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Putting it on, he returned the way he had come. "That wass cliver, man," said the admiring Donald, when his friend rejoined him. Junkie accepted the compliment with a dignified smile, and then sat down to wait; but it was a severe trial of patience to both of them, for the old man slept steadily on, and even snored. He seemed, in short, to have fairly gone to bed for the night.
Mary Batchelor listened to him for a while, her head bent with something of the submission of the old servant, till something he said roused again the quick shudder, the look of anguished protest. "Aye, I dessay it's aw reet, Mr. George I dessay it is what yer say. The inspectors is very cliver an the wages is paid proper. But theer say what yer will!
"Non, vraiment, me shockable blind dis day; mais, p'r'aps, git more cliver de morrow," replied the good-humoured Canadian with a grin. "Fat you see?" "I see fut-prints," replied Bounce, dismounting; "an' as fut-prints implies feet, an' feet indicates critters, human or otherwise, it becomes men wot be lookin' for a lost comrade to examine 'em with more nor or'nary care."
Fitzpatrick, we are not splitting hairs. You know perfectly well that this woman is the prisoner's wife." "Indade, an' it's the cliver man ye are to know what I know better than I know mesilf." "Well, well," said Mr. Staunton impatiently, "will you say that you do not consider this woman the prisoner's wife?" "I will not," replied Mrs.
He's a cliver little pony, but he's not a floy; and I never knew that even a floy could stand on a wall with a cart and doctor's medicine bags a-hanging on to it. G'tup!" This last sound was addressed to the pony, which in the darkness began once more its astonishing progress up the sand-hill. The plea for mercy to the horse entered Caius' reason.
Och! but salvages is a quare lot; an', Bryan, yer a cliver boy to come this far all the way to see thim." With this self-complimentary conclusion, Bryan resumed his place at the paddle, and the party returned to the camp. Here they found things in a most satisfactory state.
"There was a young man that used to come a' courting me when I was a lass o' nineteen, and he had a black heart for all he spoke so fair; but I didn't see it at the first, and he was that cliver and insinuatin', and had such a way o' talkin', and made so much o' me, I couldn't but listen to him for a while.
But Mulvaney an' me stopped thot, knowin' Orth'ris's work, though niver so cliver, was nobut skin-deep. An' at last Mrs. DeSussa fixed t' day for startin' to Munsooree Pahar. We was to tek Rip to t' stayshun i' a basket an' hand him ovver just when they was ready to start, an' then she'd give us t' brass as was agreed upon. An' my wod!
Hims look at de sauvage dat hold him as if him be a lion. I do tink Monsieur Bertram vould fight vell if hims obleeged. "After good deal of consultoration an' disputerin', dey vas about for go avay; so I sit ver' still, but I move my foot von leetle morsil, an' von small leaf fall to de ground. It vas ver' small leaf, but Hawksving him see it. Ah! he be von cliver Injun. Ver' sharp in sight too!
DeSussa, an't' waay I coom to be acquainted wi' her was along of our Colonel's Laady's dog Rip. I've seen a vast o' dogs, but Rip was t' prettiest picter of a cliver fox-tarrier 'at iver I set eyes on. He could do owt you like but speeak, an' t' Colonel's Laady set more store by him than if he hed been a Christian.
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