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"I'd bet on my own ale," said he, "if the 'Angel' was full of devils let alone petticoats. An', as between friends, y'r 'onour, win or lose, dunna tell my missus you've 'ad better ale than ourn." I drank off his ale and said judiciously, "No, I haven't. That's the best ale I've ever drunk," and handed him his guinea.
La, who but a madman begging your honour's pardon it's a matter of twenty years since fader lived at Saint Bees, which is twenty, or forty, or I dunna know not how many miles from this part, to the West, on the coast side; and I would not have left Saint Bees, but that fader' 'Oh, the devil take your father! replied I.
'They shan't want for feedin', says he; 'for it's a rich man I'll be soon, and a great man too. 'Usha, but I'm glad to hear it, darlin', though I dunna how it's to be, but I think you had betther go to bed, Thady. 'Don't talk to me of any bed but the bed o' glory, woman, says he, lookin' mortial grand. 'Oh!
Mr. James looked at Abel as much as to say, 'You've got your prize, you see! It's quite fair. 'Thank yer, said Abel to Miss Clomber, and then to James with fine irony: 'You dunna keep bees, do yer, Mr. James? The hills loomed in the dusk over the show-ground. They were of a cold and terrific colour, neither purple nor black nor grey, but partaking of all.
Her one instinct was for flight. But there was Edward. She turned her back on the semi-circle of eyes, and put a trembling hand on Edward's shoulder. He grasped it. 'Forgive me, dear! he whispered. 'And go, now, go into the woods; they're not as cold as these. When I've done with them we'll go away, far away from hell. 'I dunna mind 'em, said Hazel. 'What for should I, my soul?
You've put a spell on me! she moaned. 'I want to be along of Ed'ard, and you've bound me to be along of you. I dunna like you, but I canna think of ought else! She fought a hard battle that night. The compulsion to get up and go straight to Undern was so strong that it could only be compared to the pull of matter on matter.
He's stronger'n you. Do 'ee go back, Ed'ard! 'Never! till you come, too. 'I like that, said Reddin. 'Can't you see she's got my gown on her back? She's mine. She was never yours. He looked meaningly and triumphantly at Edward. 'Oh, dunna, Jack! What for do you go to shame me? said Hazel, twisting her hands. Edward took no notice of her.
Jane yelped as I murdered an incipient kiss by knocking the jug out of his hand across the kitchen, but in kicking him out of doors I tripped over a bucket of water, and about half a score fine dace flopped miserably on the wet floor. "Dunna carry on a' that'n, Master Noll," said Joe. "I only com' up t'ouse to bring you them daceys." "And what the devil do I want with them?" said I angrily.
It was clearly his intention, I could see, to make me tipsy, and I dare say he might a done so, only for a slight mistake he made in first getting tipsy himself." "Well, but I'm not much the wiser of this," observed Norton. "What are you at?" "Neither am I," replied Morty; "and as to what I'm at I dunna what the devil I'm at. That's just what I want to know."
"No, avourneen, no, I won't say what I was goin' to mintion. I won't indeed, Ellish, dear; an' forgive me for woundin' your feelin's alanna dhas. I dunna what put her into my head at all; but I thought you wor jokin' me about my eyes: an' sure if you war, acushla, that's no rason that I'd not allow you to do that an' more wid your own Pether.
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