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As he said this, he deliberately drew a knife from his pocket, and began to whet it upon his shoe I was breathless: my hair stood on end The woman exclaimed: 'Jesus God! Tummas; What dost thou mean? 'Say thy prayers! 'Merciful Saviour! Why, thou wilt not murder me, Tummas? 'Thou shalt never go alive out of this place. 'Christ have mercy upon my sinful soul! 'I'll do thy business.
"As soon as I heerd th' talk about him runnin' away an' takin' th' mad gentleman wi' him I remembered it. An' I remembered as he sat still after it and said nowt for a minute or so, same as if he was thinkin' things over. Theer was summat a bit queer about it." "I never heerd him," Tummas asserted, obstinately, and shut his mouth.
'Busted," she repeated the word slowly, with an instinctive shrinking from its sound, "that is a vulgar corruption of the verb to burst; but 'vamoosed, I do not think I ever heard the term before." "Tummas says it means to show the under side of your shoe leather." "The under side of your shoe leather, Unavella?" Miss Diana lifted her pretty shoe and held it up for inspection.
"Look 'ee 'ere, Tummas," said one short, thick-set man, addressing Bainton; "Look 'ee 'ere thy measter baint oop to mark this marnin'! Seemed as if he couldn't find the ways nor the meanin's o' the Lord nohow!" Bainton slowly removed his cap from his head and looked thoughtfully into the lining, as though seeking for inspiration there, before replying.
An analytical observer or a painter might have seen that he had a burning curiousness of look, a sort of investigatory fever of expression. "I dunnot know what tha means," he said. "Happen tha'rt talkin' 'Merican?" "That's just what it is," admitted Tembarom. " What are you talking?" "Lancashire," said Tummas. "Theer's some sense i' that." Tembarom sat down near him.
"Do you think your birding piece can touch me here away, Master Tummas?" And again he nichered more loudly than before. "Don't provoke me to try, you yellow snake, you!" "Try, and be d d, and there's a mark for thee," unveiling a certain part of his body, not his face.
"I say, though, he couldn't do that and be a gentleman at the same time. Oh dear, no! Unless he names swords or pistols, the only gentlemanly weapons, I shall be compelled to withdraw in favor of Tummas."
"I am mortally wounded, Master Tummas," quoth Obed; and I was confoundedly frightened at first, from the unusual proximity of the injured part to his head; but the overseer, as soon as he could get off the ground, where he had thrown himself in an uncontrollable fit of laughter, had the man stripped and laid across a log, where he set his servant to pick out the pellets with a penknife.
"So do I," rashly admitted Tembarom. "Tha does?" Tummas asked suspiciously. "Does she loike thee?" "She says she does." He tried to say it with proper modesty. "Well, if she says she does, she does. An' if she does, then yo an' me'll be friends." He stopped a moment, and seemed to be taking Tembarom in with thoroughness. "I could get a lot out o' thee," he said after the inspection.
"I wish I could ha' seen him," said Tummas. "I'd awmost gi' my sovereign to get a look at that picture in th' gallery at Temple Barholm." "What picture?" Tembarom asked. "Is there a picture of him there?" "There is na one o' him, but there's one o' a lad as deed two hundred year' ago as they say wur th' spit an' image on him when he wur a lad hissen.
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