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However, he passed the time by giving the page a lesson. Helen tapped at the bedroom door, left Mrs. Prockter to enter, and descended the stairs again. "Is her up there with him?" James asked, in a whisper. Helen nodded. "Ye'd better ask her stop and have something to eat wi' us," said James. Helen had to reconcile James Ollerenshaw to the new scale of existence at Wilbraham Hall.
"It's no user talkin'! I tell ye, ye hain't got no more sense than a coyote! I'm sick and tired of it, doggoned if I ain't! Ye ain't no more use nor a hossfly, and jest ez hinderin'! It was along o' you that we lost the stock at Laramie, and ef ye'd bin at all decent and takin', we'd hev had kempany that helped, instead of laggin' on yere alone!"
Ye'd belong to the Privy Council. Ye'd be the chief adviser av our r'y'l Majesty that's me, ye know; an' av coorse it isn't every day that ye have such a chance as that." "His Majesty" paused for a reply. Russell stared fixedly before him into vacancy, but uttered not a word.
"Why, poor Piper Tim, I didn't mean ye should go back to them or their country if ye like it better here. Ye're welcome every day of the year from now till judgment tramp. I only meant why seem' they were your own folks and all, that ye'd sort o' taken to thim the way most do, when it's their own blood."
"E-h, he be a strange one!" said the jailer afterwards to his mate. "If ye'd heard that poor lady sob as she went by! I've seen many a one in the same case, but I was sore for her, I was that. And he as cool joking with Robert over the hanging irons the next minute. 'New sort of tailor I've got, says he.
He was waiting for us at Mr. Blake's, wishing instruction about some task that fell within his duties, but he managed to have a word with me "I canna tell what waits ye, but, gin ye'd like to see through the manse, I'll tak' ye through the morn." I thanked him, declining, but secretly blessed him and inwardly rejoiced.
I've always heered thet they let a man talk afore he got hung." "Go on," growled the other, "but mebby ye'd better save hit, twell we've done tried ye. We aims ter give ye a hearin' afore ye dies." Thornton inclined his head gravely, more sensible of the clutching grasp of his wife's fingers on his tensed biceps than of more fateful matters.
How many of ye do you s'pose will come back?" She shook off those near her who tried to pull her down into her seat. "Last year they lost a hundred an' five out o' Gloucester, an' every year they make widders by the dozen. If it was set in India's coral strand ye'd know it was a fishin' town by its widders; an' Freekirk Head'll be just like it.
"Yer rooms is ready," continued the woman; "ye can take yer pick of them. Supper'll be on the table the minute ye come down. Ye'd better take this lamp, sir, and thar's another one in the upper hall. I expect ye two is brother and sister. Ye're alike as two pins of different sizes." "You're right," said Ralph, holding up the lamp, and looking about him; "but please tell me, where are the stairs?"
There was no mention of it, and I could find very little about anything except a thing called the General Assembly some ecclesiastical spree, I gathered. One day he produced my belt from a lockfast drawer. 'There's a terrible heap o' siller in't, he said. 'Ye'd better coont it to see it's a' there. He never even sought my name.
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