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"The Sister!" shrieked a woman behind Aldous it's the nuss he means! I sor her go in when I wor at my window half an hour ago. Oh! yer blackguard, you!" and she would have fallen upon the wretch, in a frenzy, had not the bystanders caught hold of her. "Stand back!" cried a policeman. Three of them had come up at Peabody's call. The man was instantly secured, and the crowd pushed back.
Penrose, they wor givin' th' "Messiah" at Edge End, and bed just getten to "How beautiful are th' feet." Naa, it wor arranged that aar Enoch mud play th' piccolo accompaniment, and he started fairly weel. Happen he wor a bit flat, for th' chapel wor very hot, an' most o' th' instruments aat o' pitch.
Aye, it wor a lot for a yoong mon like him, and after sich a peck o' troobles! And he towd me Mr. Gurney ud pay us th' interest for yor bringin-up th' two on yo; an whan yo got big, Davy, I wor to tak keawnsel wi Mr.
'Well, let's get done with it, he said. 'I'm off to-morrer mornin, six o'clock. You go and get Isaac to come down. 'I'll run, said Bessie, catching up her shawl and throwing it over her head. 'He wor just finishin his tea. And she whirled out of the cottage, running up the steep road behind it as fast as she could. John was vaguely displeased by her excitement; but the die was cast.
She was i' hell on sayin' words purcisely, but me an' Jamie wor too thick, an' begorra she got used t' pirta sack words herself, but she was i' fine linen jist th' same. "Wan day she says t' me, 'Willie, says she, 'ye see people through dirty specs. 'How's that? says I. 'I don't know, says she, 'fur I don't wear yer specs, but I think it's jist a poor habit ov yer mind.
'Haa could he get in, said th' lad, 'th' fence was all roight and safe? But I said, 'Did ta fasten th' gate last noight? He looked at th' gate and said, 'I don't knaw, father. Ah, that wor it, there wor his foot-tracks through th' gateway.
"Well, what matther?" said Barny, "since they wor only blind gunners, an' I knew it; besides, as I said afore, I won't turn out o' my nor-aist coorse for no man." "That's a new turn you tuk lately," said Peter. "What's the raison you're runnin' a nor-aist coorse now, an' we never hear'd iv it afore at all, till afther you quitted the big ship?"
These surmises, in the indulgence of which I piqued myself on my penetration, were strengthened into convictions by the few sentences which I succeeded at last in eliciting from the old woman. "Mr. Trevanion must be a rich man?" said I. "Oh, ay, rich eno'!" grumbled my guide. "Ay, ay! I don't say that he don't find work for those who want it. But it ain't the same place it wor in my day."
"When you buy a thing, appear to know your own mind, an' don't be hummin' an' hawin', an' higglin', an' longin' as if your teeth wor watherin' afther it; but be manly, downright, an' quick; they'll then see that you know your business, an' they won't be keepin' off an' an, but will close wid you at wanst.
"Good morrow mornin' to you!" "Arrah what Age may you be, neighbor?" Now the correct words were, "What Age are we in?" "In the end of the Fifth," was the reply. "An' if you wor shakin' hands wid a friend, how would you do it? Flanagan, who apprehended pursuit, was too cautious to trust himself within reach of any one coming from the direction in which the Bodagh lived.
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