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Mavis instantly pulled up her skirt in true country fashion to make a cloak, and told Mary to help her open the kitchen door. "You bide where you be, Mrs. Dale," said the old charwoman. "You ben't goin' to be no use of any kind out there, and you may bring yourself to a misfortune." But Mavis insisted on struggling through the doorway, into the rude embrace of the weather.
"I am indeed of your opinion-of your way of thinking, most certainly," interpolates Madame Montford, a shadow of melancholy darkening her countenance. "At length, he went at it, and repeated over an infinite quantity of names. It was wonderful to see how he could keep them all in his head. 'Well, now, says he, turning to me with an inoffensive laugh, 'she ben't dead. You may bet on that.
So they started: but as Amyas was getting into the saddle, he saw that there was some stir among the servants, who seemed to keep carefully out of Yeo's way, whispering and nodding mysteriously; and just as his foot was in the stirrup, Anthony, the old butler, plucked him back. "Dear father alive, Mr. Amyas!" whispered he: "and you ben't going by the moor road all alone with that chap?"
"It be a shame," Dirk said to his wife, after Noll had gone, one day, "that the lad hev ter stan' up, an' ben't able ter find a seat, nohow. I tell ye it be a shame, woman!" "Ye might mend the chairs a bit, man!" retorted Mrs. Sharp. "I'll warrant the lad be able ter find a seat then."
I seed him preaching to that 'ere Crawy, three or four times when he ought to have hauled him up. He consorts with them poachers, sir, uncommon. I hope he ben't one himself, that's all. 'Nonsense, Harry! 'Oh? Eh? Don't say old Harry don't know nothing, that's all. I've fixed his flint, anyhow. 'Ah! Smith! shouted the squire out of his study window, with a cheerful and appropriate oath.
You ben't the daughter of Morgan Montgomery, be you?" "Yes, I am," said Ellen, half-smiling. "And you are come to make a visit to Miss Fortune, eh?" "Yes," said Ellen, smiling no longer. "And Miss Fortune han't come up to meet you! that's real shabby of her; and how to get you down there to-night, I am sure is more than I can tell." And he shouted, "Wife!" "What's the matter, Mr.
His knock brought a woman to the door. "I think Mr. North lives here?" "Yes, sir, he do live yere," the woman answered, in a simple tone. "Would you wish for to see him?" "Please ask him if he could see a gentleman on business Mr. Marks." "But he ben't in, sir, not just now. He" she broke off and pointed up the street. "Why, there he come, I declare!" "The tall man?" "That be he, sir."
Here was just what I wanted. "Hold your tongue, Harry," said Joe angrily. "You're talking of what you don't know anything about." "Well, Joe, I ben't a fool, if I ben't so religious as you be. You ben't a bad fellow, though you be a Methodist, and I ben't a fool, though I be Harry Cobb." "What do you mean, Harry? Do hold your tongue."
Law! but that's a pretty bairn, ben't it." Lettice took the offered chair and sat down, still holding the baby; the nurse occupied the other; the young man continued standing. "I am afraid we have interrupted you," said Lettice, glancing at the book. "Oh, pray don't think of it! I am in no hurry to be gone. My time," with a suppressed sigh, "is all my own. I will finish my lecture by-and-by."
"Come up bright and smilin', eigh? Now I guess" the emphasis made it clear that the captain believed himself to be employing an Americanism; and so successful was he in his own esteem that he could not resist the temptation to improve upon the imitation "Na-ow I guess yeou're abaout right ready, ben't ye, to hev a drink, sonny?" "No, thank you," said Kirkwood, smiling tolerantly.
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