But I don't like sitting here and eatin' while you don't take bit or sup yourself.

Won't you chip in, Mistress Marie?
Come now, do." With her deep, patient smile she obeyed him, eating little and carelessly, like a woman in some distress.
"When will they come down to Loango ?" she asked suddenly, without looking at him.
"Ah! that I can't tell you.

We left quite in a hurry, as one may say, with nothin' arranged.

Truth is I think we all feared that the guv'nor had got his route.

He looked very like peggin' out, and that's the truth.