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"Don't we, Cath'lics an' Protistints aloike, for there's little to choose atwane us on the p'int, contint oursilves wid as little as we can hilp, goin' once to chapel or church, mebbe, av a Sunday an' thinkin' we've wiped out all the avil we may a-done in the wake, an' have a clane sheet for the nixt one jist as this poor ig'rant haythin booms his goold paper afore his joss an' thinks that clears off all his ould scores.
Things here be like going to a funeral all day long never a bit of music nor dancing, nor aught that is jolly. Master Matthew's best of the lot, but bad's the best when you've a-done.
She didn't take any heed of the hosses, but she looked hard at me, and when she was passed turned her head to have another look, and then she come back. "`Bain't you Tom Janaway, says she, `what used to work up to Wydcombe Farm? "`Ay, that I be, says I, but stiff-like, for it galled me to think what she'd a-done for master, and yet could look so jolly with it all.
If it hadn't of ben that I love you, what you think I'd a-done to that bunch? That's th' truth. I ben holdin' off thinkin' you'd come to your senses an' see that Buck Courtrey ain't to be met with vilence. Now I'm playin' my trump card now, tonight. "Lola says you love this dude from below. That don't cut no ice with me. I ain't carin' for no love from you at present. All I want is you.
"The bally, blithering unnatural 'eathen hev flew the h'ivory coops. T'was to be expected. I 'ates t' think what h'I'd a-done, 'ad h'I 'ad the say of it." "Oh, well," said the Doctor, who was inclined to take Jarvis' quarrel with the natives rather lightly, "in twenty-four hours we'll be away from these shores never to return." "Return?" exclaimed Jarvis. "H'I'll return, an' Dave 'ere'll return.
"Oh, do a-done, cook, and throw the nasty thing behind the fire. I was just coming out again into the gallery, when I heard something horrid." "Heard?" cried Waller excitedly. "Then you didn't see it?" "No, Master Waller. I only heard it walking. Somewhere up by your room I mean your den, as you call it.
Jack said nothing, and we walked on, very uneasy and depressed. When we arrived at our lodgings we found Billy, whose recovery was now almost complete, sitting up in the bed with a jubilant face. "You're a-done it, governor," cried he, as we entered. "You are a-done it." "Done what?" said Jack. "Why, that there sam." "What about it?" we cried, eagerly.
"The train stopped long enough at Guildford for you to get in through the doorway, like any ordinary passenger, surely?" "No, sir, I couldn't," answered the other. "I couldn't a-done it." "But why not?" "Because, sir," snivelled the lad, "I didn't have no money, sir." "Humph! you had no money, eh?"
If they'd a-done it all their lives, well and good; it's no time for them to begin being cotton-mouthed now." "Mother," said Kate gently, "haven't YOU changed, yourself, about things like Christmas, for example? Maybe your children are changing, too. Maybe they feel that they have missed something they'd like to have from you, and give back to you, before it's too late. Just maybe," said Kate.
"Look here," cried cook, who was enjoying her fellow-servant's mirth, and who began thumping again at poor Bella's back, "do you want me to thump it out of you?" "Oh, no, no, no, no, no! Do a-done, cook!" sobbed out Bella, hysterically and incoherently.
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