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But that's all past and over, Mr Mould; as she thus got in a carefully regulated routine to that gentleman, she shook her head waggishly; 'That's all past and over now, sir, an't it? 'Changes, Mrs Gamp, changes! returned the undertaker. 'More changes too, to come, afore we've done with changes, sir, said Mrs Gamp, nodding yet more waggishly than before.
Maybe she worn'd a beauty: I nivver giv' it a thowt; But worn'd she as good to cuddle and kiss as a lass as an't nowt? I have always hoped that Sammy rejected his father's counsel and stuck to the poor parson's daughter. There is no harm of course in marrying money. George Borrow said that there were worse ways of making a fortune than marrying one.
Thady, now I think of it, Father John an't in it at all, for he was to be at Drumsna before the wedding; and I know he's to dine with Mrs. McKeon; he does mostly when he's in Drumsna this time of day, so I'm sure he arn't in it." Satisfied by this, Thady allowed himself to be led back again; and they walked together in silence a little way.
Have-you stuck that in? "'Stop a bit, says he, 'paintin' an't quite as fast done as writin'. Have a little grain of patience, will you? It's tall paintin', makin' the brush walk at that price. Now there you are, sais he. 'What's next?
Next moment four fishermen entered, bearing the figure of a man in their arms. "He an't drownded, lass, only swownded," said one of the men to Mrs Gaff, with the view of relieving the good woman's anxiety, as they laid a seaman on the bed. "Look alive now, old girl, an' git hot blankets an' bottles."
"I doan't like your thought, Tom," said another staider youth: "it's ill-mirth playing leap-frog over tomb-stones, and poor bravery insulting the dead. Besides, I'm thinking the bad man that's taken from us an't a going up'ards, so it's no use lending him a light. I wish we may all lie in a cooler grave than he does, and not have to go quite so deep down'ard."
'I can bear up as well as another man at most times; better than a good many, for I am as strong as a lion, and all men an't; but supposing it should really be that we have no right to a New Year supposing we really ARE intruding 'Why, father, father! said the pleasant voice again.
And I an't had much of the sov'ring neither," says Jo, with dirty tears, "fur I had to pay five bob, down in Tom-all-Alone's, afore they'd square it fur to give me change, and then a young man he thieved another five while I was asleep and another boy he thieved ninepence and the landlord he stood drains round with a lot more on it."
"I hate old, dark, black places; I like stars, and sunshine, and fires, and Uncle True's torch " "And I like bright eyes!" interrupted Willie; "yours look just like stars, they shine so to-night. An't we having a good time?" "Yes, real."
"Nothin' but hounds an' vittles worries them," the woman replied sharply, "but they an't none like city boys, an' I'd ruther have 'em the way they air than to come pesterin' with questions like Hamilton does you. I don't set any sort o' stock in it, an' I don't encourage him in sech nonsense." The big Kentuckian smiled, and filled his corn-cob leisurely as he turned the talk to other things.
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