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There's as good as I in the army, and even better. 'And they say that when you fall this summer, you'll die like a man. 'When I fall? 'Yes, sure, Maister Derriman. Poor soul o' thee! I shan't forget 'ee as you lie mouldering in yer soldier's grave. 'Hey? said the warrior uneasily. 'What makes 'em think I am going to fall? 'Well, sir, by all accounts the yeomanry will be put in front.

For by this time even the laggards were out and working for the credit of Troy. But no decorations could compare with their own. "Let me give 'ee a hand wi' that hammer," he offered; for her hand shook pitiably. "Ne'er a hand shall help me thank 'ee all the same," the old lady answered. "There, Cap'n! . . . there's for Queen Victoria! an' it's done, if I die to-morrow."

Maybe I ought to have warned 'ee that 'twas cooked by a person of weak intellect." "Don't mention it," said Captain Cai politely. "What the eye don't see the heart don't grieve, as they say; an' the jint was boiled to a turn. . . . I was only wonderin' how you picked up such a maid!" The chandler struck again upon the small hand-bell. "I got her from a bad debt."

"But there was a trick I minded in the way she worked her mouth, an' says I, 'Missus Polwarne, your husband's a-waitin' for 'ee, round by the front door. "'Aw, is he indeed? she answers, holdin' her needle for a moment an' her voice was all hollow, like as if she pumped it up from a fathom or two.

Bluenose was a man of peculiar and decided character. He did not at all relish his position in the drawing-room when he thought of his sister Mrs Laker supping in the kitchen. Being an impulsive man, he seized his cap, and said abruptly to his hostess: "I'll tell 'ee wot it is, marm, I aint used to this 'ere sort o' thing.

He was a man of middle height, but of extremely powerful frame, and was habited in the garb of a fisherman. "Truly I had been gone altogether but for your timely assistance; may God reward you for it!" said Oliver earnestly. "Well, I don't think you would be so ready to thank me if you did knaw I had half made up my mind to lev 'ee go."

"I'll lay a fi'-pound note to a shilling on the old un," a miner said. "I'll take 'ee," Bill Haden answered. "It hain't a great risk to run, and Jack is as game as Flora." Several other bets were made at similar odds, the lads, although they deemed the conflict hopeless, yet supporting their champion.

Even Jabez unbent, and was not always suspecting her of some mischief or other. "What part of the county do 'ee come from, miss?" he asked when first he was introduced. "I am afraid I don't belong to this county at all," said Pamela apologetically. "I am not a Cornishwoman." Jabez looked disappointed, but he tried his best not to make her feel her sad position more than she could help.

"Thank 'ee, Velveteens; I'm very comfortable," said Tom, shortening the rod in his hand, and preparing for battle. "Werry well; please yourself," says the keeper, descending, however, to the ground again, and taking his seat on the bank. "I bean't in no hurry, so you may take your time. I'll l'arn 'ee to gee honest folk names afore I've done with 'ee."

The murmur of voices, too, which the woman overheard, betokened a close conversation, in which the familiar drawl of the windmiller's dialect blended audibly with that kind of clean-clipt speaking peculiar to gentlefolk. "He've been talking to master's five minute an' more," muttered the miller's wife. "What can 'ee want with un?"