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Squoire a'nt come o' fifty yet; no, nor an't nigh it, though he looks it. Things be altered at Greemsbury" such was the rural pronunciation "altered sadly, neebor Oaklerath. Well, well; I'll soon be gone, I will, and so it an't no use talking; but arter paying one pound fifteen for them acres for more nor fifty year, I didn't think I'd ever be axed for forty shilling."
Jim saw her coming first, and much as he disliked on ordinary occasions to see his "a'nt," he now hailed her approach with secret delight, for the Badgertown boy was giving him all he could do to protect himself. So he now shouted out, "My a'nt's comin'. Stop!" "I don't care," cried Joel, pommelling away. So Jim struck back as well as he could, longing to hear Mrs.
"I am her father's own sister," cried the lady in desperation. "Oh, yes! I see!" murmured Cap'n Amazon. "Then you must be her A'nt 'Phemie. I've heard Louise speak of you. Tubbesure!" "I am Mrs. Conroth," said Mrs. Euphemia Conroth haughtily. "Happy to make your acquaintance," said Cap'n Amazon, bobbing his head and putting forth his big hand. Mrs.
It did not, however, add to her happiness, when, after being addressed once or twice in vain, she heard her young master's voice. "Biddy d'ye hear, and be d d to you! is your misthress gone home?" "'Deed, Mr. Thady, I think she be." "And why the divil, then, a'nt you gone with her? d'you mane to be dancing here all night?"
Secretary, calling on His Majesty's liege subjects, etc., you know the run of it, and I was bound to look into it. Charges are charges, stap me if they a'nt. Don't come too near, pig's eyes! Out with your tale!" His lordship plainly disliked the whole business, and it was a very awkward thing for Sir James that I was here, a circumstantial piece of evidence against him.
Stap me, if he a'nt asleep! I must circumambulate and have a quiz at him." He walked gaily in his play-acting way round Master Freake's chair on to the hearth and then turned and took a peep at him. As soon as he had done so he gave a great shout, and then, recovering himself, burst into a roar of laughter. He clapped his hands on his knees and fairly swayed with merriment.
"I wish I'd let you, before I took him in tow," said the tavern-keeper's wife, hastily, getting over the ground as well as she could. "Mamsie wouldn't have liked it," cried little Davie, running on unsteady feet by Joel's side, and looking at him sadly. "Oh, no, she wouldn't, dear Mrs. Green." "I don't s'pose she would now," said Mrs. Green. "Well, Jim's a bad boy, if I am his a'nt.
Who's fighting?" demanded Mrs. Green, sharply. "Joel and Jim," said David, glad to think he'd remembered what Mr. Tisbett called the boy, yet sorry, as it flashed over him, that the tavern-keeper's wife was his "a'nt." "He pushed me down," and his face turned more scarlet yet. But it was necessary to tell the dreadful thing, else Mrs. Green would think Joel was to blame in beginning the fight.
"'Deed I wonder he a'nt here, Captain; but war you wanting him?" "Not in particular. Is it true the brothers of those poor fellows I took up at Loch Sheen are here to-night?" "They is, both of 'em; there's Joe Reynolds, sitting behind there in the corner where I was when you and Miss Feemy come in."
Elleney had only recently been added to the group; she spoke of the head of the house as "me a'nt," but she was in truth no relation to the kindly soul who had taken compassion on her destitute condition, being a niece of the late Mr. McNally's first wife. Perhaps no other woman in the world would thus have admitted her to a circle already somewhat inconveniently large; but, as Mrs.
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