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There is no disguising it, however much the admission may damage him in the eyes of that same orthodox sentimentalist. Among other rehabilitations and whitewashings, that of the cruel father might well be undertaken by an ingenious writer; if Nero had had a grown-up daughter there would have been the chance! Anyhow the attempt would have met with some sympathy from Iver.
"You'd be doing the same, Tim, if yees had iver laid eyes on Miss Cora or had iver heard her speak," said Teddy, as his eyes filled with tears. "God bliss her! she was worth a thousand such lives as mine " "Don't say nothin'" interrupted the trapper, endeavoring to conceal his agitation; "I've l'arned years ago what that business is.
"I watched him, and I saw that he had something to say, and yet wouldn't say it. I saw he was struggling. And I watched, how I watched! He was engaged to Janie Iver he had told me that. But he didn't love her yes, he told me that too. But there was something else. I saw it. I had come to love him then already oh, I think as soon as I saw him at Blent. And I waited for it.
"'I reckon he'll noan mend his ways, said Mike, 'now he's close on eighty. So I said if that were the case it would be a good thing for the peace o' the family when he were putten under grund. Yon were gaumless words, and bitter did I rue iver having spokken 'em. But Mike nobbut laughed at what I said. "'Putten under grund! said he.
"That's true that's Testymen true!" And the individual addressed as Mrs. Twitt, heaved a profound sigh which was loud enough to flutter through the open door to Helmsley's ears "Which, as I sez to Twitt often, shows as 'ow we shouldn't iver tempt Providence.
'It wor an aunt o' hers, soa I understan quite a good bit o' money. 'Did yer iver hear the name? said John, eagerly. 'Some one livin at Bedford, I did 'ear say. John laughed, not without good-humoured relief. It would have touched his vanity had his niece been discovered to be richer than himself. 'Oh, that's old Sophy Clarke, he said.
There's a Sahib come to call on me, an' that's more than he'll iver do for you onless you run! Get out, an' go on pilin' up the earth, quick, till sundown."
"Tak' care, dad! I'll stan' but little more," the boy warned him in choking voice; and began to trim the lamp with trembling fingers. M'Adam forthwith addressed himself to Red Wull. "I suppose no man iver had sic a son as him, Wullie. Ye ken what I've done for him, an' ye ken hoo he's repaid it.
"I'll go in ter town termorrer," she thought, "an' have a crack wi' Jimmy Gedge; ee needn't be afeard for 'is livin'. An' them great fules as ha' bin runnin' in a string arter 'er, an' cacklin' about their eighteen-pence a score, as I've told 'em times, I'll eat my apron the fust week as iver they get it.
'You niver spoke a truer word than that, my dear, said Mrs. Linnet, who accepted all religious phrases, but was extremely rationalistic in her interpretation; 'for if iver Old Harry appeared in a human form, it's that Dempster. It was all through him as we got cheated out o' Pye's Croft, making out as the title wasn't good. Such lawyer's villany!
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