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'I wos jus' havin' a glass to celebrate a joyful day. 'Cannot you take your glass without becoming intoxicated? said Cargrim, in disgust. 'I tell you what, Mosk, if you go on in this way, I shall make it my business to warn Sir Harry Brace against you. 'I told you how t'would be, father, put in Bell, reproachfully. 'You onnatural child, goin' agin your parent, growled Mr Mosk.
"T'would do Mandy a sight o' good. Come down and stop to supper. You ain't took a meal o' victuals with us I don't know when." Melody promised to come soon, and took her way up the grassy path, while the countryman gazed after her with a look of wondering admiration. "That child knows more than most folks that hev their sight!" he soliloquized. "What's she doin' now?
"A can of good grog, had they swigg'd it, T'would have set them for pleasure agog, And in spite of the rules Of the schools, The old fools Would have all of them swigg'd it, And swore there was nothing like grog." "I'm exactly of your opinion, father," said Tom, holding out his empty pannikin. "Always ready for two things, Master Tom grog and mischief; but, however, you shall have one more dose."
They were driving now along a rough road across the moor itself; the 'pill-box' had outstripped them and was out of sight. "Let's drive on the grass," said Paul suddenly, "t'would be ever so much jollier than jolting along like this. Why don't you drive across there to the farm," pointing to a stretch of smooth, green turf, "instead of going all around by this road?" The boy laughed again.
"Can't you get a bit of string and tie up the surcingle Tommy?" suggested Christian, who was now too well used to these crises in the affairs of the stable to be much moved by them. "Sure, I'm after doing it, Miss. T'would make a cat laugh the ways I have on it! She's a holy fright altogether with the mane and the tail she have on her!
Bender, how does a chap feel when he's in love?" "Very foolish, judging from yourself," returned William; and Henry replied, "I hope you mean nothing personal, for I'm bound to avenge my honor, and t'would be a deuced scrape for you and me to fight about 'your sister, as you call her, for 'tis she who has inspired me, or made a fool of me, one or the other."
"Treason or not, I vow that if my coach were more handy it would help us vastly. Carrying the girl a few yards were an easy matter and a squeal or two of no consequence, but five hundred yards pest take it." "S'blood, sir, she's no great weight and with so precious a burden in your arms 't'would be but a whet to appetite. Still, if you're unequal to the task, pray command me.
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