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But oi doan't see how he can go till he has laid that by, and in these hard toimes it ull take him some time to do that." "I will provide the money," Ned said eagerly. "Abijah would lend me some of her savings, and I can pay her back some day." "Very well, Maister Ned. Oi expect as how he will take it as a loan. Moind, he will pay it hack if he lives, honest.
"Bwoy!" he said loudly, "doan't 'e be deceived that way. 'Gird 'e wi' sackcloth, lament and howl; for the fierce anger o' the Lard is not turned back from us. Three months o' righteousness is a purty bad set off 'gainst twenty years o' sin, an' it doan't become 'e to feel hopeful, I 'sure ye." The sick man's color paled, and a certain note as of triumph in his voice died out of it.
"I doan't want to fight thee," said Isaac at length, "but I be thinking 'twould be best to take thee home." And suddenly dashing in he seized Jarvis round the waist with one arm, grasped him round the legs with the other, and flung the big man across his shoulder, and carried him off, struggling and shouting, to his cottage.
As for Eradicate he was busy collecting numbers of the small golden statues, and stuffing them in his pockets. "Why don't you take bigger ones, and not so many of them?" asked Tom. "'Case as how I doan't want all mah eggs in one basket," replied the colored man. "I kin carry mo' ob de little fellers," and he persisted in this plan.
"Noat to-night, Mr. Gourlay," he stammered and his unusual flutter of refusal might have warned Gourlay "noat to-night, if you please; noat to-night, if you please. As a matter of fact eh what I really came into the town for, doan't you see, was eh to attend the meeting the Provost has convened about the railway. You'll come down to the meeting, will ye noat?"
You sez you be a worm twenty times a day, an' yet you'm proud enough for Satan hisself purty nigh. If you'm a worm, why doan't 'e act like a worm an' be humble-minded? 'Tis the lil childern gets into heaven. You'm stiff-necked, Michael Tregenza. I sez it respectful an' in sorrer; but 'tis true."
"Oi don't want to hurt ee, but oi've got to do as oi were bid, and if ee doan't go back oi've got to make ee. There be summat a-going on thar," and he jerked his head behind him, "as it wouldn't be good vor ee to see, and ye bain't a-going vor to see it." But Ned and Tompkins were desperate now, and dropping their rods made a rush together against him.
But doan't 'ee play the vule wi' Master Peter, Miss Zairy. Take 'un while yu can git 'un, will 'ee? And be glad tu git 'un. Yu listen tu I, vor I be a turble witty man, and I be giving of yu gude advice, Miss Zairy." "I am listening, Jack, and you know I always take your advice." "Ah! if 'twerent' for the anny-dominy, I'd be tu yure wedding," sighed Happy Jack, "zame as I were tu Mary Ann's.
He says he has got interest in London at the Horse Guards, and will get the application of the lord lieutenant backed up there; so I hope that in a couple of months at latest it will all be settled." "Oi hope so, oi am sure, vor oi be main sick of this. However, oi can hold on for another couple of months; they know anyhow as it ain't from cowardice as I doan't join them.
God forgive the woman." "A gypsy's baby, I reckon," said Phoebe languidly. "I doan't think it," answered her husband; "I'm most feared to guess what 'tis. Wan thing's sure; I was called loud an' clear or I'd never have turned back; an' yet, second time I was called, my flesh crept." "The little flannels an' frock be thick an' gude, but they doan't shaw nought."
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