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She was up and away like a blue flash. "Now ain't she likely?" quavered old Judge Middleton. "There ain't many pretty gals like her'd stop an' gossip with a bilin' of ol' has-beens like us." "Yes, that's the truth," said Colonel Crutcher. "Did you see Bob Bucknor's oldest girl going by in her father's car while Miss Judy was cheering us up?
I was er curious about the face I saw, or thought I saw, last night, and looked into the room through the same window. By doing so I scared Mrs. Bates, who was clearing the table, and she screamed " "Her would, too," put in Bates. "Her'd take 'ee for Owd Ben's ghost." "You shut up, Bates," said the policeman. "Don't interrupt Mr. Grant."
"But he can't have his mother," said Helen. "She's at Nottingham. He told me so himself. He must be delirious." And she laughed. "No, her isn't," James put in. "How do you know, uncle?" "I know," said James. "Her'd better be sent for." And she was sent for. When Mrs.
There were many country fellows with their maids in the crowd, that turned their heads at this address; and as usual the women began. "Tis Joan o' the Tor!" "Joan's picked up wi' a sweetheart tee-hee! an' us reckoned her'd forsworn mankind!" "Who is he?" "Some furriner, sure: that likes garlic." "He's bought her no ribbons yet."
Tucker as, primed with questions to ask Joan and messages to give to Eve, she securely fastened the doors preparatory to her departure. "If I was to tell up such talk to Eve her'd be piping off here next minit or else sendin' back a pack o' silly speeches that 'ud make Adam mazed to go to she. 'Tis wonderful how took up he is with a maid he knows so little of. But there!
In the course of a two-three weeks she left the parish, and I made up my mind as her'd left despising me. I won't pretend as I might not ha' found her letter if her had been less prideful and disdainous, for in the course of a little while I might ha' gone back to the music if things had gone happier with me. But it would ha' been kinder not to know the truth at all than find it out so late."
These things she made him drink and eat, and she spoke to the old man while he did so, larding the discussion of necessary details with expressions of hope for the dead. "Be strong, an' faace it, uncle. God knaws best. I lay the poor lovey was took from gert evil to come. You knaw so well as me. You can guess wheer her'd be now if livin'. She'm in a better home than that.
"Then no doubt those two visits to Manchester, afterwards " "Exactly," said Si. "Th' company went to Manchester and stopped there a fortnight. I told her fair and square what I meant and what I was worth. There was no beating about the bush wi' me. All her friends told her she'd be a fool if she wouldn't have me. She said her'd write me yes or no. Her didn't.
Her'd ha' gone in fear of her life if her'd ha' guessed he knowed it. And now my income's cut down to half, and all because of this here weddin' o' thine." "I don't see how," said Reuben. "Why thus," said Snac, with a somewhat rueful grin.
She hovered round him like a hen, indeed like a whole flock of hens, and when he savagely rebuffed her she developed from a flock of hens into a flight of angels. "Missis said as I was to tell you as she'd gone to see Mr. Julian Maldon, sir," said Mrs. Tams, in the way of general gossip. Louis made no sign. "Her didna say how soon her'd be back.