United States or Kosovo ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
'And off went the baronet to Myrtle Villa? 'O no! he went away for many years. 'Tis quite lately, since his illness, that he came to that little place, in zight of the stone walls that were the pride of his forefathers. 'From what I hear, he has not the manner of a broken-hearted man? 'Not at all.
"I went up and down, up and down, day and night, day and night, to all pot-houses as I could zee; vor, says I, he was a'ways a main chap to drink, he was. Oh, deery me! and I never cot zight on un and noo I be most spent, I be." And he pulled up at another public-house, and tried this time a glass of brandy.
"Why, it was his lordship," he went on, scanning the judge still harder. "I do mind his vurry voice. It was 'im, no doubt about it. I've zeed a zight o' people, since I zeed 'im that day, but I do mind his voice, and I do mind his 'ands, and I do mind his ve-ace the zame as if it wur yesterday. Now I come to look, blessed if it wasn't his lordship!" Guy's counsel smiled a triumphant smile.
He hoped no harm hadn't come to the gentleman in the parlour; he had a powerful zight o' money on un for a man to carry about; the landlord had zeen it when he took out his book from his pocket to pay the porter. Volks didn't ought to go about with two or dree hundred pound or more in the lonely lanes on the edge of the moorland.
Since that illness he has been happy, as you see him: no pride, quite calm and mild; at new moon quite childish. 'Tis that makes him able to live there; before he was so ill he couldn't bear a zight of the place, but since then he is happy nowhere else, and never leaves the parish further than to drive once a week to Markton.
Uncle Ted and Aunt Mattie will be our uncle and aunt to all of us just the same, once we're cousins. 'All right, said Justin and Archie, who were longing to begin another scrimmage of some kind. 'All right, said Pat, not quite so heartily, for he was disappointed of his argument with Aunt Mattie. 'All zight, said Hec and Ger Ger adding, 'but thoo'll be Mith Mouse always.
Word Of The Day