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Then meditating another moment or two she went to the door, softly closed it as before, and again descended the stairs. "Here she is!" said one of the workmen. "We wondered if you were coming after all. Come along; we must be quick to get a good place... Well, how is he? Sleeping well still? Of course, we don't want to drag 'ee away if " "Oh yes sleeping quite sound.
"Then the farmer says: `Tom, I believe 'ee; I've know'd 'ee thirty year, and never know'd 'ee tell a lie, and I believe 'ee now. But if thou knows her name, tell it us, and if thou doesn't know, tell us what she looked like, and maybe some of us 'll guess her. "But still I didn't say aught till Master Martin goes on: "`Out with her name.
Then there was Jago the Preventive man, light but wiry, and a very tricky wrestler: "a proper angle-twitch of a man," said one of the company; "stank 'pon both ends of 'en, and he'll rise up in the middle and laugh at 'ee." So they picked Jago for boat-oar.
'Yes; she said she felt her feet a-gettin cold and I must run. But I don't believe she's no worse. John stood looking down, ruefully. Suddenly the figure in the bed turned. 'John, said a comparatively strong voice which made Bolderfield start, 'John Muster Drew says you'd oughter put it in the bank. You'll be a fool if yer don't, 'ee says.
But 'ee says you allus were a mean one with your money an you knew that 'ee knew it for 'ee 'd stopped you takin an unfair advantage more nor once. An 'ee didn't believe as your money would come to any good; for now Eliza was gone you wouldn't know how to take care on it. John's eyes flamed. 'Oh! 'ee says that, do 'ee? Well Saunders wor allus a beast an a beast 'ee'll be.
I myzell been o' that zort one taime every bit so well as you be. And Betty held the lanthorn up, and defied me to deny it; and the light through the horn showed a gleam in her eyes, such as I had never seer there before. 'No odds, no odds about that, she continued; 'mak a fool of myzell to spake of it. Arl gone into churchyard. But it be a lucky foolery for thee, my boy, I can tull 'ee.
"Have 'ee found her, missie?" she asked, taking no further notice of Ephraim. "No," said Esther anxiously, "she isn't in the house, I'm sure." Anna always grew cross when she was frightened. "Here," she cried, turning sharply on Ephraim, "never mind your old turnip-bed.
'So he will forgive 'ee, since 'twas no manner of wrong to him. He ought to have sent 'ee a line, saying 'twas another man. Selina's mother entered. 'We've not known of this an hour, Mrs. Stone, she said. 'The letter was brought up from Lower Mellstock Post-office by one of the school children, only this afternoon. Mr. Miller was coming here this very night to settle about the wedding doings.
"No, lady," said Lutey thoughtfully, "I don't know that I'm so set on getting gold, but I'll tell 'ee what I should like. I'd dearly love to be able to remove the spells of the witches, to have power over the spirits to make them tell me all I want to know, and I'd like to be able to cure diseases."
He was a hale, well-conditioned man of about five and fifty, of the complexion common to those whose lives are passed on the bluffs and beaches of an ocean isle. He extended the four quarters of his face in a genial smile, and his hand for a grasp of the same magnitude. She gave her own in surprised docility, and he continued: 'I couldn't help coming across to meet 'ee.
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