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Wainwright withdrew, and her husband, left to himself, proceeded to relieve his feelings by tossing his pillows over the back of the chair, and extricating his suffering limb from the blankets. "I'm welly smoored," he remarked indignantly, half aloud, "welly smoored I am. They reckon I'm a babby to be croodled and cossetted this gate.
His dog followed with its nose at his ankles. If some other dog, in youthful frolic, frisked and barked about it, it snarled and snapped, and then croodled down at his master's feet and looked ashamed. "Dempster, Dempster, getting a bit ould, eh?" said the man. After a little while he went quietly away. Nobody missed him; nobody had observed him. He had gone back to the town.
Left thus for long spaces in the company of Betty and the child, that daffed and croodled about her, and even became warmly friendly with me for the sake of my Paris watch and my glittering waistcoat buttons, I made many gallant attempts to get on my old easy footing.
It was nearly dark, and growing very cold. The lads croodled down by the crackling blaze, and tried to forget that they had forgotten tea-time. "We never has to mind a bit of hungry," said Philip stoutly. "Never a ha'p'orth," said Pete. "Only when the job's done we have hams and flitches and things for supper." "Aw, yes, ateing and drinking to the full." "Rum, Pete, we always drinks rum."
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