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What need you frighten a poor girl that is no schollard, bating what she learned at the Charity School of Saint Bees? 'Is Saint Bees far from this place, Dorcas? Do you send your letters there? said I, in a manner as insinuating, and yet careless, as I could assume. 'Saint Bees!
In rummaging for the instrument his eye fell upon a bundle of manuscripts; and he suddenly recollected that when he was a mere child, and before he much knew the difference between verse and prose, his mother had pointed to these manuscripts, and said, "One day or other, when you can read nicely, I'll let you look at these, Lenny. My poor Mark wrote such verses ah, he was a schollard!"
I never take a pen in my 'and oftener nor twice a year. I aint a schollard, sir." "That don't matter," was the reply; "you use your needle a good deal." "Of course, and why shouldn't I?" "How many hours a day do you work?" "I never count the hours, sir. I work all the time that I've got. The more I work, the more money there be, you understand." "Yes, I quite understand.
I have been requested to tell my story in my own langwidge, though, being no schollard, mind cannot conceive. I think my master is a brute. Do not know that he has ever attempted to poison my missus, which is too good for him, and how she ever came to marry him, heart only can tell, but believe him to be capable of any such hatrosity.
And I want to go to school I want to go to school!" "That's a queer wanting," said the other thoughtfully. "I've wanted fire when I was cold, and venison when I was hungry, and liquor when I was in company, and money when I was gaming, and a woman when the moon was shining and I wished to talk, but I have never wanted to go to school. A schollard sees a wall every time he raises his head.
In rummaging for the instrument his eye fell upon a bundle of manuscripts; and he suddenly recollected that when he was a mere child, and before he much knew the difference between verse and prose, his mother had pointed to these manuscripts, and said, "One day or other, when you can read nicely, I'll let you look at these, Lenny. My poor Mark wrote such verses ah, he was a schollard!"
"That's not exactly what the schoolmistress would have said. You don't read nor write, Mrs. Fairfield; yet you express yourself with great propriety." "You know Mark was a schollard, sir, like my poor, poor sister; and though I was a sad stupid girl afore I married, I tried to take after him when we came together."
Dale said, almost sternly, "Your parents are old, your father infirm; their least wish should be as binding to you as their command," the widow bowed her head, and said, "God bless them, sir, I was very sinful 'Honour your father and mother. I'm no schollard, but I know the Commandments. Let Lenny go. But he'll soon forget me, and mayhap he'll learn to be ashamed of me."
"Ah no, your honour!" he briskly replied; "indade she would approve it. If you won't discover on me, I'll tell you the truth. It was the wife herself, she's a great schollard, and reads the papers, that tould me not to pay you more than half the rent for she says there's a new Act coming to wipe it all out. Will you take the half-year?" "No, I will not.
But I thinks what I thinks all the same; and indeed, it is a thing that puzzles me, how that strange-looking vagabond, as frighted the ladies so, and who, Miss Nelly told me, for she saw them in his pocket, carried pistols about him, as if he had been among cannibals and hottentots, instead of the peaceablest county that man ever set foot in, should boast of his friendship with this larned schollard, and pass a whole night in his house.
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