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"I seed him at th' bottom. An' I seed 'em bring 'im up in a tub, an' 'e wor in a dead faint. But he shouted like anythink when Doctor Fraser examined him i' th' lamp cabin an' cossed an' swore, an' said as 'e wor goin' to be ta'en whoam 'e worn't goin' ter th' 'ospital." The boy faltered to an end. "He WOULD want to come home, so that I can have all the bother. Thank you, my lad.
The wild circling moor seemed suddenly to have gained a mysterious interest. 'Didn't I tell yo he wor gone silly? said Louie, triumphantly, at his elbow. 'He's not gone that silly, onyways, but he can freeten little gells, remarked David, dryly, instinctively putting out an arm, meanwhile, to prevent her disturbing the poor sleeper. 'I worn't freetened, insisted Louie; 'yo were!
David rolled himself round on his face, and took a look at the bluish patch on the heather. 'It hasna got naw name, he said, at a venture. 'Then yo're a stoopid, for it has, replied Louie, triumphantly. 'It's t' Mermaid Pool. Theer wor a Manchester mon at Wigsons' last week, telling aw maks o' tales.
I tell you, Jimmy, if you wor at yourself, an' in full strinth, that you'd have the man's blood on you where you stand, and would suffer as you ought to do for it." "There, let me," replied the lad, his eyes glowing and his veins swollen with passion; "I don't care if I did.
I'd be reet glad to send worrud. He wor theer in the ward, they tell't me, last week. Three years before she had separated from her husband, a sawyer, by mutual consent. He was younger than she, and he had been grossly unfaithful to her; she came of a good country stock and her daleswoman's self-respect could put up with him no longer.
"And that's just what she ought not to think. Why not see you and ask you the raison of it like a ha! ha! I was goin' to say like a man? Sure if she was as generous as she ought to be, she'd call upon you to explain yourself; or, at any rate, she'd defend you behind your back, and, when the world's against you, whether you wor right or wrong."
Wynn had never seemed so inaccessible, though in reality he was making an effort to be unusually bland to a person he disliked. For the first time in his existence, cringing Zack feared the face of mortal man. 'Spell o' warm weather, squire, ain't it, rayther? I wor jest a sayin' to Silas Duff here that I never want to see no better day for loggin', I don't.
But she could remember Bill Oliver's father a journeyman needlemaker; and th' Rivers wor gentry i' th' owd days o' th' Henrys, as onybody might see by looking into th' registers i' Morton Church vestry." Still, she allowed, "the owd maister was like other folk naught mich out o' t' common way: stark mad o' shooting, and farming, and sich like." The mistress was different.
George, sitting in the parlour alone, heard Nurse Barton come downstairs. "My dear boy," she said as she entered, "God in His mercy strengthen you in this trial as He has laid upon you, but I thought I'd just come and tell you myself. The doctor wor a-comm', but I said 'No; my boy shall hear it from me. I don't think as your wife will get better; she don't seem to pull herself up a bit.
The brother and sister sat open-mouthed, pale with excitement, afraid of losing a single syllable. 'An takkin it awthegither, he said, bringing each word out with an effort, 'I doan't think, by t' Lord's mercy, as I've gone soa mich astray, though I ha been mich troobled this four year wi thowts o' Sandy my brither Sandy an wi not knowin wheer yo wor gone, Davy.
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