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"Wha' d' ye s'pose thet air thing's made uv?" he inquired after a little silence. "Silver," said I. "Pure silver?" "Undoubtedly," was my answer. "Judas Priest!" said he, taking out his wallet again, to look at the trophy. "Thet air mus' be wuth suthin'." "More than a year's salary," said I. He looked up at me with a sharp whistle of surprise.
"And wha is his heir, think ye?" continued his questioner. "Why, Charles Napier, his nephew," answered the writer, somewhat carelessly. "I'm no just a'thegither sure of that, Mr. Dallas," said she, with another effort at dignity, which was unfortunately qualified by a knowing wink.
Milnwood, entertaining no thought or purpose of parting with his nephew, who was, moreover, very useful to him in many respects, was thunderstruck at this abrupt declaration of independence from a person whose deference to him had hitherto been unlimited. He recovered himself, however, immediately. "And wha do you think is to give you the means, young man, for such a wild-goose chase?
A lanky young man, his clothing gray with flour dust, came from the back door of the mill and hastened under the dripping trees to reach the porch of the farmhouse. He stood there, smiling broadly at them, as Ruth and Tom hurriedly crossed the yard. "Good day, Mr. Tom," said Ben, the miller's helper. Then he saw Ruth's troubled countenance. "Wha what's the matter, Ruthie?"
Arkansas raised his finger impressively and Johnson stopped. Arkansas rose unsteadily and confronted him. Said he: "Wha-what do you know a about Pennsylvania? Answer me that. Wha what do you know 'bout Pennsylvania?" "I was only goin' to say " "You was only goin' to say. You was! You was only goin' to say what was you goin' to say? That's it! That's what I want to know. Answer me that!" "Mr.
"Sir!" exclaimed both lads in a single breath. They stepped from the tent. "You are under arrest!" were the French officer's next words. Hal and Chester stepped back in complete bewilderment. "Wha what's that, sir?" asked Hal, believing that he could not have heard aright. "You are under arrest," was the sharp reply. "I am ordered to conduct you before General Petain at once."
"Sad times indeed!" echoed the old woman; "and O that you suld be endangered wi'them! but wha can help it? ye were ill eneugh guided, and, as I tell your uncle, if ye tread on a worm it will turn." "You were always my advocate, Ailie," said he, and the housekeeper no longer resented the familiar epithet, "and would let no one blame me but yourself, I am aware of that, Where is my uncle?"
His friend only intimated his attention by "Ay, ay!" and "Is't e'en sae?" and suchlike expressions of interest, at the proper breaks in Mr. Fairservice's harangue, until at length, in answer to some observation of greater length, the import of which I only collected from my trusty guide's reply, honest Andrew answered, "Tell him a bit o'my mind, quoth ye? Wha wad be fule then but Andrew?
I daresay now it had been on some hellicat errand or other. 'Did you by any chance learn his name? 'I wot weel did I, said the landlady, now as eager to communicate her evidence as formerly desirous to suppress it. 'He tell'd me his name was Brown, and he said it was likely that an auld woman like a gipsy wife might be asking for him. Ay, ay! tell me your company, and I'll tell you wha ye are!
"I wad fain see the buiks," adjected Malcolm. "You don't know what a scholar he is, papa!" "Little eneuch o' that!" said Malcolm. "Oh yes! I do," said the marquis, answering his daughter. "But he must keep the skipper from my books and the scholar from my boat." "Ye mean a scholar wha wad skip yer buiks, my lord!
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