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Oh! so solemn and per'aps you will be annoyed, think it tiresome, because I laugh " "No," said Peter gravely, "I like your laughing." "Ah! That is well." Suddenly he jerked his body forward and stared into Peter's face. "Well!... Will you come?" Peter hung back, his face white. He was only conscious that Zachary, quiet and smiling in the background, watched him intently.
Bowers obeyed, Bob approached the wheels of the buggy in a manner half shy, half mysterious. "You wanter buy them Summit woods, mister?" "Well, per'aps, sonny. Why?" smiled Mr. Bowers. "Coz I'll tell ye suthin'. Don't you be fooled into allowin' that Cynthia wrote that po'try. She didn't no more'n Eunice nor me. Mar kinder let ye think it, 'cos she don't want folks to think SHE did it.
"Pritchard blushed plum color to the short hairs of his seventeen-inch neck. "''Undreds, said Pyecroft. 'So've I. How many of 'em can you remember in your own mind, settin' aside the first an' per'aps the last and one more? "'Few, wonderful few, now I tax myself, said Sergeant Pritchard, relievedly. "'An' how many times might you 'ave been at Aukland? "'One two, he began.
"Yes 'e says you are married now and 'ave a lovely 'ouse and 'e says you 'ave not written for a ver' long time, and 'e just asked me to give you 'is love and say that when 'e comes back from Spain, per'aps " "Stephen!" Peter's voice was sharp with distress. "Zanti, where is he now? I must go and see him at once." "No, 'e 'as gone already to the boat. I follow 'im." Then Mr.
You ought to know me by this time." "That's so!" said Mrs. Bigsby; "I'm wonderin' ye dared to ax him." Dan'l passed his hand over his mouth, and continued: "'I dunno but you're right, Lummox, sez I; 'per'aps it's jest as well as thar wasn't TWO in the Bank in that bizness. But the more I looked at the hoss the more I hankered arter him. 'Look here, sez I, 'I tell ye what I'll do!
At length he blurted out: "I was wondering, ma'am ahem! Miss Turnham if, since it is an agreeable h'evening, you would care to take a walk to that 'ill I told you of?" "Me take a walk? La, no! Whatever put such an idea as that into your head?" cried Sarah; and tatted and tatted, keeping time with a pretty little foot. "I thought per'aps ..." said Hempel meekly. "I didn't make your thoughts, Mr.
We passed into the quiet of the inner bar, the Red Marine zealously leading the way. "And what do you drink, Mr. Pyecroft?" I said. "Only water. Warm water, with a little whisky an' sugar an' per'aps a lemon." "Mine's beer," said the Marine. "It always was." "Look 'ere, Glass. You take an' go to sleep. The picket'll be comin' for you in a little time, an' per'aps you'll 'ave slep' it off by then.
After scanning the Jamaican carefully, he issued an order to one of his men, who left the room. "And I'm an American," Anthony declared. "You'll have to answer for this." "Per'aps you don' know who I am. I am Ramon Alfarez, Comandante of Police, an' you dare' to t'row the water of the 'ose-wagon upon my person. Your gover'ment will settle for those insolt."
"I've read about it!..." "Well, that's livin' in sin, that is. Pers'nally, I down't see wot diff'rence it mykes. They be'ave about the syme, married or not. 'E's a bit more lovin', per'aps, than a 'usband, but otherwise it's about the syme!" The bluntness of Lizzie's speech disconcerted him, and yet the simplicity of it reassured him.
One only 'ates when one is afraid, and you aren't afraid any more of poor Gyp." "Was I ever?" he demanded. "A leetle per'aps? You think to yourself: 'If I love 'er ! Bah, that is all finished. Come, I tell you my funny story." He had laughed. He was incredulous of himself.
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