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"He knawed I was at low ebb an' not able to pick an' choose. So he gives me a starvin' man's job. If I'd been in easy circumstances an' able to say 'Yes' or 'No' at choice, I'd never have blamed un." "Nonsense and stuff!" declared Mr. Chapple. "Theer's not a shadow of shame in it." "You'm Miller's friend, of coourse," said Will.
"I'm sure you've made a braave job of it. I'll read it fust thing to-morrow." "You shall hear it now." "Not now, Will; 't is so late an' I'm three paarts asleep. Come to bed, dearie." "Oh if you doan't care if it's nought to you that I've sit up all night slavin' for our gude " "Then I'll hear it now. Coourse I knaw 't is fine readin'. Awnly I thought you'd be weary."
Thank God, I'm not a parent to my knowledge; but 'tis a difficult calling in life, an' a young maiden gal, purty as a picksher, be a heavy load to a honest mind." "So I find it," said the miller. "You've forbid Will lock, stock, and barrel therefore, of coourse, she 's no right to think more of him, to begin with," continued the old man. It was a new idea.
"I've got my share o' warm blood, tu, Billy." It was apparent. Mrs. Coomstock's plump neck bulged in creases over the dirty scrap of white linen that represented a collar, while her massive bust seemed bursting through her apparel. "Coourse," said Mr. Blee, "an' your share, an' more 'n your share o' brains, tu.
So I did; an' if the sight o' the smoke an' then hearin' o' mother's trouble didn't blaw the whole business out of my brain!" He stood amazed at his own complete forgetfulness. "Queer, to be sure! But coourse theer weern't room in my mind for anything but mother arter I seed her stricken down." During the evening, after final reports from Mrs.
Long he took in detailing every incident and circumstance. "Coming to think," he said, "of coourse 't is clear as Grimbal must knaw my auld master. I seed his name raised to a Major in the Western Morning News a few year agone, an' he was to Okehampton with a battalion when Hicks come by his death.
Miller Lyddon was about to suggest a night-cap for Billy, but changed his mind. "Enough 's as gude as a feast," he said. "Canst get up-stairs wi'out help?" "Coourse I can! But the chap to the 'Green Man's' that perfuse wi' his liquor at seasons of rejoicing. More went down than was chalked up; I allow that. If you'll light my chamber cannel, I'll thank 'e, missis; an' a Happy New Year to all."
What shall I do? How can I escape it? Oh, Will, say I can!" "In coourse you can. Awnly wan way, though; an' that's why I'm here. Us must be married right on end. Then he's got no more power over 'e than a drowned worm, nor Miller, nor any." "To think you can forgive me enough to marry me after all my wickedness! I never dreamed theer was such a big heart in the world as yourn."
"'T is queer to me how short of friends I 'pear to be gettin'," confessed Will gloomily. "I must be differ'nt to what I fancied for I allus felt I could do with a waggon-load of friends. Yet they 'm droppin' off. Coourse I knaw why well enough, tu.
"So I do pride myself on my common sense, an' I've some right to. A cross is a cross I allow that and whatever I may think, I ban't so small-minded as to fall foul of them as think differ'nt. My awn mother be a church-goer for that matter, an' you'll look far ways for her equal. But of coourse I knaw what I knaw. Me an' Hicks talked out matters of religion so dry as chaff."
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