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"Why, sir, I had to come to Brox'on to deliver some work, and I thought it but right to call and let you know the goins-on as there's been i' the village, such as I hanna seen i' my time, and I've lived in it man and boy sixty year come St. Thomas, and collected th' Easter dues for Mr.
I know what belongs to bein' a parish clerk, and I know as I should be wantin' i' respect to Your Reverence, an' church, an' king, if I was t' allow such goins-on wi'out speakin'. I was took by surprise, an' knowed nothin' on it beforehand, an' I was so flustered, I was clean as if I'd lost my tools.
He was never a great one for talking, wasn't Isaac; but you'd think now as he'd never learnt how. He'll set there in the club of a night and never open his mouth to nobody. 'Perhaps he's fretting about his wife, Watson? 'Well, I don't believe as he knows much about her goins-on not all, leastways.
Bless yer, I've been in at the "Spotted Deer" to-night, and there worn't nothin else talked of but yo and yor goins-on. There won't be a tongue in the place to-morrow that won't be a-waggin about yer yur a public charickter, yo are they'll be sendin the reporters down on yer for a hinterview. "Where the Devil do she get the money?" they says.
Liza Thomson, as is at Phipps's, said to me last Sunday, "I wonder you'll stay at Dempster's," she says, "such goins-on as there is." But I says, "There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change, an' change, an' not better yourself when all's said an' done." Lors! why, Liza told me herself as Mrs.
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