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He'll come down. But I'm sore puzzled to knaw what this means, for awnly last night I heard tell from Jan Grimbal's awn lips that he'd chaanged his mind about a private matter bearin' on this." "I want the man, anyways, an' I be gwaine to have un," declared Inspector Chown. He brought a pair of handcuffs from his pocket and gave them to the constable.
"That's awnly to hasten the end." "The sooner the better." He tramped up and down the bedroom with his eyes on the ground, his hands in his pockets. "A tremendous thing to tumble up on the surface arter all these years; an' a tremendous time for it to come. 'T was a crime 'gainst the Queen for my awn gude ends. I had to choose 'tween her an' you; I'd do the same to-morrow. The fault weern't theer.
How was me an' Fagan t' know their skins would soak in wather like a pillow case? Small blame to us, Dugan." The big mayor took his head between his hands and stared moodily at the floor. "Go awn away!" he said after a while. "Ye have done for me an' th' byes, Toole. Ye have soaked us out of office, wan an' all of us. I want t' be alone. It is all over with us. Go awn away."
"So 't is; an' the fountains in the midst of the valleys be the awfullest part. Burnish it all! The high land had the worst of the winter, but we in the low coombs be gwaine to get the worst o' the spring safe as water allus runs down-long." "'T will find its awn level, which the prophet knawed." "I wish he knawed how soon." "'T is in the Word, I'll wager. I may come upon it yet."
I protested, as he rose to go. "What shoeing?" he asked incredulously. "You ain't meanin' a big strong guy like Chris manhandlin' a pore little filly? Come awn I can't stand to see him abusin' her no more." We wandered down to the big brown oval, and Blister, perching himself on the top rail of the fence, took out his stop-watch, although there were no horses on the track.
An' if you was took, which God forbid, theer'd be that mort o' money to come to Michael, him bein' your faither that is, s'pose the cheel was took tu, which God forbid likewise. An' he'd burn it every note I mean Michael. Now if you was to name Tom just in case o' accidents ? He'm of your awn blood by's faither." "But my baaby must be fust." "In coorse er must. 'Tis lawful an' right.
An' his black heart happy an' content 'cause he've sent this filth. You stare, wi' your mother's eyes you stare, an' stare. Hell's yawning for 'e, wretched wummon, an' for him as brot 'e to it!" "He doan't believe in hell, no more doan't I," said Joan calmly; "an' it ban't a faither's plaace to damn's awn flaish an' blood no way." "Never name me thy faither no more!
"You go awn and start something and you'll wisht you hadn't," they heard him croak from the big gate, and chuckled over his wrath. As a matter of fact, the Happy Family, as a whole, or as individuals, had no intention of committing any great violence that evening.
His brows were dragged down upon them; he had brushed his gray hair like bristles upright on his head; across the mighty wall of his forehead jagged cross-lines were stamped, like the broken strata over a cliff-face. "Ay, you say it. Vengeance be God's awn, an' mercy be God's awn. 'Tedn' for no man to meddle wi' them. Us caan't be aught but just. She'll have justice from me no more'n that.
"No one ever accused me of that before! Was that the staggering piece of information that Biddy has imparted to you?" "No," she said, a fleeting smile upon her awn face. "It was it was about Scott. It took my breath away, that's all." "That all?" said Eustace with a faintly wry lift of one eyebrow. She slipped a shy arm around his neck. "Eustace, do you do you think I ought to let Scott marry me?"
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