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Why, thou knows, we've hed some tussles wi' them ourselves; and Americans are our children, I reckon." "Then Texans are your grandchildren; Texas is an American colony." "They hed t' sense to choose a varry fine country, it seems. If I was young again, I'd travel and see more o' t' world. But when I was thy age folks thought t' sun rose and set i' England; that they did."
Its varry pratty men is the French; and jist when I stopt the cart, the time when ye was pushing on in front it was, to kape the riglers in, a rigiment of the jontlemen marched by, and so I dealt them out to their liking. Was it pay I got? Sure did I, and in good solid crowns; the divil a bit of continental could they muster among them all, for love nor money.
You may go dancin' along t' first; the last is often varry narrow and steep." "But one can't help wondering why." "If it wasn't narrow, and varry narrow, too, Miss Hallam, fenced in, and watchmen set all along it, we'd be strayin' far and near, and ivery one o' us going our own way.
She stared at the forest of chimney-tops without speaking, for several minutes, then suddenly turned towards him, speaking in what was evidently supposed to be a lifelike imitation of the English accent, as spoken by the Lady of the Manor. "Th-anks; aw-fly tha-anks! How varry kind! I shall be charmed. ... Too aw-fly sweet of you, don't-cher-know!" "That's all right!" laughed Guest, happily.
"I remember reading of a good man who, when he was dying, said to some presence invisible to mortal eyes, 'Go! and tell my dead, I come!" "I would like to send a message to my father and mother, and to my dear wife, and my dead son, Edward. It would be a varry pleasant thing to see a face you know and loved after that dark journey." "I have read that
"Thou sees, Whaley, I hev saved a good bit o' money, and I gave Antony t' best education Oxford could hand over for it; and I reckoned on him getting into Parliament, and makkin' a bit o' a stir there, and building up t' old name wi' a deal o' honor." "Varry good; but strike t' nail that'll go!
They ought to be in some kind of a home, making happiness and bringing up boys and girls. Look at the whimpering, puny, sick babies factory women bear God, how I pity them!" "Tell me the truth, Mrs. Brent. Were you really glad to have ten children?" "To be sure, I was glad. Every one of them was varry welcome.
He pointed to a low-roofed house set amidst elms and chestnuts, some distance off across the moor. "Lives theer, does Mestur Shepherd varry well-to-do man, he is." "How could that water be drained off?" asked Byner with assumed carelessness. "Easy enough!" replied Pickard. "Cut through yon ledge, and let it run into t' far quarry there. A couple o' men 'ud do that job in a day."
"Fontaine." "It's a varry Frenchified name. I should think he'd be glad to get rid o' it. Where is he now? At Hallam?" "He is in t' Holy Land somewhere." "Is he a parson?" "No, he's a planter; and a bit o' a lawyer, too." "Whativer does he want in t' Holy Land, then?" "He's wi' a Bishop." "Ay? Then he's pious?" "For sure; he's a Methodist." "That's not bad. Squire Gregory was a Methodist.
"Dat is pitty; for I have been for shome toime past in Ingerlaand, but I not learn ze langwage. Ze Ingerleesh varry difficolt." "You seemed," I replied, "to have overcome that difficulty, and you speak it with a pretty good accent."
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