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"You are a-doing it to play me a infamous trick, and I'll have you up before the dean to-morrow! I'll shake the life out of you, I will!" Laying summary hold of Mr. Jenkins, he began to shake him with all his feeble strength. The latter soon extricated himself, and he succeeded in impressing on the man the fallacy of his suspicion. "Don't I want to get home to my supper and my wife?
He shivered with cold and terror at the crime about to be done, and quivered with impatience that it was so long a-doing. The assassins now divided their force. mephistopheles took his station to leeward of the tent; brutus to windward. Crawley saw a sudden spark upon the ground; it was brutus striking a lucifer match against his heel.
"Don't you need my help?" asked the Doctor, as, in a disobedient frame of mind, he lingered at the table to watch the singer lady begin operations on her dainty breakfast. "Well, you can set here and see that Elinory gets all she wants and more too, but I must be a-doing around. There cames the Deacon! I wonder what the matter is!"
He had a little crown on also, and that was the only thing kingly about him, to my mind. Now he cast one look at Goldberga, which made her shrink into herself, as it were, and turned with a smile to us all. "Friends," he said, "this is short notice for a wedding, but all men know that 'Happy is the wooing that is not long a-doing, so no more need be said of that.
So fought they in the Wolfing meadow in the fifth hour after high-noon, and neither yielded to the other: but while these things were a-doing, men laid Thiodolf adown aloof from the battle under a doddered oak half a furlong from where the fight was a-doing, round whose bole clung flocks of wool from the sheep that drew around it in the hot summer-tide and rubbed themselves against it, and the ground was trodden bare of grass round the bole, and close to the trunk was worn into a kind of trench.
I hope he'll find every one else as good at doing what he tells 'em. But I ain't a-going to be a-doing for him or for any one much longer." Mrs Baggett walked into her master's room, loudly knocking at the door, and waiting for a loud answer.
"Oh, I say!" "But what did you leave for?" "Because she was a beast my missus was; and what I told her was that it was seven days too much." "You never did!" "Oh, I say!" "And what did she say?" "Well, it was like this. I was a-doing of my hair in the kitchen with the curling-iron, when down comes Miss Julia. 'Oh, you are frizzing your hair! she says.
Sapsea rises, takes a key from a drawer, unlocks an iron safe let into the wall, and takes from it another key. 'When Durdles puts a touch or a finish upon his work, no matter where, inside or outside, Durdles likes to look at his work all round, and see that his work is a-doing him credit, Durdles explains, doggedly.
He stuffed the finger of that glove with cotton so's to make it look like a whole finger, and the first time he takes off that glove they've got him see, and he knows it. So what youse want to do is to look for a man with gloves on. I've been a-doing it for two weeks now, and I can tell you it's hard work, for everybody wears gloves this kind of weather.
I've got a letter from the junior partner there, and I'm to deliver it to Mr. Dunbar himself!" The keeper of the lodge threw up her hands and eyes in token of utter bewilderment. "Begging your pardon, sir," she said, "but I've been that upset, I don't know scarcely what I'm a-doing of. Mr. Dunbar have gone, sir, and nobody in that house don't know why he went, or when he went, or where he's gone.
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