siss

When he saw Lucy’s face I could hear the sissing indraw of his breath, and he said to me in a sharp whisper: “Draw up the blind; I want light!”

“And that is the end of the story, siss.”

That's all he will accomplish by it, an a dear 'siss' it will be for many a poor fellow.

But me and Squire, my brudder and my sisses, Mary and Margot had it a little better, we had what our old missus had.

We need men for the crisis, and we only find cry sisses for the men.