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It's no longer agone than last night, after tay, I laid me down on the floor beside the fire in sitch a state o' moloncholly weakness, that I really tried to die. It's true for ye; and I belave I'd have done it, too, av I hadn't wint off to slape by mistake, an' whin I awoke, I was so cowld and hungry that I thought I'd pusspone dyin' till after supper.
"That's raither sharp work, ain't it, Reuben?" said Jacob, with a critical wrinkle of his eyebrows, and a remonstrative tone in his voice. "I ain't much of an authority on sitch matters, but it do seem to me as if you might have given the poor gal a day or two to make sure whether her head or heels was uppermost."
Remarkable often found occasions, in after days, to recount the minutiae of that celebrated operation; and when she arrived at this point she commonly proceeded as follows: And then the doctor tuck out of the pocket book a long thing, like a knitting-needle, with a button fastened to the end on't; and then he pushed it into the wound and then the young man looked awful; and then I thought I should have swaned away I felt in sitch a disput taking; and then the doctor had run it right through his shoulder, and shoved the bullet out on tother side; and so Dr.
"On'y think!" he said, quoting Mrs Willis's words, in a scarcely audible whisper, "`so gentle, an' lovin', an' tender, an' true, an' kind' an' sitch a good boy too an' my kindly ways is like his, are they? Well, well, Mrs W, it's quite clear that a loo-natic asylum must be your native 'ome arter this." "What are you muttering about, Robin?" "Nuffin' partikler, granny.
Oh, my poor eye! it's like a coal of fire but sure it was worth the risk living with her for the sake of the purty property. And sure I was thinkin' what a pleasure it would be living with you, and tachin' your wife housekeepin', and bringing up the young turkeys and the childhre but, och hone, you'll never do a bit o' good, you that got sitch careful bringin' up, Andy Rooney!
But, you know, wot's a cove to do ven a hangel comes to him and axes sitch rum questions?" Again he laughed, and again stopped short in pain. "I'm so sorry! Does it feel very painful? You can't think how constantly I've been thinking of you since the accident; for it was all my fault. If I hadn't jumped up in such a passion, the pony wouldn't have run away, and you wouldn't have been hurt.
"I'm in a bad way, Cuff," he said, after satisfying the first cravings of hunger. Cuffy gave a responsive wag with his tail, and cocked his ears for more. "Hows'ever, seems to me that I've got the turn; let's be thankful for that, my doggie. Wonder how long I've bin ill. Months mayhap. Don't think I could have come to be sitch a skeleton in a short time.
Sometimes her mother brings her to the hospital to let her see how they manage, but I fancy she thinks her too young yet to go in for sitch work by hersilf. Anyhow I've seen her only now an' then; but the poor widdy comes rig'lar though I do belave she does it widout pay. The husband died of a flyer caught in the hospital a good while since.
That is, I first havin and holdin the wherewithalls, and the whys, and the wherefores. Do you take me now? So that forsooth, some folks may behappen to cry peccavi. Whereby mind what I do tell ee. For why? I've as good as a told Sir Arthur the wind is a not to be raised for any of a sitch of a flammbite of a tale of a tub. Whereby I a told'n a bit of my mind.
Never judge men by their looks," returned Bevan "specially in the diggin's. They're all blackguards or fools, more or less. This one seems to be one o' the fools. I've seed sitch critters before. They keep fillin' their little boxes wi' grass an' stuff; an' never makes any use of it that I could see. But every man to his taste.
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