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Ed'ard, these be proper stockings, inna they? Edward glanced at them, and said indifferently that they were. As he did so, a line that had lately appeared on his forehead became very apparent. In her room upstairs, papered with buttercups and daisies by Edward himself, and scented by a bunch of roses he had given her, Hazel thought about Hunter's Spinney.
Now I ask you' he fixed his eyes on her with the expression of a fanatic 'I ask you, was there ever a beekeeper or a general or a sea-captain as was anything to boast of, being married? Never! Marriage kills the mind! Why's bees clever? Why's the skip allus full of honey at summer's end? Because they're all old maids! 'The queen inna. They all come from her.
The Rer Guleni in wrath, at once murdered Masud, a peaceful traveller, because Inna Handun, his Abban or protector, was of the party who had attacked their proteges: they came upon him suddenly as he was purchasing some article, and stabbed him in the back, before he could defend himself. In Zayla there is not a single coffee-house.
'I like this better'n that old dark place, green dress or no green dress, she thought, 'and I'll ne'er go back there. It inna true what he said, "Have her he will for certain sure," for I'm going to live along of Ed'ard, and the old sleepy lady'll learn me to make batter for ever and ever. Batter's a well-beaten mixture of eggs and summat. She fell asleep.
She wiped her tears away with her sleeve. 'It inna my fault. I'm allus hurting things. I canna set foot in the garden nor cook a cabbage but I kill a lot of little pretty flies and things. And when we take honey there's allus bees hurted. I'm bound to go agen you or Ed'ard, and I canna go agen Ed'ard; he sets store by me, does Ed'ard.
'Oh, are you going to a show, Mr. Woodus? she asked Abel. 'It would have been so nice and pleasant if you would have played your instrument. 'Yes, mum. That's what I've acome for. I inna going to no show. I've come to the wedding to get my belly-full. Mrs. Marston, very much flustered, asked what the animals were for. 'I think, mother, they're for you. Edward smiled.
'What? after the old 'un? 'I wunna stay along of him! Vessons looked at her interestedly. Apparently she also was a devotee of his religion celibacy; one who dared to go against the explicit decrees of nature. 'I think the better of you, he said. 'So he's had his trouble for nothing, he chuckled. 'You can have my room. You shanna say Andrew Vessons inna a man of charitable nature.
Abel roared. Then he fell to in earnest on the coffin, whistling like a blackbird. Hazel sat down and watched him, resting her cheek on her hand. The cold snowlight struck on her face wanly. 'Dunna you ever think, making coffins for poor souls to rest in as inna tired, as there's a tree growing somewhere for yours? she asked. 'Laws! What's took you? Measles? What for should I think of me coffin?
The longer the omen tarried, the more she wanted it to come. Then fatalism reasserted itself, and she relapsed into her usual state of mind. 'I dunna care, she said. 'It inna no use to tarry. They unna play. I'll bide along of Ed'ard at chapel on Sunday, and sing higher than last time. She turned home.
The Red Guard came there to search, destroying different documents; frequently objects which were found on the premises disappeared. The Yolya Naroda, referred to by Inna Rakitnikov, was the official organ of the Socialist-Revolutionary party. It was raided on several occasions.
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