bhoni ho gayi

"I say, uncle, is this all the grub great swells have? I'm awfully perkish!" "That's early tea, my boy," was the answer, with a smile. perkish: somewhat hungry. " ... I wouldn't mind if she weren't a prominent person of the kind that's always in some sort of garboil. That would mean more trouble, sooner or later.." garboil: confusion. No one was privy to the goings- on at the house in the droke, though there was plenty of speculation about the rituals being performed to rid Mrs. Gallery of the cross her husband had become. droke: a valley with steeply sloping sides. ..... a job, a prayer, a lesson, a little of each, a prayer got by rote in case of emergency before the soul resigns and bubbling up all arsy-varsy in the old head done with listening, there I am old, it doesn't take long... arsy-varsy : wrong end foremost; completely backward.