading it, knew that she had fallen in love with Uns el Wujoud.
Friday, we dine at Judge Budge's; Saturday I am going down to Marblehead to look after the hay. Come on Monday, Tom, and I'll introduce you to the missus and the young uns." "I will bring Clive," says Colonel Newcome, rather disturbed at this reception. "After his illness my sister-in-law was very kind to him."
'You can reckon on me, that's certain, and on Cook, that's certain too. As for the young uns, we can get round them! They'll eat what they're given. But you'll have to go careful with the Squire. Miss Bremerton smiled and nodded. They stood colloguing in the twilight for ten minutes more. 'I say, Pamela, who is this female, and why has she descended on us? The speaker was Desmond Mannering.
My mother called me that, but Jography 'ull fit fine jest now. You two call me Jography, young uns." "And please, Jography," asked Cecile, "are you going to stay in France now you have come?" "Well, I rather guess I am. I didn't take all the trouble to run away to go back again, I can tell you. And now might I ax you what you two mites is arter?"
He can't sing a song, except somethin' about 'Tejus an' tasteless hours, that nobody ever heard before, an' don't want to agin; he don't drink, he don't play keards, he don't even cuss when he tumbles into the river. Ev'ry man's got his p'ints, an' ef he hain't got no good uns, he's sure to have bad uns.
He says the horrid work is give to him, carving the names on the stones and killing the half-dead 'uns, but course he has to do it 'cos Iris says so. Course we all obey Iris. When it is a pwivate funeral, the dead 'un is put into the ground and covered up, and it don't have a gravestone; then of course, by and by, it is forgot. You underland; don't you, father?" "Bless me if I do," said Mr.
However, I don't think it can be done; it would be setting a bad example to the young uns, and the chances are ten to one we should run against one of the masters." "Hardly likely, I should think," Travers said; "it would be shocking bad luck to run against one of them in a crowd like that."
There's three Lewis young uns, too, besides the baby, and I tell ye, they're a wild lot. I'd rayther tackle them wolves that you'n Crow Wing got mixed up with last winter. Seen the Injin since?" "Not since I sent him home with more money than he had ever seen before in his life," replied Enoch. "Very foolish of you! We might have had some of his pelts just as well's not."
Her bain't like one of us. Willyum. Her do be that fond of zoap and water. Happen she might be a real grand lady by birth, bor. Enter Rachel, beautifully dressed in the sort of costume in which one would go to a fancy-dress ball as a village maiden. It would serve you right if I never tied your tie for you again. Eh, lass, yer du keep us old 'uns in order.
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