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Ansig then placed a spear at the child's right side at a point below the right arm and above the margin of the ribs. This lance was grasped by the widows Addy and Obby, who at a signal from Ansig forced it through the child's body, it coming out at the other side.
"Well, of all the ugly, hungry-looking brutes I ever saw," said Hilary, as he gazed down at the pig, "you are about the worst. Why, you are not fit to cut up and salt for a ship's company, which is saying a deal. Umph! indeed! Get out you ugly Oh, murder! the brute's coming at my breakfast! Addy, Addy, quick! Yah! Pst! Get out! Ciss! Swine! Co-chon! Boo! Bah-h-h!
Lisbeth was going on, for she was not at all afraid of Seth, and usually poured into his ears all the querulousness which was repressed by her awe of Adam. Seth had never in his life spoken a harsh word to his mother, and timid people always wreak their peevishness on the gentle. But Seth, with an anxious look, had passed into the workshop and said, "Addy, how's this? What!
Addy left me in her will fifteen hundred dollars for my visit to Europe, and before I sailed her father, who was one of the best friends I have ever had, made a characteristically kind proposition in connection with the little fund.
And little Emmy, a-setting on the fence, with her bunnit throwed back on her neck. 'Addy! she called, way across the lot; 'Addy, come, help me down! She was a master hand for venturin' up on places, but she didn't like the gettin' down. "Well, she 'a learned the ups and downs by this time. She don't need Addy to help her. I'd have helped a big sight more if I had kep' my distance.
"People said so," answered Leam. "As pretty as Cousin Addy?" she asked. "About," said Leam, who thought neither supreme. "Prettier than you?" "I don't know: how can I tell?" she answered a little impatiently.
"Ay, lad, th' old tale; but I shall get it done," said Adam, looking up. "Why, what's the matter with thee thee'st in trouble?" Seth's eyes were red, and there was a look of deep depression on his mild face. "Yes, Addy, but it's what must be borne, and can't be helped. Let me take my turn now, and do thee go to bed." "No, lad; I'd rather go on, now I'm in harness.
As soon as she was gone, he said, "I don't wonder at thee for loving her, Seth. She's got a face like a lily." Seth's soul rushed to his eyes and lips: he had never yet confessed his secret to Adam, but now he felt a delicious sense of disburdenment, as he answered, "Aye, Addy, I do love her too much, I doubt. But she doesna love me, lad, only as one child o' God loves another.
Meanwhile two new customers entered, and the repeated call, "Addy!" brought from the back of the shop a group that Deronda turned frankly to stare at, feeling sure that the stare would be held complimentary.
Lisbeth Bede was going on, for she was not at all afraid of Seth who had never in his life spoken a harsh word to his mother and usually poured into his ears all the querulousness which was repressed by the awe which mingled itself with her idolatrous love of Adam. But Seth, with an anxious look, had passed into the workshop, and said, "Addy, how's this? What! Father's forgot the coffin?"
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