I tried to git 'im off, but 'twas no use; he stuck to me like a limpet to a rock." "Perhaps it was all fancy, Simon." "No fancy in me, but a lot o' judgment.

Fact, sur, I've begun to think for the fust time as 'ow some things in the Bible ain't true.

In the Psalms of Solomon it reads, 'Resist the devil and he'll go away howlin'.' Well, I've resisted that 'ere devil, and he wouldn't go away till he'd knowed as how he'd played his little game;" and Simon looked very solemn indeed.
"Is that all, Simon ?" "All, yer honour.

'Tisn't much, you think; but to me it looks mighty suspicious, as I said to my sweetheart when I see her a-huggin' and kissin' the coachman." I went away laughing, but my heart was still heavy.

Try as I would, I could not dispel the fancy that soon something terrible would happen.
During dinner Kaffar made himself very disagreeable.