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We'll just clem them to death first; and see who'll work for 'em then. They'll have killed the goose that laid 'em the golden eggs, I reckon. 'And so you plan dying, in order to be revenged upon them! 'No, said he, 'I dunnot. I just look forward to the chance of dying at my post sooner than yield. That's what folk call fine and honourable in a soldier, and why not in a poor weaver-chap?
Holmes, he's hed a pore chance in livin', forgive him this! Him that'll come to-morrow 'd say to forgive him this." She caught the old man's head in her arms with an agony of tears, and held it tight. "I hev hed a pore chance," he said, looking up, "that's God's truth, Lo! I dunnot keer fur that: it's too late goin' back.
'I thank yo' kindly, sir, but I'd as lief stand on my own bottom. I dunnot stomach the notion of having favour curried for me, by one as doesn't know the ins and outs of the quarrel. Meddling 'twixt master and man is liker meddling 'twixt husband and wife than aught else: it takes a deal o' wisdom for to do ony good. I'll stand guard at the lodge door.
All this time Hester was hastily putting on her hat and cloak, which she had fetched from the closet where they usually hung through the day; now she stood listening, as it were, for final directions. 'But suppose they will not come, said she; 'they dunnot know me, and mayn't believe my words. 'They must, said he, impatiently. 'They don't know what awaits 'em, he continued.
"Dunnot be so mad," she pleaded, laying her hand upon his arm. "I didn't think to vex ye. I nobbut looked about for the best I could find. They flowers ye didn't seem to set mich store by, and I could on'y get a twothree now and again when theer was nobry about." He shook her off with an angry laugh. "So the flowers were stolen, too! Now, look you, Sally, I'm goin' to have an end o' this.
There was a lack of practicalness in such faith in another man as expressed itself in the wistful, hesitant voice. "Did he say he'd give you work?" asked the first man who had questioned him, the Welshman Evans. "No. I dunnot think I dunnot think he'd know me if he seed me. Theer wur so many on us." Another exchange of glances, and then another question: "Where are you going to stay?"
"Would you tell us the way to Outland?" The guileless peasant turned with a sheepish grin. "Hey?" was all he said. "The way to Outland!" the Professor repeated. The guileless peasant set down his buckets and considered. "Ah dunnot " "I ought to mention," the Professor hastily put in, "that whatever you say will be used in evidence against you." The guileless peasant instantly resumed his buckets.
Do it gently, man, but do it quick, for we canna leave him here long. 'I canna go, said Higgins. 'Dunnot ask me. I canna face her. 'Thou knows her best, said the man. 'We'n done a deal in bringing him here thou take thy share. 'I canna do it, said Higgins. 'I'm welly felled wi' seeing him. We wasn't friends; and now he's dead. 'Well, if thou wunnot thou wunnot. Some one mun, though.
Philip's very good, and kind, and he says he shall die if I will not marry him, and there's no home for mother and me, no home for her, for as for me I dunnot care what becomes on me; but if Charley's alive I cannot marry Philip no, not if he dies for want o' me and as for mother, poor mother, Kester, it's an awful strait; only first tell me if there's a chance, just one in a thousand, only one in a hundred thousand, as Charley were ta'en by t' gang? She was breathless by this time, what with her hurried words, and what with the beating of her heart.
As she spoke, she got up and went towards the child, as if to take her up. 'Do away! do away! cried Bella, in shrill affright at this movement. 'Dunnot, said Sylvia; 'she's shy; she doesn't know strangers. But Mrs. Brunton had grasped the struggling, kicking child by this time, and her reward for this was a vehement little slap in the face.
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