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All were silent for a few moments, then Sylvia said 'How good she is! And Philip replied with ready warmth, 'Yes, she is; no one knows how good but us, who live in the same house wi' her. 'Her mother is an old Quakeress, bean't she? Molly inquired. 'Alice Rose is a Friend, if that is what you mean, said Philip. 'Well, well! some folk's so particular.
My heart sank into my shoes, Miss Hallam, and I said, 'That's a varry unlikely thing, lads; you're just talking for talking's sake. And Jerry Oddy said, 'Nay, we bean't, dame; Jonathan Clough is dying, and he says Ben Craven shot him. Then I said, 'He'll die wi' t' lie on his lips if he says that, thou tell him so. And Jerry Oddy said, 'Not I, dame, keep a still tongue i' thy mouth, it'll mebbe be better for thee."
"A-burnin' and a-burnin', and a-making o' volk madder and madder; but tek thou my word vor't, Joan, and I bean't wrong not twice i' ten year, the burnin' o' the owld archbishop 'ill burn the Pwoap out o' this 'ere land for iver and iver."
Brigson was quite wicked enough to have embezzled it for his own purposes. "Go," he said to the man; "you shall have the money in a week." "And mind it bean't more nor a week. I don't chuse to wait for my money no more," said Billy, impudently, as he retired with an undisguised chuckle, which very nearly made Eric kick him down stairs. What was to be done?
"And a likely way you went about to get it! Stopping me in the dark, on a lonely road, just like common robbers. I did not think any Enderley men would have done a thing so cowardly." "We bean't cowards," was the surly answer. "Thee carries pistols, Mr. Halifax." "You forced me to do it. My life is as precious to my wife and children, as as that poor fellow's to his." John stopped.
"I'll work for 'e no more; my mind's made up, an' when my mind's made up theer bean't no movin' me like a rock I be!" "'Twould ha' been a fine thing for a Siss'n'urst man to ha' mended t' owd screen!" said the Ancient. "'Twould that!" nodded Simon, "a shame it is as it should go to others." Hereupon, having finished my ale, I rose. "Be you'm a-goin', young maister?" inquired the Ancient.
I bean't content to lose the old horse as I've shod mayhap for twenty years no, not if I bean't his master!" "There's no help for it, though!" "None as I knows on. I'd be main glad to hear any news on the subjec' as you can supply! No, I ain't content; I'm sorry!" "Why don't the parsons say the old horse'll rise again?" "'Cause the parsons knows nought about it. How should they?"
The Ploughman scratched his ear, and carried his glance from my face up to the sky, and down again. "I dunno," he answered, "but I bean't." "Yet you whistle gayly enough." "Why, a man must do summat." "Then, you seem strong and healthy." "Yes, I do be fine an' hearty." "And sleep well?" "Like a blessed log." "And eat well?" "Eat!" he exclaimed, with a mighty laugh. "Lord!
"That be a lesson for you, lad. Schemin' work bean't the thing, you see. It comes back to cuss one; while work as be well did be often like a blessin' arterward, just as this tarpolin be now. But see! as I told you, the rain would soon be over. There be the sun again, hot an' fiery as ever. There ain't no time to waste. Take a big drink, afore I put the stopper into the bottle."
They'd roit, and roit, and roit, and tak' oot the dook-gunes to un they would, as they did five-and-twenty year agone. Never to goo ayond the housen! never to go ayond the housen! Kill me in a three months, that would bor', then!" "Are you a farmer?" I asked, at last, thinking that my turn for questioning was come. "I bean't varmer; I be yooman born. Never paid rent in moy life, nor never wool.
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