United States or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
At the edge of the hamlet, he found a cottage with no light in it; he dismounted and thundered at the door: "Escape for your lives! for your lives!" A man called Hillsbro' Harry opened the window. "The embankrncnt is going. Fly for your lives!" "Nay," said the man, coolly, "Ouseley dam will brust noane this week," and turned to go to bed again. He found Joseph Galton and another man carrying Mrs.
A razor-grinder showed him his shirt: it was a deep buff-color. "There, sir," said he, "that was clean on yesterday. All the washerwomen in Hillsbro' can't make a shirt of mine any other color but that."
But there's plenty of outside trades in Hillsbro'. We'll bind him to one of those, and keep an eye on him, for thy sake." "Well, I must take what I can get." "And little enough too," said Eliza Watney. "Now do you know that they have set upon Mr. Little and beaten him within an inch of his life? Oh, Ned, you can't approve that, and him our best friend." "Who says I approve it, thou fool?"
Yet, when Holdfast had done, Simmons was observed to look at Grotait, though he replied to the other. "If you was a Hillsbro' man, you'd know we tell on dead folk, but not on quick. I told on Ned Simmons, because he was as good as dead; but to tell on Trade, that's different."
Reynolds did not reply to him, nor to Mr. Cheetham: he turned to the men. "Mates, I'm noane good at lying. Hand that forged these has naught to learn in Hillsbro', nor any other shop." "Thank you, Mr. Reynolds," said Henry, in a choking voice. "That is the first gleam of justice that I " He could say no more. "Come, don't you turn soft for a word or two," said Cheetham.
Four corpses and two dead horses were lying in a lake of mud about the very door of the railway station; three of them were females in absolute nudity. The fourth was a male, with one stocking on. This proved to be Hillsbro' Harry, warned in vain up at Damflask.
There's the stuff in Hillsbro and the men that have done others so, and will do her job as wells thine. Powders a good servant but a bad master. At this diabolical threat, young Little leaned sick and broken over the handle of his bellows. Then he got up, and went to Mr. Cheetham, and said, patiently, "Sir, I am sorry to say I must leave you this very day."
In about an hour go on the new bridge, and I'll come to you; and, before I've come to you many minutes, you'll see summut and hear summut that will make a noise in Hillsbro', and, perhaps, get us both into trouble." "Not if you are as dexterous as others have been." "Others! I was in all those jobs. But this is the queerest. I go to it as if I was going to a halter.
We sarched him from head to foot, and found no eend o' tools in his pockets. He is a deep 'un. But we are Yorkshire too, as the saying is. He goes to Hillsbro' town-hall to-morrow; and glad to be shut on him." Coventry complimented him, and agreed with him that escape was impossible. He then got a light, and went to his own bedroom, and sat down, cold at heart, before the fire.
Word Of The Day