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You can 'ave confidence in a man like that that's why 'e's gone an' retired; 'e's civilized, you see, the finished article; but all this raw material, this 'get-on' or 'get-out' lot, that's come from 'oo knows where, well, I wish they'd stayed there with their tell-you-how-to-do-it and their 'ymns of 'ate." "Joe," said Mr.
'Because I say so. 'But why so far, whatever? she asked amazedly. 'Because I want you to. 'But I mun go to chapel along of Ed'ard, and sing 'ymns proper wi' the folks and me singing higher nor any of them can go, for all I'm new to it and the old lady' her face grew mischievous 'the old lady in a shiny silk gownd as creaks and creaks when she stirs about! Reddin lost patience.
"Why don't they go on bombardin' of us to-day?" said one. "'Cos it's Sunday, and they're singin' 'ymns," said another. "Well," said the first, "if they do start bombardin' of us, there ain't only one 'ymn I'll sing, an' that's 'Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me 'ide myself in thee." It was spoken in the broadest Devon without a smile. The British soldier is a class apart.
'She's at a prayer meetin', as per us'l. That's the third night this blessed week. I 'old with goin' to chapel, but like everything else it ought to be done in moderation. Mary's gettin' beyond everything. I don't believe in makin' such a fuss o' religion; you can be religious in your mind without sayin' prayers an' singin' 'ymns all the week long.
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