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She'll ta'ak she to her mother's at Chorlton, and if ye keep along the straight road for Grantley till ye come to sign-po'ast, sayun' 'To Dessington and Chorlton, then another three-qua'arters of an 'oor 'll ta'ak ye there, easy." The dutiful son looked disappointed, but did not lose his equable and not unpleasant manner. "I thought I was nigher my journey's end than that, marm," said he.
"So I kep' awake, sayun an' singun, an' it was n' very cold; an' so, first thing I knowed, I started, an' there I was lyun in a heap; an' I must have been asleep, an' did n' know how 't was, nor how long I'd a-been so: an' some sort o' baste started away, an' 'e must have waked me up; I could n' rightly see what 't was, wi' sleepiness: an' then I hard a sound, sounded like breakers; an' that waked me fairly.
The young woman looked up, this time; and the cold snow-blast seemed to howl through that still summer's noon, and the terrific ice-fields and hills to be crashing against the solid earth that we sat upon, and all things round changed to the far-off stormy ocean and boundless frozen wastes. The planter began to speak again: "So I falled right down upon th' ice, sayun, 'Lard, help me!
"Truly the fault be none of his. But thou doesna knaw Ste'aphen Solmes as I do. He'll be for sayun' if that g'woon had a been unlwoaded, Master Torrens had gone his way, and no harm done, nouther to him nor yet to Gwen. But who can say for certain that 'tis not God's will all along?" Mrs. Lamprey interrupted.
I would not have been happy to wed with a blind husband. Nor yourself, Cousin Keziah!" Said Mrs. Keziah: "I'm a-looking forward to the telling of my good man. But I lay he'll be for sayun' next, that he'll be all to blame if the wedding turn out ill." "How can ye put that down to him, to lay it at his door? The fault is none of his, Cousin Keziah." Thus Widow Thrale.
"Well, not that I seen or hearn. But some o' them that was standun' nigh him was talkun' about it when we all got out, and they was sayun' he said, 'Go with your earthly father; your heavenly father will keep you safe! I don't know whether he did or not; but that's what they was sayun." "And did Gillespie say anything back?" "Not't anybody heared.
On the way back he wouldn't talk at all, hardly, but just kep' sayun', 'The perfect work is done, and he didn't give his shout any more; just snorted." Braile's pipe had gone out, but he pulled at it two or three times, before he said, "Well, Abel, I don't wonder Sally is excited. I suppose you would be, if you believed a word of this yarn?"
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