Oh, very well do you know and abuse your power, you adorable and lovely baggage, who have kept me dancing attendance for a fortnight, without ever giving me an honest yes or no."

Will you hold that noise, sir?" "Ye-ye-yes," sobbed the little boy, rubbing his face very hard.

Can you let us have a pail o' hot water in the meantime?" "Y-yes," said the Colonel, looking as if he had enough to think about already.

I had staked all on Gussie making a favourable impression on his hostess, basing my confidence on the fact that he was one of those timid, obsequious, teacup-passing, thin-bread-and-butter-offering yes-men whom women of my Aunt Dahlia's type nearly always like at first sight.

To his kindly advances I curtly returned "Yeses" and "Noes." His name was Obels, a Belgian by birth but speaking English as well as German, French, and Flemish.

" I said a few "yeses" and "reallys" during this long speech, and he continued, like a mill grinding coffee: "It don't do to over-breed.

Those members of the Parliament from whom weakness or astonishment had surprised a yes retracted as soon as they were assembled, and underwent the same fate as their colleagues.