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"Faix, then, I dunna barrin' that you're in the black books wid him, and that you'd have a better chance of gettin' in undher a stranger that didn't know you." "Nanny," he replied, laughing, "you are certainly a very smart girl, and indeed a very pretty girl a very interesting young woman, indeed, Nanny; but you won't listen to reason."
'Who is it? he asked in rather a jovial tone. He felt at peace with the world now Hazel was here. 'Beast! Edward said tersely. 'Just come in a minute, my lad, and let's have a look at you. People don't call me names twice. Hazel had heard Edward's voice. She ran to the door, and the apple-green gown rustled about her. 'Ed'ard! Ed'ard! Dunna go for to miscall him! He'll hurt 'ee!
'Canna you stop meddling wi' the music and come to supper? asked Hazel. The harp was always called 'the music, just as Abel's mouth-organ was 'the little music. She reached down the flitch to cut some bacon off, and her dress, already torn, ripped from shoulder to waist. 'If you dunna take needle to that, you'll be mother-naked afore a week's out, said Abel indifferently.
'I like the way you say it, she interrupted. 'Ah! I like it right well! Breathin' strong, like folk coming up the Monkey's Ladder. 'Whatever's that? 'Dunna you know Monkey's Ladder? It's that road there. Somebody's coming up it now on a horse. They both looked down at Reddin climbing slowly and still some way off.
I'll dance a round with her myself in the hall at night." "Theere now, Meg, whoy dunna ye may t' squoire a curtsy, wench, an thonk him," said Tetlow, nudging his pretty wife, who had turned away, rather embarrassed by the free gaze of the squire. Nicholas, however, did not wait for the curtsy, but went away, laughing, to overtake Richard Assheton, who had walked on.
'She'll do, he said, and did not wonder whether he would do himself. Then he gave a smothered exclamation. She had opened the window, pushing the snowy ivy aside, and she leant out, her breast under its folds of silk resting on the snow. She looked over his head into the immensity of night. 'Dunna let 'un take my good name, for the old feller says I'd ought to keep it, she said.
'You're to start as soon as they're in church, d'you see? 'Maybe I 'unna come. 'You've got to. Look here, Hazel, you like having a lover, don't you? 'I dunno. 'Hazel! I'll bring you a present. 'I dunna want it. What is it? she said in a breath. 'Something nice. Then you promise to come? There was a long silence. Her eyes seemed to her to be caught by his. She could not look away.
That is some consolation, though slight. But how do you know all this, Nance?" "Dunna ax me," she replied. "Whatever ey ha' been to Christopher Demdike, ey bear him neaw love now; fo', as ey ha towd yo, he is a black-hearted murtherin' villain. Boh lemme get up behind yo, an ey'n bring yo through scatheless. An to-morrow yo may arrest the whole band at Malkin Tower."
"Ey knoa it," replied Nance; "an ey knoa also why he went there, an it wur my intention to ha' revealed his black design to yo. However, it has bin ordert differently. Boh in respect to t'others, wait till I gie yo the signal. They are disguised; boh even if ye see 'em, an recognise 'em, dunna let it appear till ey gie the word, or yo'n spoil aw."
These people are Jacobites!" "Gom, I dunna know what that be, but I wish Stafford-sheer was full on 'em. 'Tinna any good chokin' y'rsen, I shanna let go." This method of keeping him, however, rendered the alewife useless, so I took her place, and bade her fetch the longest and toughest rope she'd got.
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