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And taking his courage in both hands, he told everything without a break: how he had been 'feeart' of what Sandy might say to him 'at th' joodgment, how he had saved and lied, and how now he had seen David, had written to Mr. Gurney, and stopped the cheques for good and all. When he came to the letter to Mr. Gurney, Hannah sat suddenly upright in her chair, grasping one arm of it.
'I doan't know, said the boy, 'what soart o' tales? 'Why, they'd use to say th' witch walked, on soom neets i' th' year Easter Eve, most pertickerlerly an foak wor feeart to goo onywhere near it on those neets. But doan't yo goo listenin to tales, Davy, said Reuben, with a paternal effusion most rare with him, and born of his recent proceedings; 'yo'll only freeten yorsel o' neets for nothin.
'I'm feeart he'll not stay wi you. He's cleverer than I ever was, and I was the cleverest of us all. The words had in them a whole epic of human fate. Under the prick of them Reuben found a tongue, not now for his wife, but for himself. 'It's not cliverness as ull help yo now, Sandy, wi your Maaker! and yo feeace t' feeace wi 'un! he cried. 'It's nowt but satisfacshun by t' blood o' Jesus!
I can't keep him at home. And I'm not always dull like this. I've done my best to cheer him up. And I don't think there's much amiss with the Parlour yet only the outgoings are so large every day. I'm always feeart She paused, and a visible tremor ran through her.
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