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Blanchard wouldn't try to treat a case if he had no knowledge of medicine he wouldn't try to set a broken leg if he had never studied anatomy. You wouldn't be in charge, here, if you didn't know the district, if you didn't realize the psychological reasons back of the things that the people of the district say and do.
Alf was altogether subdued by this account: it had that degree of intimacy which, when one is in a sentimental mood, will always be absorbing. He felt that he really was getting to the bottom of the mystery known to him as Jenny Blanchard. The picture had verisimilitude. He could see Jenny as he listened.
Four-and-thirty short years he lived, then the world beginned to ope its eyes to his paarts, an' awnly then tu late, when the thread of his days was spun. What's the world to you and why should you care for its word, Chris Blanchard?" "Because I am Chris Blanchard," she said. "I was gwaine to kill myself, but thought to see his dear face wance more before I done it. Now " "Kill yourself!
Will stood still and uttered a triumphant but inarticulate sound half-laugh, half-sob, half-thanksgiving. Then the man spoke, slow and deep, "He shall go for a soldier!" "Theer! Now I knaw 't is Blanchard back an' no other! Hear me, will 'e; doan't plan no such uneven way of life for un." "By God, he shall!" The words came back over Will Blanchard's shoulder, for he was fast vanishing.
She had let her cottage to holiday folk, and was spending a month on the Moor. Mrs. Blanchard surveyed the scene from under her sunbonnet and nodded. "Spare no trouble, no trouble, an' have it stacked come Saturday. Theer'll be thunder an' gert rains after this heat. Be the rushes ready for thatchin' of it?" "Not yet; but that's not to say I've forgot."
Those distractions open to a man of Grimbal's calibre presently blunted the edge of his loss, and successful developments of business also served to occupy him during the visit he paid to Africa; but no interests as yet had arisen to obscure or dull his hatred of Will Blanchard.
No balloon, as we have already seen, should be entirely inflated at the beginning of a journey. Blanchard had a narrow escape from being the victim of his ignorance of physics, and it is a wonder he was not left to the mercy of fate in a burst balloon, at several thousand feet above the earth.
'What does it matter about Herr Schliefer? Jill would say, in a sort of fury. 'I like him a hundred times better than I do that mincing little poll-parrot of a Madame Blanchard: she is odious, and I hate her, and I hate Fräulein too. It is not the lessons I mind; one has to learn lessons all one's life; it is being shut up like a bird in a cage when one's wings are ready for flight.
Blanchard, with little Timothy, joined the breakfast party at Monks Barton, and a certain gloom hanging over the party, Mr. Blee commented upon it in his usual critical spirit. "This here givin' in marriage do allus make a looker-on down in the mouth if he 's a sober-minded sort o' man.
He bent his head low over them, kissed his wife shyly, and peeped with proper timidity under the flannel. "Look, look, Will, dearie! Did 'e ever see aught like un? An' come evenin', he 'm gwaine to have his fust li'l drink!" The child brought all a child should bring to Newtake, though it could not hide the fact that Will Blanchard drifted daily a little nearer to the end of his resources.
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