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I don't mean nothin' like that you've been jest as good to me as you could be; you've been awful good to me, al'ays! but it ain't like, you know; it ain't like havin' a home with your own mother." "Never min', laddie; never min'; ye s'all have a hame, an' a mither too some day, I mak' na doot, some day." There was silence for a time, then Bachelor Billy continued:
He always said "your Bible," as if church members held a proprietary right. "That's it!" replied Miss Susan, brightening. "That's what I al'ays thought. Spill it all out, I say, an' make the world smell as sweet as honey. My! but I do have great projicks settin' here by the fire alone! Great projicks!" "Tell me some!"
"And it ain't," she gathered up her comfortable fat person to assist the words "it ain't good no, not the best pious ones I shall, and will say it! as is al'ays ready to smack your face with the Bible." "Now, don't ye be angry," said the farmer. She softened instantly.
But what's a feller goin' to do for company? Go on; it's your deal." "Who kyeers fer th' deal? I d on't. Now, Joe, I says, t to th' ole lady, y' see, I says, a young man can't live up a dingy stairs on th' top floor al'ays, and never git no comp'ny. Can't do it. I don't want t' 'rink much, but I c ome here to git comp'ny.
"I guess 'twould puzzle a saint to explain men-folks, anyway, but I've al'ays thought they was sort o' numb about some things. Anyway, Josh Marden was. Well, things went on that way till the fust part o' the summer, an' then they come to a turnin'-p'int. I s'pose they'd got to, some time, an' it might jest as well ha' been fust as last.
Poor wold Jinny! He wur her last colt, and you did al'ays use to say you'd keep en for her sake. Ah, 'tis twenty year since I run out and found en aside of her in the paddock walkin' about as clever as you please, and not above two hours old. Not a white hair on en d'ye mind? and such big, strong legs! I was all for a-callin' en Beauty, but you said Beauty was a filly's name.
She would pounce on them fish and carry them off and growl, and she knew when I got a bite, she'd watch the line; but when we were mackereling she never give us any trouble. She would never lift a paw to touch any of our fish. She didn't have the thieving ways common to most cats. She used to set round on deck in fair weather, and when the wind blew she al'ays kept herself below.
Ain't he grooved handsome. He's al'ays about Beltharp now. It ain't to fire no more ricks. He's afire 'unself. Ain't you seen 'em together? He's after the missis" Adrian requested Miss Davenport to be respectful, and confine herself to particulars. This buxom lass then told him that her young missis and Adrian's young gentleman were a pretty couple, and met one another every night.
It's too much resk!" "It's al'ays a resk to do your duty," said Uncle William. "Jump in. I can't stand talkin'." An edge of impatience grazed the words. The man stepped in and seized the oars. "I'll help get her off," he said, "but I won't go." In the green light of the harbor a smile played over Uncle William's face grotesquely. He gave a shove to the boat and sprang in.
"There's only one thing to do. I can't drive ye: I never steered yet with the tiller lines in front it al'ays seemed to me un-Christian. We must take to the fields. I used to know these parts, and by the bearings we can't be half a mile above the ferry. Here, through that gate to the left!"
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