That's the right time to have sarvants to tend on you.' "'What an idea!' said he, and he puckered up his pictur, and the way he stared was a caution to an owl.
"Well, we sot and sot till I was tired, so thinks I, 'what's next ?' for it's rainin' agin as hard as ever.' So I took a turn in the study to sarch for a book, but there was nothin' there, but a Guide to the Sessions, Burn's Justice, and a book of London club rules, and two or three novels.

He said he got books from the sarkilatin' library.
"'Lunch is ready.' "'What, eatin' agin?
My goody!' thinks I, 'if you are so fond of it, why the plague don't you begin airly?
If you'd a had it at five o'clock this morning, I'd a done justice to it; now I couldn't touch it if I was to die.' "There it was, though.

Help yourself, and no thanks, for there is no sarvants agin.

The rule here is, no talk no sarvants--and when it's all talk, it's all sarvants.
"Thinks I to myself, 'now, what shall I do till dinner-time, for it rains so there is no stirrin' out ?--Waiter, where is eldest son ?--he and I will have a game of billiards, I guess.' "'He is laying down, sir.' "'Shows his sense,' sais I, 'I see, he is not the fool I took him to be.
If I could sleep in the day, I'de turn in too.

Where is second son ?' "'Left this mornin' in the close carriage, sir.' "'Oh cuss him, it was him then was it ?' "'What, Sir ?' "'That woke them confounded rooks up, out o' their fust nap, and kick't up such a bobbery.