m'yes

“Getting on my nerves, it is, all this chopping and changing; never know where you are from one day to another. ‘Study!’—M’yes! What do they study anyhow? Never leave a scrap of paper out, and everything locked up as tight as whiskey in a cook’s bed-room.” […] “But I suspect the young feller thinks I admire his step-mother.” / “I hope he’s sure of it, Valliper,” grunted Yardlip. “He’d certainly knock your head off, if he suspected you didn’t.” / “M’yes?” murmured the Academician. “Well, he’s not far wrong. And indeed, my dear Yardlip, that charming woman ought to marry again.” […] Vansittart called from below: “Hullo, up there! Ghost hunting?” / “M’yes!” replied Stanislas, with what Stinchcombe thought a strange intonation. “But Sir Harley’s looking for Christabel, to say good-bye. He’s off to town after all.”

1922, Ronald MacDonald, The Green Handkerchief, London: Cecil Palmer […], →OCLC, pages 35, 150, and 259–260

Mr. Burdon had evidently prepared himself badly for his viva voce examination. Looking over his answer before he came to the Assembly he probably had said to himself: “Supplementary question: M’yes. What is a rattan cane?’[’] Having fortified himself with the answer to that question he overlooked the word “menial,” and in response to Mr. Gaya Prasad Singh he had to admit that he did not even know its derivation: really these Government members are very careless.

1925 February 27, “The Railway Budget. Presentation in Both Houses.”, in The Pioneer Mail and Indian Weekly News, volume LII, number 9, Allahabad: The Pioneer and Civil & Military Gazette, →OCLC, page 27, column 3