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"One of them's a lord, too," she added. "Quite a young fellow, just come into his title, I suppose." And referring to her day-book, she ran her plump finger down the various entries. "I've got his name here Wrotham, Lord Reginald Wrotham." "Wrotham? That aint a name known in these parts," said the man in corduroys. "Wheer does 'e come from?" "I don't know," she replied.
'Mas'r Davy, Ham whispered, drawing me aside, while Mr. Peggotty was stowing his bag among the luggage, 'his life is quite broke up. He doen't know wheer he's going; he doen't know what's afore him; he's bound upon a voyage that'll last, on and off, all the rest of his days, take my wured for 't, unless he finds what he's a seeking of. I am sure you'll be a friend to him, Mas'r Davy?
You go down a bit, past wheer th' water-man lives and then Somerset Drive, as they ca' it, branches off on 't right hand side an' there's nowt but three houses in it, no more than three, I believe, an' I'm a'most certain as theirs is th' last th' last o' th' three you see 'Thank you very much, said Gerald. 'Good-night. And he started off, leaving the tipsy man there standing rooted.
Then Will would be at his mother's cottage, and cut the bit of beef at dinner, and fuss over her comfort according to his custom. She went into the farmyard and took the pony from him and led it back into the stall. Then she returned to him and put her arm through his and spoke. "Light your pipe, lovey, an' walk a li'l way along down to the stones on the hill, wheer you was born.
I'm a vesselman at t' steel works, an' he pointed wi' his hand across t' lake to wheer we could see t' forge. "Gow! but I were fair flustrated. There was Abe Verity tellin' me one minute that I were in heaven, and next minute he were sayin' that he were workin' at t' steel works. You see I had allus thowt that i' heaven iverything would be different to what it is on earth.
"The crosses be very well, an' coorious, butivul things to see 'pon the land tu, but they'm poor food to a body's sawl. They caan't shaw wheer you'm out; they caan't lead 'e right." "Iss they can, then, an' they do," declared Joan. "The more I bide along wi' 'em the better I feel an' the nearer to God A'mighty, so theer!
Harry and Bill Heather had dragged the trunk off the little dray, and she retreated before them as they came up the shop step with it. 'Wheer shalt ha'e it? asked Harry. 'Best take it upstairs, said Fanny. She went up first to light the gas. When Heather had gone, and Harry was sitting down having tea and pork pie, Fanny asked: 'Who was that woman shouting? 'Nay, I canna tell thee.
"But lor bless yer! it 'ud be quiet enough anywheer about this neighbourhood at that time o' neet. However, this is wheer Bill Thomson says he see'd 'em come." He led the way amongst the disused quarries, and Byner, following, climbed on a mound, now grown over with grass and weed, and looked about him. To his town eyes the place was something novel. He had never seen the like of it before.
Miles deed at Corunna, Christopher at Waterloo, and I I deant know wheer Tristram deed. They sud hae lived lived to help me feight t' snakes." As he uttered the dreaded word his fingers clutched his throat as though he felt the coils of the monsters round his neck, and a piercing shriek escaped his lips. After a time he grew quieter and his voice sank almost to a whisper.
'I am looking at the likeness of the face, interrupted Mr. Peggotty, with a steady but a kindling eye, 'that has looked at me, in my home, at my fireside, in my boat wheer not? -smiling and friendly, when it was so treacherous, that I go half wild when I think of it.
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