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"Huh, you told her that, did you?" Henley's cheeks reddened against his will. "Well, I don't go much on style, in hot weather, anyway. I never did want to be called a dude." "Of course not, but what you reckon she done? She leaned back in her chair while I was a-talking an' laughed like she'd bust herself wide open.
'Do you hear? cried Cicely, angrily. 'Niece, replied the farmer, turning to her, 'there's them summer apples as you used to like, there be some ready; will 'ee have one? 'I don't want your apples; why didn't you come down? 'Aw; that's what you be a-talking about. 'Yes, that's it.
Different times there was other genlmen come down Tom-all-Alone's a-prayin, but they all mostly sed as the t'other 'wuns prayed wrong, and all mostly sounded to be a-talking to theirselves, or a-passing blame on the t'others, and not a- talkin to us. WE never knowd nothink. I never knowd what it wos all about."
'Well, sir, we put our pipes aboard, and we drank our half-and- half, and sat a-talking, very sociably, when the young man says, "You must excuse me stopping very long," he says, "because I'm forced to go home in good time. I must be at work all night." "At work all night?" says I. "You ain't a baker?" "No," he says, laughing, "I ain't a baker."
When Leroy's name was mentioned the burly man was quick to join in the conversation. "There ain't a word of truth in all this stuff you hear about Leroy," he said, and his manner was more emphatic than the occasion seemed to demand. "He's in the newspapers, and he ain't anywhere else on top of the ground. I know what I'm a-talking about.
'Well, if I ever, said she; 'this is something like a dream! Yellow fowls a-talking and all! I've heard of such, but never did I think to see the day. 'Well, then, said Cyril, impatiently, 'sit here and see the day now. It's a jolly fine day.
'Well, Sir, I know you won't mention me, Mr. Larkin. 'Certainly not go on. 'When people gets hot a-talking they won't mind a body comin' in; and that's how the capting and Miss Rachel Lake they carried on their dispute like, though me coming into the room. 'Just so; and what do you found your opinion about Mr. Mark Wylder on?
So far as I could catch over his shoulder, he seemed to be quite a-talking with her not as you and I be, miss, but a sort of a manner of a way, like." "And what did he seem to say? Oh, Jacob, how long you do take over it!" "Well, he did not, miss; that you may say for sartain.
That's Ned Masters, an' was once the Reverend Edward Masters, Bachelor o' Divinity in Cambridge College; but in a tavern there fell a-talking with a certain Pelagian about Adam an' Eve, an' because the fellow turn'd stubborn, put a knife into his waistband, an' had to run away to sea: a middling drinker only, but after a quart or so to hear him tackle Predestination!
Gutch, whose pocket-flask was empty, and who began to wipe tears away, "she's treated me hard has Jane Baylis, never allowing me a little comfort such as a lady of my age should have, and when I hears the two of you a-talking this morning the other side of that privet hedge, thinks I, 'Now's the time to have my knife into you, my fine madam! And I hope I done it."
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