A pretty match for a Stewart 'pon my word!"

"'Pon my soul, Maude, I'm never quite certain whether you are in jest or earnest!

But, 'pon my word, there's some excuse for it.

"'Pon my soul, I never saw you look so bewitchingly.

'Tain't exactly my business how you cheated Mr. Fluker, though, 'pon my soul, I never knowed a trifliner, lowdowner trick.

The young girl sees him, their eyes meet: "Eh, eh," says the gentleman, "there is a little thing who is rather nice; 'pon my word, she is not bad, not bad at all, and I believe that it would not be difficult ... the devil, it would be charming!

'Pon my word I'm growing clever, Valencia, in spite of all your prophecies.

"God only knows, and 'pon my word!

When my cold, stiff hands are crossed under the coffin-lid, nobody left 'pon top of this mournful earth ever can say that I sat by, like a bump on a log, and never said a word when I saw all these awful calamities a-coming.

Absurdly all, 'pon my soul.

Is it not true, Clotilde, that I don't love you?" "'Pon my word, cousin, you have certainly told me you loved me;

NAGLE 'Pon my word, but to know how to live is the greatest problem of all.

Cousin Sun is lookin' sad, As de market is so bad; 'Pon him han' him res' him chin, Quietly sit do'n thinkin' Of de loved wife sick in bed, An' de children to be fed What de laborers would say When dem know him couldn' pay; Also what about de mill Whe' him hire from ole Bill; So him think, an' think on so, Till him t'oughts no more could go.

'Pon me word, did ever anybody hear the like o' that?" "Well, that's what he says," repeated the other.

'Pon me word, I wisht I had him there now in his bed, the ould raskil, the way I could do on him what he's wishin' his spalpeen of a son had done on me.

'Pon my soul, Honora, though it's only play, I swear some of these fellows begin to take on little affectations of self-respect.

Neither spot has he, nor wart, nor blemish 'pon his body; and when she pays 'en his wages, Saturday evenin's, he says 'Thank 'ee, ma'am,' wi' a voice that's the very daps o' his father's.

Ne'er a man'll look 'pon me, so I'm forced to be content wi' this babe and clothe 'en pretty, as you see.

Now back to your roomundressan' cry out, sayin', there's a man shoutin' for help down 'pon the mud; and, dear, be quick!

But strike me if I'd counted 'pon her temper; an' she's got the temper of Old Nick!

"Down 'pon your knees, woman!"

Then he pursued: "Cruel things happen 'pon the sea.

Though, 'pon my honor, I don't know why we should carry firearms.

"Why, 'pon my soulI haven't thought!"

" "I told you they had come to a ticklish point in their careers," the Crow permitted himself to remind his friend, "and, 'pon my soul, I could not bet you one way or another how it will go.