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But Lo's a good teacher, 'n' I'm tryin', I'm tryin' hard." "It's not slow, Sir, seein' father hedn't 'dvantages, like me. He was a" She stopped, lowering her voice, a hot flush of shame on her face. "I know." "Ben't that 'n 'xcuse, master, seein' I knowed noght at the beginnin'? Thenk o' that, master. I'm tryin' to be a different man. Fur Lo. I am tryin'." Holmes did not notice him.
"I have not done no wrong; it ben't my fault, and 't is that which kills me!" concluded Lenny, with a burst of energy. "You have not done wrong? Then," said the philosopher, drawing out his pocket-handkerchief with great composure, and spreading it on the ground, "then I may sit beside you. I could only stoop pityingly over sin, but I can lie down on equal terms with misfortune."
He was satisfied now; and creeping back to Dan'l, he dropped his full length in the bracken and lay and laughed. "But what's the gun for?" Dan'l demanded. "You've told me often enough about the seals on this bit of coast. Well, to-night, my friend, we're going to have some fun with them." "Doctor, doctor, think of the risk! Besides, I ben't strong enough for seal-hunting."
'Have they not done robbing you yet? said I; 'when they have finished let me know, and I will come and help you. 'Who is that? said the voice; 'pray come and help me, and do me no mischief. 'You were saying that some one was robbing you, said I; 'don't think I shall come till he is gone away. 'Then you ben't he? said the voice.
"You won't shut the door on me again?" pleaded 'Biades. "That depends on how slippy you look. I make no promises," answered 'Beida sternly. "'Twas you that first stole Mr Nanjivell's money, and if you ben't doin' it again, well I can only say as appearances be against him eh, 'Bert?" "Fetch it out, you varmint!" 'Bert commanded. "But I don't understand a word of this!" protested the mother.
"If I had sum 'un to watch here," thought he, "while I takes a turn by the water-side, p'r'aps summat might come out; p'r'aps them as did it ben't gone to church, but will come sneaking round to look on their willany! as they says murderers are always led back to the place where they ha' left the body.
"That's Dashing Jerry; I'll get out." So saying, he opened the door, jumped into the road, and presently reappeared with the lost and welcome Sidney in his arms. "Ben't this the boy?" he whispered to Mr. Spencer; and, taking the lamp from the carriage, he raised it to the child's face. "It is! it is! God be thanked!" exclaimed the worthy man.
Dale returned to the kitchen, "you've a 'aad a nice skimmle-skammle of it, sir, an' you best back me up to send the missis to her bed, and bide there warm, and never budge. I means it," she added, with authority. "You ben't to put yourself in a caddle, Mrs. Dale, an' I know what I be talkin' of."
Old Nicodemus had by this time again entered the room, unseen and unheard, and startled me confoundedly, as he screwed his words in his sharp cracked voice into my larboard ear. "Jane tells me your mamma is in a sad taking, Master Tom. You ben't going to leave us, all on a heap like, be you? Surely your stay until your sister comes from your uncle Job's?
"Ben't you even going to open and take a look at it?" asked Archelaus, as his master slowly replaced it in the box. "I think not.... Miss Cara will call for it, no doubt, since no doubt she has been watching for the steamer's arrival." Archelaus withdrew, reluctantly, not without a sense of expectation cheated. Nor, as it proved, was his grievance altogether groundless.
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