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I don't fancy none o' that that ha' got the taste o' the shop in it." "Doctor, he put his hid in at the door this afternoon," Mrs Littleproud went on; "he'd got his monkey up, the old doctor had! ''Tis a rank shame, he say, 'there ain't none o' these here lazy women o' Dulditch with heart enough to go to help that poor critter in her necessity, he say."
But now, with this burying money ! The new-made widower enjoyed the hitherto undreamed-of experience of knowing that he might put in for a glass at every public-house he passed, and not exhaust it. He treated himself to a tin of salmon to have with his supper, when he got back to Dulditch.
The sixpenn'orths of brandy Depper, too late relenting, spared from the sum he had hitherto expended on his own beer public-house brandy, poisonous stuff, but accredited by the labouring population of Dulditch with all but magical restorative powers for once failed in its effect.
Above, Dinah Brome and that old woman who had a reputation in Dulditch for the laying-out of corpses, decked the poor cold body in such warmth of white flannelette, and such garniture of snipped-out frilling as, alive, Car'line Kittle could never have hoped to attain to. These last duties achieved, Dinah descended, her arms full of blankets and pillows, no longer necessary above.
If each of these small centres possessed a scribe of genius, or at any rate one with a capacity for taking pains, who would collect and print in proper form these remembered events, every village would in time have its own little library of local history, the volumes labelled respectively, "A Village Tragedy", "The Fields of Dulditch", "Life's Little Ironies", "Children's Children", and various others whose titles every reader will be able to supply.
"'Dinah Brome, sir, I say, 'is the most industrousest woman in Dulditch; arly and late, I say, 'she's at wark; and as for her floors you might eat off of 'em." She screwed the half-dozen hard red balls in their bit of paper, and stowed them lightly in the customer's basket. "That the lot this week, Dinah?" Dinah removed her basket from counter to arm.
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