"Been 'ere"-he sometimes dropped an Aitch and sometimes did not-"this half hour."
"The Way of Ambition"
Robert Hichens
"This 'alf hour," he repeated, this time dropping the Aitch to make a change.
"The Way of Ambition"
Robert Hichens
Once she left out an Aitch, and then she said the word over again quite right."
"The Necromancers"
Robert Hugh Benson