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Rosa, better able to estimate the change of manner than Miss Lucas was, who did not know how little this Sawny was afflicted with misplaced dignity, looked wistfully and distressed at her.
However, the chances are she will not come near me: she left the school quite a big girl, an immense girl, when I was only twelve. She used to smile at my capriccios; and once she kissed me actually. She was an awful Sawny, though, and so affected: I think I will write to her." These letters brought just one lady, a Mrs.
He told me that Ellis was always looked upon as a very quiet, rather sawny sort of a fellow, without any harm; that he kept much to himself, and had no intimate friends. He was also always poor, and spent no money in the way other boys were in the habit of doing.
"I don't like it," he said. "Don't like it," repeated Sampson, mimicking his manner. "I wouldn't give much for that vow of yours, young man. Why, you are a soft Sawny. You want to clear your own girl?" "That I do, God knows." "Then introduce me to Miss Clay." "Oh, Sampson, I hope I'm doing right." "Fiddlesticks with your right. I tell you this is my affair. Come along now, or it will be too late."
These vagaries were arrested by three words from the mouth of Old Zeb, screwed sideways over his fiddle. "Time ye sawny!" Young Zeb started, puffed out his cheeks, and blew a shriller note. During the rest of the canticle his eyes were glued to the score, and seemed on the point of leaving their sockets with the vigour of the performance.
Only five, however, could play at the game; and Sawny Dablerdeen, who always played on two small pipes, and paid sundry small pipers to do a deal of blowing, seemed in the greatest fuddle.
Makes you sick to see folks gittin' value fer their dollars, don't it?" "Good fer you, good fer you," cried the butcher, and subsided with a loud guffaw. The unusual burst of speech from this man caused general surprise. The entire company paused to stare at the shining, grinning face. "Sail in, Slum," said a lean man Tresler had heard addressed as "Sawny" Martin.
"Jezebel back ag'in in your own teeth, and damned piddler too, Mr. Sargeant!" cried Betty, who was easily roused. "What have I to do with piddlers, or escapes? I might have been a piddler's lady, and wore my silks, if I'd had Sawny M'Twill, instead of tagging at the heels of a parcel of dragooning rapscallions, who don't know how to trate a lone body with dacency."
The Oracle had Uncle Bob, of course, and long Dave Regan, the drover a good-hearted, sawny kind of chap that'd break the devil's own buck-jumper, or smash him, or get smashed himself and little Jimmy Nowlett, the bullocky, and one or two of the old, better-class diggers that were left on the field.
They are in companies all of a name, and therefore call one another only by their Christian names, as Jemmy, Jocky, that is, John, and Sawny, that is, Alexander, and the like. And they scorn to be commanded but by one of their own clan or family. They are all gentlemen, and proud enough to be kings.
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