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'Yis, mum, said the old man placidly, 'ya might 'a' thowt it. I's reet sorry, bit ya caan't help these things sumtimes an' it's naw gud, a hollerin' ower 'em like a mad bull. Aa tuke yur bit paper to Randall's and aa laft it wi' 'em to mek up, an' than, aa, weel, aa went to a frind, an' ee may hev giv' me a glass of yale, aa doon't say ee dud but ee may, I ween't sweer.
He told me the land was not entailed; he can leave it to anybody he likes. But I'm not going to do what he would have me do that is if it be wrong," added Richard, not willing to start the question about the Mansons. "To be a sneak would be a fine beginning! If that's to be a gentleman, I will be no gentleman!" "Right you are, my son!" said Tuke, who that moment came in.
"I should like to have just a word with my sister Theodora," said Richard. "I doubt if she will see you. Miss Malliver, will you take Mr. Tuke to the schoolroom, and then inquire whether Miss Lestrange is able to leave her room. You will stay with her; she is far from well. Perhaps you had better go and inquire first. Mr. Tuke will wait you here."
Little Omadhaun Pat is pale, hollow-eyed, and thin; but that, his mother says, is 'because he is over-studyin' for his confirmation. The great day is many weeks away, but to me it seems likely that, when the examination comes, Pat will be where he will know more than the priests! Next door lives old Biddy Tuke.
"Oh, it's a conthrary world, that's a mortial fact!" as Phelim O'Rourke is wont to say when his cough is bad; and for my life I can frame no better wish for ould Biddy Tuke and Omadhaun Pat, dark Timsy and the Bocca, than that they might wake, one of these summer mornings, in the harvest-field of the seventh heaven.
"She ain't breaking her heart! Alice, as you call her, must be doing well, or missie wouldn't be laughing like that!" As they entered, Barbara came gliding down the perpendicular stair in front of them, her face yet radiant with the shadow of the laugh they had heard. "Good morning, Mr. Armour!" she said. " I did not expect to see you so soon again, Mr. Tuke. Will you put me up!"
"What have you done to yourself, Mr. Tuke?" she said, making a motion to take the wounded hand, from which at the same time she shrank with inward disgust. "Nothing of any consequence, my lady," answered Richard, who had risen, and stood before her. "I was using a very sharp knife, and it went into my hand. I hope Miss Victoria is better?"
At the 'Change, I did at my bookseller's shop accidentally fall into talk with Sir Samuel Tuke about trees, and Mr. Evelyn's garden; and I do find him, I think, a little conceited, but a man of very fine discourse as any I ever heard almost, which I was mighty glad of.
But long after he was asleep, she continued to bend over him, as if with difficulty restraining herself from clasping him again to her bosom. Jane Tuke had been married four or five years, but had no children, and the lack seemed to have intensified her maternity.
"Why, I wus a huntin' fer a hoss thar et ther picket post whin ye scared up ther bunch, an' by some sort a fule luck I got hole o' thet one, an' tuke arter ye, tho' in course I didn't know who it wus raised sich a rumpus, it wus so durned dark.
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