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"She won't speak!" cried another. "She just lies there trembling, with her face in her hands." "But she said, 'O Christ! when we took her from the water," put in a third. "She was nigh drowned," ended the constable. "And I'm a-tremble myself, the water was that cold. Wauns! I wish I were in the chimney corner at the Court House ordinary!"
Baker was merely rehearsing Falstaff; but the two men made up their little minds that he had lost his head, and they felt quite sure that their employer was a dangerous lunatic, when he gave them a piercing glance, and cried: "Soft! who are you? Sir Walter Blunt: there's honour for you! here's no vanity! I am as hot as molten lead, and as heavy too. God keep lead out of me!" "Wauns!
MR. BULLOCK. What, a goold snuff-box? Wauns, but thee WAST in luck, Corporal! CORPORAL. No, not the snuff-box, but A PINCH OF SNUFF, ha! ha! run me through the body if he didn't. Could you but have seen the smile on Jack Churchill's grave face at this piece of generosity! So, beckoning Colonel Cadogan up to him, he pinched his Ear and whispered
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