I don't know, mistress,' he replied quickly.

His mistress replied to him, or rather cut short his harangue, by exclaiming in English (as if determined to make us taste in anticipation the full bitterness of death)---"Base dog, and son of a dog, do you dispute my commands?

"I did mean you, child," replied her mistress calmly.

"Immediately, mistress," he replied on the center frequency, and perambulated hastily in that direction.

Yes, dear," her mistress replied; "there are people living in this house, although we cannot see them.

"Of course, mistress," Konstantin replied, though he imagined himself offering a very different response.

My mistress replied, 'We are travellers here.

Sometimes I wonder myself, little mistress," he replied, in complete seriousness, "and the same thought occurred to me last night.

"And to you, my mistresses," he replied, also in Gaelic.

'My life is yours, mistress,' the girl replied, and Merykara kissed her.