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"It's her sheep, come to that," said Martha Tilden the chicken-girl. Fuller dealt her a consuming glance out of his eyes, which the long distances of the marsh had made keen as the sea wind. "She döan't know nothing about sheep, and I've been a looker after sheep since times when you and her was in your cradles, so I wöan't täake sass from neither of you."
It was at Yokes Court that she bought her roots, and from Becket's House her looker had come; Lydd and Rye and Romney were only market-towns you did best in cattle at Rye, but the other two were proper for sheep; Old Honeychild was just a farm where she had bought some good spades and dibbles at an auction; at Misleham they had once had foot-and-mouth disease she had gone to Picknye Bush for the character of Milly Pump, her chicken-girl....
She told herself that she was upset by Martha's revelation, but at the same time she knew it had upset her not so much in itself as in the disturbing new self-knowledge it had brought. She could not hide from herself that she was delighted, overjoyed to find that her shepherd did not love her chicken-girl, that the thoughts she had thought about them for nine months were but vain thoughts.
"It sounded best in the psalms," said Wilson, Joanna's looker since Socknersh's day "oh, the lovely grunts it made when it said 'Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee!" "So it did," said Broadhurst, "but I liked it best in the Herald Angels." "I liked it all through," said Milly Pump, the chicken-girl. "And I thought Mr.
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