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Minute recurrent sounds prevailed the click of the smoke-jack, the flap of the flames, and the light touches of the women's slippers upon the stone floor. The coachman hemmed, spread his feet more firmly upon the hearthstone, and looked hard at a small plate in the extreme corner of the dresser. 'No wedden this mornen that's my opinion.
"No," breathed Esther dolefully. "But I shall take it out myself soon." "In this world," said the rubicund man, shaking his head sceptically, "there ain't never no knowing. Well, how much d'yer want?" "I only want a shilling," said Esther, "and threepence," she added as a happy thought. "All right," said the rubicund man softened. "I won't 'aggle this mornen. You look quite knocked up.
'They are to be divided, the man said. 'How? said Manston. 'These, for the village, to be carried on into it: any for the vicarage or vicarage farm must be left in the box of the gate-post just here. There's none for the vicarage-house this mornen, but I saw when I started there was one for the clerk o' works at the new church. This is it, isn't it?
'A tryen mornen for travellers! the postman cried, in a cheerful voice, without turning his head or slackening his trot. 'It is, indeed, said Manston, stepping out abreast of him. 'You have a long walk every day.
For daughters ha' mornen when mothers ha' night, An' there's beauty alive when the fairest is dead; As when one sparklen wave do zink down from the light, Another do come up an' catch it instead.
Did you ever know him to give up for weather of any kind, or for any other mortal thing in heaven or earth? Mornen so's such as it is! interrupted Mr. Crickett cheerily, coming forward to the blaze and warming one hand without looking at the fire. 'Mr. Manston gie up for anything in heaven or earth, did you say?
She's got a very quick temper; she flees in a passion with them for nothing at all; next mornen they come up and say they are going; she's sorry for it and wishes they'd stay, but she's as proud as a lucifer, and her pride won't let her say, "Stay," and away they go. 'Tis like this in fact. If you say to her about anybody, "Ah, poor thing!" she says, "Pooh! indeed!" If you say, "Pooh, indeed!"
The best coat itself had long since been sold to a ragman, for Solomon, upon whose back it devolved, when Benjamin was so happily translated, could never be got to keep a best coat longer than a year, and when a best coat is degraded to every-day wear its attrition is much more than six times as rapid. "Good mornen, my little dear," said the rubicund man. "You're early this mornen."
As a suggestion of the language of that day, we quote a few familiar sentences from the Sermon on the Mount, as given in the later version of Wyclif's Gospel: And he openyde his mouth, and taughte hem, and seide, Blessid ben pore men in spirit, for the kyngdom of hevenes is herne. Blessid ben mylde men, for thei schulen welde the erthe. Blessid ben thei that mornen, for thei schulen be coumfortid.
Bein' a high and mighty man in committees up dah in Sacramento, sah, I didn't know but what yo' might know as it might come befo' yo'." "I'll see about it," said Paul, with an odd, abstracted smile. "Shampoo dis mornen', sah?" "Nothing more in this line," said Paul, rising from his chair, "but something more, perhaps, in the line of your other duties.
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