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"T' minister'll mebbe coom if t' weather hods up." "Daffady do you think that when you don't agree with people about religion it's right and proper to sit every night and tear them to pieces?" The colour had suddenly flooded her pale face her attitude had thrown off languor. Daffady showed embarrassment. "Well, noa, missie Aa doan't hod mysen wi personalities.
Father Bowles might be in a "parlish" state; but as to all supporters of bishops and the heathenish custom of fixed prayers whether they wore black gowns or no "a man mut hae his doots." Never had Daffady been so successful with his shafts as on this particular evening. Mrs. Mason grew redder and redder; her large face alternately flamed and darkened in the firelight.
She told stories of Daffady and the farm; she gossiped with Sister Rosa; she alternately teased and coaxed Fricka. Sister Rosa had been a little cool to her at first after the affair of the relic. But Miss Fountain was so charming this afternoon, so sweet to her stepmother, so amiable to other people, that the little nurse could not resist her.
"Yes, I must go. I think so I hope so!" She checked herself. "But I'll wrap up." "Mrs. Fountain's nobbut sadly, I unnerstan?" "She's rather better again. But I must go to-morrow. Daffady, Cousin Elizabeth won't forget to bring up the letters?" "I niver knew her du sich a thing as thattens," said Daffady, with caution. "And do you happen to know whether Mr. Bayley is coming to supper?"
Her chest heaved with one long breath, then subsided; her brow tightened. She turned to her son. "Art tha goin to let Daffady do all thy work for tha?" she said sharply. "Has t' roan calf bin looked to?" "Aye I'm going," said Hubert evasively, and sheepishly straightening himself he made for the front door, throwing back more than one look as he departed at his new cousin.
"Because I'll be measter!" he said, bringing his hand violently down on the shaft of the pony cart. "If I'm to stay on in this beastly hole I'll make every one knaw their place. Let mother give me some money, an I'll soon take myself off, an leave her an Daffady to draw their own water their own way. But if I'm here I'm measter!" He struck the cart again.
I don't think you should stick pins when you're dying dying!" she repeated the word with a passionate energy "going quite away for ever." Then, with a sudden change of tone "Can I have the cart to-morrow, Daffady?" Daffady, who had been piling the fire with fresh peat, paused and looked down upon her.
Polly coughed loudly, and tried to make a diversion by getting up to clear away the plates. The three combatants took no notice. Daffady slowly ran his tongue round his lips; then he said, again looking at the mistress: "If a hadna turned her I dew believe she'd ha' gien oos t' slip she was terr'ble swollen as 'twos." "I tell tha to let her be!" thundered Hubert.
Mason moreover was discontented with the terms under which she sold her milk; and there were inquiries to be made as to another factor, and perhaps a new bargain to be struck. "Oh, the missis woan't be heaem till dark," said Daffady. "She's not yan to do her business i' haaeste. She'll see to 't aa hersen. An she's reet there.
Whether it was a continuous supply of peat for the fire in these chilly April days; or a newspaper from the town; or a bundle of daffodils from the wood below some signs of a fatherly mind he was always showing towards this little drone in the hive. And Laura delighted in him racked her brains to keep him talking by the fireside. "Well, Daffady, I'll take your advice.
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