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'Such a chap as me is not like to see the measter. Th' o'erlooker bid me go and be d d. 'I wish you had seen Mr. Thornton, said Mr. Hale. 'He might not have given you work, but he would not have used such language. 'As to th' language, I'm welly used to it; it dunnot matter to me. I'm not nesh mysel' when I'm put out.
"Why, Deb!" he said, smiling, such a bright, boyish smile, that it went to poor Deborah's heart directly, and she sobbed and cried out loud. "Oh, Hugh, lad! Hugh! dunnot look at me, when it wur my fault! To think I brought hur to it! And I loved hur so! Oh, lad, I dud!" The confession, even in this wretch, came with the woman's blush through the sharp cry.
Tho. What fur, boy? Wull he gie mo mo Mattie again dosto think? Bill. That he will, daddy! You come along, an' you'll know a honest boy next time. I can't till I see Mr. William, though. Tho. Iv thae manes th' maister's mon yere, he's run eawt. An' aw connot goo witho. Aw'm keepin' th' shop till he coom back. An' aw dunnot mich care to goo witho. Aw dunnot mich trust tho.
If it were the deuce's own scribble, and yo' axed me to read in it for yo'r sake, and th' oud gentleman's, I'd do it. Whatten's this, wench? I'm not going for to take yo'r brass, so dunnot think it. We've been great friends, 'bout the sound o' money passing between us. 'For the children for Boucher's children, said Margaret, hurriedly. 'They may need it. You've no right to refuse it for them.
'If he were after her he were a big black scoundrel, that's what he were; and a wish he were alive again to be hung. But a dunnot believe it; them Corney lasses were allays a-talkin' an' a-thinking on sweethearts, and niver a man crossed t' threshold but they tried him on as a husband.
Well but, last neet I haven't towd nobry, because I didn't want to have 'em laughin', ye know, and, o' course, I dunnot set mich store by dreams; but still, it seemed to comfort me." She looked at me appealingly, and, being assured of my sympathy, continued "Well, last neet I were very lonesome when I geet into bed, an' I began o' thinkin' o' my mother, an' wonderin' where hoo was.
"Then," said I, "there's as good a man gone as ever lived on this earth, let who will be t' other!" And I came to see yo', and tell yo' how grieved I were, but them women in th' kitchen wouldn't tell yo' I were there. They said yo' were ill, and butter me, but yo' dunnot look like th' same wench. And yo're going to be a grand lady up i' Lunnon, aren't yo'?
Tummas leaned forward in his incredulous eagerness. "Does tha mean that they paid thee for writin' it paid thee?" "I guess they wouldn't have done it if they'd been Lancashire, "Tembarom answered." But they hadn't much more sense than I had. They paid me twenty-five dollars a week that's five pounds." "I dunnot believe thee," said Tummas, and leaned back on his pillow short of breath.
Sit down and let me snip off your hair, and let me see you sham decently in a widow's cap to-morrow, or I'll leave the house. Whatten's come over Miss Faith, as used to be as mim a lady as ever was, to be taken by such as you, I dunnot know. Here! sit down with ye, and let me crop you."
He began to walk towards the field-gate; this movement did catch her eye, for in a minute her hand was on his arm, and she was stooping forward to look into his face. It was working and twitching with emotion. 'Kester! oh, man! speak out, but dunnot leave me a this-ns. What could I ha' done?
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