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I most humbelly beseche your Honner to be good and kinde and fethful to my deerest younge lady, now you have her; or I shall brake my harte for having done some dedes that have helped to bringe things to this passe. Pray youre dere, good Honner, be just! Prayey do! As God shall love ye! prayey do! I cannot write no more for this pressent, for verry fear and grief
I wil do my best I am able, since your Honner will be apt to lose her, as your Honner says, if I do not; and a man so stingie will be apt to gain her. But mayhap my deareste young lady will not make all this trubble needful. If she has promissed, she will stand to it, I dare to say. I love your Honner for contriveing to save mischiff so well.
But I'd have no objecshun if yer honner wud make it mucho bettero. Couldn't ye just take a little turn aff me wrist here? it cuts like a rayzyer." I could not restrain myself from laughing, in which Clayley and Raoul joined me; and we formed a chorus that seemed to astonish our captors. Lincoln alone preserved his sullenness. He had not spoken a word.
I thought till I know'd your Honner, that you was verry mischevous, and plese your Honner: but find it to be clene contrary. Your Honner, it is plane, means mighty well by every body, as far as I see. As I am sure I do myself; for I am, althoff a very plane man, and all that, a very honnest one, I thank my God.
We common fokes have our joys, and plese your Honner, lick as our betters have; and if we be sometimes snubbed, we can find our underlings to snub them agen; and if not, we can get a wife mayhap, and snub her: so are masters some how or other oursells. But how I try your Honner's patience! Sarvants will shew their joyful hartes, tho' off but in partinens, when encourag'd.
If there should be danger of your Honner's life, I hope your Honner will not be hanged like as one of us common men; only have your hedd cut off, or so: and yet it is pit such a hedd should be lossed: but if as how it should be prossekutid to that furr, which God forbid, be plesed natheless to thinck of youre fethful Joseph Leman, before your hedd be condemned; for after condemnation, as I have been told, all will be the king's or the shreeve's.
But natheless I am in hope of reppentence hereafter, being but a younge man, if I do wrong thro' ignorens: your Honner being a grate man, and a grave wit; and I a poor crature, not worthy notice; and your Honner able to answer for all. But, howsomever, I am Your Honner's fetheful sarvant in all dewtie, JOSEPH LEMAN. You have a worse opinion of your invention than you ought to have.
And what's this?" continued he, turning to Chane and examining his shoulders. "Bah! soldado raso Irlandes, carajo!" There, renegade!" and he kicked the Irishman in the ribs. "Thank yer honner!" said Chane, with a grunt, "small fayvours thankfully received; much good may it do yer honner!" "Here, Lopez!" shouted the brigand. "Now for the fire!" thought we.
And yet I have not sed all I would say. For, be it knone unto your Honner, as how I do not like that Captain Singleton, which I told you of in my last two letters. He is always laying his hedd and my young master's hedd together; and I suspect much if so be some mischief is not going on between them: and still the more, as because my eldest younge lady seemes to be joined to them sometimes.
So likewise, if one knoed one could honnestly, as your Honner says, and as of the handy-work of God, in one twelvemonth But, I shall grow impertinent to such a grate man. And hereafter may do for that, as she turnes out: for one mought be loth to part with her, mayhap, so verry soon too; espessially if she was to make the notable landlady your Honner put into my head.
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