I 've got no dish, else I 'd soon get water.
"Inverness?
Poor chaps, that's too far to go with your tongues like a lime-kiln.

Down, good dogs; I 'll be back in a minute." You can have no idea, unless you have tried it, how much water a soft clerical hat can hold--if you turn up the edges and bash down the inside with your fist, and fill the space to the brim.

But it is difficult to convey such a vessel with undiminished content through a crowd, and altogether impossible to lift one's eyes.

Carmichael was therefore quite unconscious that two new-comers to the shelter were watching him with keen delight as he came in bareheaded, flushed, triumphant--amid howls of welcome--and knelt down to hold the cup till--drinking time about in strict honour--the retrievers had reached the maker's name.
"Do you think they would like a biscuit ?" said a clear, sweet, low voice, with an accent of pride and just a flavour of amusement in its tone.

Carmichael rose in much embarrassment, and was quite confounded.
They were standing together--father and daughter, evidently--and there was no manner of doubt about him.