It took time, though, for Syd's pretty wife was in the habit of making
slangy slips redolent of the music-hall, as, for instance, when she made
Lady Tilborough and the doctor, who both petted her and Syd, laugh till
they wiped their eyes, by saying of Lady Lisle--
"Oh, yes, she's ever so good to me, and I love her down to the ground;
but she's such a caution, don'tcherknow!"
End of Project Gutenberg's Sir Hilton's Sin, by George Manville Fenn
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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