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"Jim," he said to his man, "seems to me we met a boy something like this, up at Beman's, didn't we?" "Yes, Mas'r," said Jim, "only I an't sure about the hand." "Well, I didn't look, of course," said the stranger with a careless yawn. Then walking up to the landlord, he desired him to furnish him with a private apartment, as he had some writing to do immediately.
"Everybody is glad to see you now." "But not as they were then," said Willie; "mother always looks as if she expected to hear I'd got something to do; and grandfather, I believe, never thought I should be good for much; and now, as I was beginning to earn something, and be a help to them, I've lost my chance!" "But that an't your fault, Willie; you couldn't help Mr. Bray's dying.
At length she felt that this must be the time, if ever, for saying to him what she had made up her mind to say on the previous evening, when her courage failed her. So, plucking up all the heart she could, and blushing at the time to the top of her forehead, she said, "An't I to go with you, Myles, when you go?" Ussher still remained silent; he did not know how to answer to this question.
In some places I see they're makin' unions. That an't no good." "Why?" The old man smiled again. "Why! Think of it! The land's different to anythin' else that's why! Different work, different hours, four men's work to-day and one's to-morrow. Work land wi' unions, same as they've got in this 'ere factory, wi' their eight hours an' their do this an' don' do that? No!
What a family for a poor woman to support! 'It's a family, surely, ma'am; but there an't one of 'em I'd be willing to lose. They are as good children as need to be all willing to work, and all clever to me.
'Now let me hear some more about the Crorkindills, said Peggotty, who was not quite right in the name yet, 'for I an't heard half enough. I couldn't quite understand why Peggotty looked so queer, or why she was so ready to go back to the crocodiles.
There's the same mignonette box in the middle of the window, and the same four flower-pots, two on each side, that I brought with me when I first came. There an't I've said it again and again, and I'll maintain it there an't such a square as this in the world. I KNOW there an't, said Tim, with sudden energy, and looking sternly about him. 'Not one.
"Sure, it's only to see the counthry, about here, we've come," replied the Irish stranger. "No, Partrick, you know that is not the truth. Never tell a lie for anything, Partrick. Our business an't with him, but it consarns him. We don't care about mentioning it to everybody." "I do not mean to be impertinent," said Dalhousie; "but perhaps I may be able to serve you. The man you seek is a villain!"
I guess if our folks in them days did n't care no great abaout Lord Percy and Sir William Haowe, we an't a-gon' to be scart by Sir Michael Fagan and Sir Hans What 's-his-name, nor no other fellahs that undertakes to be noblemen, and tells us common folks what we shall dew an' what we sha'n't. No, sir!
Take my word for it, that, if I am alive, I shall be paying a visit at Delaford Parsonage before Michaelmas; and I am sure I shan't go if Lucy an't there." Elinor was quite of her opinion, as to the probability of their not waiting for any thing more.
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