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Now there wan't nothing to that 'twas just some of Brown's sarcastic spite getting the best of him but I give you my word that the count turned yellow under his brown skin, kind of like mud rising from the bottom of a pond. "What-a you say?" he says, bending for'ards. "Mr. Brown was mistaken, that's all," says Dillaway; "he meant rapiers." "But why-a razors why-a razors?" says the count.
I dare say thou art going to the train with her tonight, and may be she will tell thee what she is going to wear. She didn't offer to tell me, and I wouldn't ask her not I!" "What for?" "I thought she happen might be a bit superstitious about talking of her wedding fineries. You can talk the luck out of anything, you know, John." "Nay, nay, mother!" "To be sure, you can. Why-a!
He was a very old man, with a thin, cute face, and many wrinkles on his brow; and though he seldom left his house, age had not dimmed his intellect, or dulled his good-will toward the family with whom he had been so frequently associated. "Why-a! Hallam! Come in, squire; come in, and welcome. Sit thee down, old friend. I'm fain and glad to see thee. What cheer?
He puffed meditatively at his cigar, endeavoring to focus his thoughts on the matter before him. A frown clouded his face, then suddenly disappeared. "Why-a, yes, ba Jove, this 'ot weather 'as nearly set me crazy. My brains 'ave been bemuddled all day, don't you know. Ba Jove, I most forgot that new claim. Yes, yes, and you want 'ow many shares?" Mr. Allen looked at Mr. Dean and smiled.
She was too angry to speak wisely and wise enough not to speak at all." "Well, mother?" "I said much more of the same kind. I told her that no one ever abused Nature and got off scot-free. 'Why-a! I said, 'it is thus and so in the simplest matters. If you or I eat too much we have a sick headache or dyspepsia.
And out of a kind heart also. Why-a! When John said to me, 'Mother, I love Jane Harlow, I answered, 'Thou art right to love her. She is a fit and proper wife for thee, and I made up my mind to love thee, too faults included." "Then love me now, mother. John minds your lightest word. Tell him to be patient with me." "I will but thou must do thy best to even things.
Sir, you'll allow that I am no coward, but I wouldn't touch the hem of Lucy Lugur's skirt, if it wasn't in respect and honor, for a goodish bit o' brass. No, I wouldn't!" "What would you fear?" "Why-a! I don't think he'd stop at anything decent.
No one is ever surprised at a bad action, but a good one makes human nature at once look for a bad motive for it. "She's found out that it wont pay her to hold on to other folks' money. Why-a! nobody notices her, and nivver a sweetheart comes her way." "I thought we'd bring her to terms, if we nobbut made it hot enough for her.
Sir, many a man dies in his bed with all his kin around, and does not carry as much love with him as she did. Why-a! The thought of that hour brings a pain to my heart yet and it is thirty years ago." "You are a true sailor, Captain." "To be sure I am. As the Fife men say, 'I was born with the sea in my mouth. I thank God for it!
Yates is past comforting. He says it bodes all kinds of misfortunes to them." "How long ago is it since Hatton Hall fire was lit?" "Well, John, our fire isn't out of counting, like some of the old hearth fires in Yorkshire. But Hatton fire will never go out, John. It was lit by a man that will not die, nor his name perish forever. Why-a! John Wesley kindled the fire on Hatton hearthstone."
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