You can whistle like a blackbird when you choose." "Here's to your excellent health, Mrs.Cloam, and as blooming as it finds you now, ma'am! As pretty a tap as I taste since Christmas, and another dash of malt would 'a made it worthy a'most to speak your health in.

Well, ma'am, a leetle drop in crystal for yourself, and then for my business, which is to inquire after your poor dear health to-day.
Blooming as you are, ma'am, you must bear in mind that beauty is only skin-deep, Mrs.Cloam; and the purtier a flower is, the more delicate it grows.

I've a-been a-thinking of you every night, ma'am, knowing how you must 'a been put about and driven.

The Admiral have gone down to the village, and Miss Dolly to stare at the boats going out." "Then I may speak a word for once at ease, Mr.Swipes, though the Lord alone knows what a load is on my tongue.

It requires a fine gardener, being used to delicacy, to enter into half the worry we have to put up with.