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You say too little of each other in your letters to me, and I am sometimes troubled by misgivings. There is another odd circumstance, connected with our correspondence, which sets me wondering. I always send messages to Miss Minerva; and Miss Minerva never sends any messages back to me. Do you forget? or am I an object of perfect indifference to your friend? "My latest news of you all is from Zo.
"It be nawbody," said John, "vor us to make a fush about. Belong to t'other zide o' the moor, and come staling shape to our zide. Red Jem Hannaford his name. Thank God for him to be hanged, lad; and good cess to his soul for craikin' zo."
'Dere some hard vord vos, said Adolf, patiently, 'of which I gannot dze meaning. James briefly cursed the hard word. 'But, proceeded Adolf, 'of one vord, of dze vord "giss", I dze meaning know. Zo! James looked at him. There was a pause. Two minutes later the English lesson was in full swing.
Sometimes when I have been standing before some cherished old idol of mine that I remembered years and years ago in pictures in the geography at school, I have thought I would give a whole world if the human parrot at my side would suddenly perish where he stood and leave me to gaze, and ponder, and worship. No, we did not "wis zo haut can be."
The young girl turned round directly. "What is it, dear?" With big tears of indignation rising in her eyes, Zo pointed to Ovid. "I say!" she whispered, "is he going to buy the Piping Crow for you?" To Zo's discomfiture they both smiled. She dried her eyes with her fists, and waited doggedly for an answer.
The government in the meantime was carried on by the dukes of Shao and Kau, whose administration, called the period of 'Mutual Harmony, forms an important chronological era in Chinese history. On the authority of a reference in the Zo Kwan, the piece is ascribed to an earl of Zui.
"Zo 'a did, and her ladyship avore yu. I mind her when her was a little maid, and pretty ways her had wi' her, zame as now. None zo ramshacklin' as yu du be, Miss Zairy." "There's nobody about that he doesn't remember as a child," said Sarah, apologetically. "He's so old, you see. He doesn't remember how old he is, and nobody can tell him.
"Nobody's in the house, sir. It's to be let, if you please, as soon as the furniture can be moved." "Do you know where Zo is? I mean, Mr. Gallilee's youngest child." "I'm sorry to say, sir, I'm not acquainted with the family." He waited at the door, apparently hesitating what to do next. "I'll go upstairs," he said suddenly; "I want to look at the house. You needn't go with me; I know my way."
That work is much too hard for you," I cried with a sudden chivalry, which only won rude answer. "Zeed me adooing of thic, every naight last ten year, Jan, wiout vindin' out how hard it wor. But if zo bee thee wants to help, carr peg's bucket for me. Massy, if I ain't forgotten to fade the pegs till now."
"Zo!" said Karl. Nevertheless, he pushed his small, rosy, pickled-pig's-feet of fingers through his fleecy curls and beamed pleasantly at the consul. "Dot's vot's der matter," he said, as if taking a kindly interest in some private trouble of the consul's. "Dot's vere you vos, eh?" The consul looked steadily at him for a moment.
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