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"Well, don't get too close," said Twitt, kindly "We'll be havin' ye washed away if ye don't take care! There's onny an hour to tea-time, an' Mary Deane's a punctooal 'ooman!" "I shall not keep her waiting never fear!" and Helmsley smiled as he said good-day, and jogged slowly along his favourite accustomed path to the beach.
But when t' awed lass took to givin' me money an' I seed 'at she were gettin' fair fond about t' dog, I began to suspicion summat. Onny body may give a soldier t' price of a pint in a friendly way an' theer's no 'arm done, but when it cooms to five rupees slipt into your hand, sly like, why, it's what t' 'lectioneerin' fellows calls bribery an' corruption. Specially when Mrs.
'A widder, I think? said Stephen. 'Oh, many long years! Mrs. Pegler's calculation, when Stephen was born. ''Twere a bad job, too, to lose so good a one, said Stephen. 'Onny children? Mrs. Pegler's cup, rattling against her saucer as she held it, denoted some nervousness on her part. 'No, she said. 'Not now, not now. 'Dead, Stephen, Rachael softly hinted.
An' they took the gel away with 'em a purty little slip of about fifteen then, with great big eyes and a lot of bright 'air; don't none of ye remember 'er?" Mr. Buggins shook his head. "'Twas afore my time," he said. "I ain't had the 'Mother Huff' more'n eight years." "I seed 'er once," said Bainton "but onny once that was when I was workin' for the Squire as extra 'and.
"Onny to tell him what brother Jem is gone to Pendle fo to-neet," replied the little girl, with a significant and malicious look at Mistress Nutter. "Ha!" muttered the lady. "There is more malice in this little wasp than I thought. But I must rob it of its sting." And while thus communing with herself, she fixed a searching look on Jennet, and then raising her hand quickly, waved it in her face.
It strengthens the wind, and adds to a horse's power of endurance. You understand?" "Parfitly, squoire," replied the groom. "By th' mess! that's a secret worth knoain'. Onny more orders?" "No," replied Nicholas. "We shall set out in an hour or it may be sooner." "Aw shan be ready," said Peter.
"I dawn't want onny helpin' out," replied the pirate. "It's loike this 'ere, ma'aster," he continued, turning again to Colwyn. "Arter Dick and I left the Anchor las' night, we thowt we'd be walkin' a spell.
"An yo'n be aw reet, sir," replied the huntsman; "we'n beat the bonks weel, an two o' these chaps shan go up the stream, an two down, one o' one side, and one o' t'other; an i' that manner hoo canna escape us, fo' Grip can swim an dive os weel as onny otter i' aw Englondshiar, an he'n be efter her an her litter the moment they tak to t' wotur.
'Though as to master, said he, glancing again at Rachael, 'not master onny more. That's aw enden 'twixt him and me. 'Have you left his work, Stephen? asked Rachael, anxiously and quickly. 'Why, Rachael, he replied, 'whether I ha lef'n his work, or whether his work ha lef'n me, cooms t' th' same. His work and me are parted. 'Tis as weel so better, I were thinkin when yo coom up wi' me.
Ey shall be feared at onny rate ay, feared, wenches, by ye both." "Nah doubt on't, theaw little good-fo'-nothin piece o' mischief," muttered Susan.
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