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Corkey gazes scornfully at his inquisitors. "As I was a-saying, I let down the yawl, and it was no good it was good enough it saved us. When I get in the wet, I screw my nut and the blooming old tub was gone down, I reckon!" When Corkey screws his nut he turns his head. He can use no other phrase. The interviewers are busy catching his exact words. "Then I pick up the mascot, and he bail.
"Eh, Aaron, my lad, are you there?" said Silas; "I wasn't aware of you; for when Eppie's talking o' things, I see nothing but what she's a-saying. Well, if you could help me with the digging, we might get her a bit o' garden all the sooner."
And, as I was saying, I don't there, that's about done for him," he muttered, as he dropped the piece of rock he held right upon the rattlesnake's head, crushing it, and then taking hold of the tail, and drawing the reptile out to its full length "as I was a-saying, Master Bart, I don't like killing things as arn't good to eat; but if you'll put all the rattlesnakes' heads together ready for me, I'll drop stones on 'em till they're quite dead."
I was just a-peeping in when Sacovitch comes along and throws the window open, just as if he'd wanted me to hear what they was a-saying. 'And now, says he, 'it's all ready, ain't it?" I suppose I shifted in my chair at this, and turned round with a look of some eagerness and interest, for Hinge, in his excitement, laid his hand upon my shoulder and begged me not to hurry him.
'Where's the note? he must have brought something with it. 'No, he didn't, sir there was no note. 'Don't be absurd! cried Fenwick. 'There must have been. Mrs. Flint, outraged, protested that she knew what she was a-saying of. He questioned her fiercely, but there was nothing to be got out of her rigmarole account, which Fenwick cut short by retreating into the studio in the middle of it.
"The old gentlemen is all as pleased as Punch," said Joe. "We was a feared as it might be somebody foreign not a Carlingford gentleman; and some parsons is queer, saving your presence, Mr. May; but we knows where you comes from, and all about you, as one of the old gentlemen was just a-saying to me. Furnished, Miss? Lord bless you, yes! they're furnished. It's all furnished, is College.
Only Private Penton Gray, of the th Rifles." "Well, you are a-saying `sir' to me." "Yes, but I don't mean it as you do. While I am in the regiment we are equals." "Oh yes, I like that!" said the boy with a faint laugh. "Wish we was. Only Private Penton Gray of the th! Well, ain't that being a gentleman? Don't our chaps all carry rifles?
"I makes due allowances for the young, for I says to myself, 'Jane Power, you was once, so to speak, like an unfledged chick yourself; but there's youth and youth, Dr. Maybright; and Miss Polly's of the kind as makes your 'air stand on hend." "Poor Polly," said the Doctor. "No, sir, begging your parding, if you was in the kitchen, it's 'poor Mrs. Power' you'd be a-saying.
Her mother used to mop out the yard before she was 'churched." "I can tell you what," said William, "you had better mind what you are a-saying of, for if any of your talk got wind upstairs you'd lose yer situation, and it might be some time before yer got another!" "Lose my situation! and a good job, too. I shall always be able to suit mesel'; don't you fear about me.
Ez I was a-saying last night, this here is Tuckasege country, and we ain't no furder than a day's running from the Cowee Towns. Now the Tuckaseges and the over-mounting Cherokees ain't always on the best o' tarms, and I was a wondering if the hoss-captain hadn't sot down here to wait whilst he could send a peace-offer' o' powder and lead on to the Cowee chiefs to sort o' smooth the way."
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