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And just as Harold was leaving the room, like a school-boy, he called him in again. 'I havena' told thee, Harold, as I'm subject to attacks. I'm getting up in years. I go off like. It isna' fits, but I go off. And if it should happen while I'm here, dunna' be alarmed. 'What are we to do? 'Do nothing. I come round in a minute or two. Whatever ye do, dunna' give me brandy.
'You're like a hound-dog when you laugh like to that, she said, 'and I dunna like the hound-dogs. He stopped laughing. Abel's harp beat upon them, and the soft thudding of feet on the turf, like sheep stamping, had grown in volume as the shyest were gradually drawn into the revelry. A rainstorm, shaped like a pillar, walked slowly along the valley, skirting the base of the hills.
"Why man alive, it's through the whole parish inready;" he then went on, lowering his voice to a whisper, and speaking in a tone bordering on dismay. The other crossed himself, and betrayed symptoms of awe and astonishment, not un-mingled with fear. "Well," he replied, "I dunna whether I'd come here, if I'd known that; for, innocent or guilty, I would'nt wish to be near it.
And, she added, with playful malice, "Who was wrong whon she said the queen could choose Master Richard " "Hush, Jennet, not a word more," interrupted Alizon, blushing. "Oh! ey dunna mean to vex ye, ey'm sure," replied Jennet. "Ey've got a present for ye." "A present for me, Jennet," cried Alizon; "what is it?" "A beautiful white dove," replied the little girl. "A white dove! Where did you get it?
"Troth I dunna who he is," she replied; "he's some poor boy on his keepin', about tithes, tha' He brought here to-night." "That's a cursed lie, Molly; wid' many respects to you, He couldn't a' been here to-night."
"As to that," said Bartle, "I don't much mind it. Sure it'll be for the good o' my sowl, any way. But what wages will you be givin'?" "Thirty shillings every half year; that's three pounds sixty shillings a year. A great deal o' money. I'm sure I dunna where it's to come from."
"But, sure, Frank," said the simple-minded creature, "one cannot prevint the memory from, goin' back to the early times, when we wor happy, and when the world was no trouble to us." There was a pause, and after a little she added, "I dunna is the night clearin'?"
She's seventy-six come June, but I dunna think she'll live to see it, and to be sure, God bless her, I shall be glad to see her broken heart at rest." She put a smelling-bottle to her mistress's nose, and bathed the white lips with eau-de-Luce. "I love her no end," she said simply. It was time to go. I dropped on my knee and kissed the fair, thin, wrinkled hand.
It might kill me so th' doctor says. I'm only telling thee in case. 'Well, I hope you won't have an attack, said Harold. 'It's a hundred to one I dunna', said Dan. And Harold departed. Soon afterwards Uncle Dan wandered into a kitchen full of servants. 'Show me th' missis's bedroom, one on ye, he said to the crowd. And presently he was knocking at Maud's door. 'Maudie!
But theer, I'd be afeard to set lips to some o' them kickshawses as goes down into the nattlens o' high folk, an', all said an' done, a man canna be more'n full, even so it bin wi' nowt but turmuts an' Cheshire cheese. "Well, sir, 'tis fine to be an elder son, that's true, an' dunna ye take on about it.
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