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'E was a reg'ler devil, 'e was; and they do zay as 'ow 'e be about 'ere even now, although 'e baint been 'eard of for zum taime. And more; they zay that zumwheres near this vury plaace 'o 'as buried tons of goold and silver, precious stones, and all kinds of vallybles; but 'ow far that be true I doen't knaw.
"He shall go to a good school, Chris." She sighed. "I wish I could die quick here by the roadside, dear Martin, for living along with you won't be no happier than I am this moment. My thoughts do all run back, not forward. I've lived long enough, I reckon. If I'd told 'e! But I'd rather been skinned alive than do it. I'd have let the rest knaw years agone but for you."
'T was my fault for not remindin' you. An' yet I did, now an' again, but you wouldn't see it. Yet you knawed in your heart, an' I didn't like to pain 'e dwellin' on it overmuch." "How did I knaw? I didn't knaw nothin' 't all 'bout it. How should I? Me grawin' aulder an' aulder, an' leanin' more an' more 'pon 'e at every turn. An' him no friend to me he 's never sought to win me he 's "
Then, with this trifling advantage, he retreated, while Lamacraft and Ted brought up the rear. "So theer's an end of that. Now us'll fall to wi' no worse appetites," declared Miller. "An' as to Will," he added, "'fore you chaps go, just mind an' judge no man till you knaw what's proved against him. Onless theer's worse behind than I've larned so far, I'm gwaine to stand by un."
She was excited t' other day an' not mistress of herself ezacally; an' the crafty twoad took advantage of it, an' jawed, an' made her drink an' drink till her didn't knaw what her was sayin' or doin'. But she'm mine, an' she'll tell 'e same as what I do; so theer's an end on 't." "I'll see Mrs. Coomstock," said the Vicar. "I, myself will visit her to-morrow."
An' afore the day comes, you nip off to Newton, an' I'll meet 'e, an' us'll be married in a wink, an' you'll be back home again to Monks Barton 'fore you knaw it." "Is that the awnly way? Oh, Will, how terrible!" "God knaws I've done worse 'n that. But no man's gwaine to steal the maid of my choosin' from me while I've got brains and body to prevent it."
The servant-girl opened the door they rushed into the house, and to the side of the bed where he slept. They grasped him by the shoulder, and exclaimed "You are our prisoner." "Your prisoner!" replied Harry; "for what, neighbours?" "Weel dow ye knaw for what," was the answer. Harry sprang upon the floor, and, in the excitement of the moment, he raised his hand to strike the officers of the law.
"Hey, my lads, I mean to go on; I'm noan going to turn back naa; it's heaven I set aat for, and heaven I mean. I've been on th' road aboon fifty years, and I'st get t' th' end afore lang." And then he went on to say how glad he was to see them there once more, and to see the place full of earnest worshippers. "You knaw it warn't always soa.
Greatorex looked up, showing a shamefaced smile. The little lass had beaten him. "Coom to think of it, I doan' knaw as he would like it mooch." "Of course he wouldn't like it. It would be wasting what he'd done." "So 't would. I naver thought of it like thot." She rose. She knew the moment of surrender, and she knew, woman-like, that it must not be overpassed.
You knaw that as well as my tongue and heart can tell 'ee. Look at me ... don't 'ee knaw it, Phoebe? Don't 'ee?" She turned her head this way and that to avoid his insistence, but at last she yielded as on that night long ago beside the stile and met look and lips.
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