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I hope there's nothing gone wrong since I've been away?" "Aw, Parson dear," says my grandfather, "I'm glad you've come yea, glad sure 'nuff. We've a-been enjoying a terrible time!" "Then something has gone wrong?" says the Parson. "As for that," my grandfather answers, "I only wish I could say yes or no: for 'twould be a relief even to know the worst."
He smiled sort o' quiet-like, and said: 'No, it war jest a difficulty about an overcharge of five sous, and it's all settled. 'All that row for five sous? I asked. 'Yes, he answered. Then I said, 'My God, suppose it hed a-been five francs, it would uv been ez good ez er play. Yo' see, that old trick thet they got from big Charlie, they overplay sometimes."
Oi consider as how that has been the best noight's work as ha' been done in Yorkshire for years and years. There ain't a-been anything else talked of in Varley since. I ha' heard a score of guesses as to how you found owt what was a-going on in toime to get to the mill thank God there ain't one as suspects as our Polly brought you the news.
"Life must a-been weltin' it to you good and proper. I never expected to see you as meek as Moses. That Holt man wasn't big enough to beat you, was he?" "The ways in which he 'beat' me no Bates would understand.
Maxwell shouted out wrathfully: "Let me see you in here again, and it will be the worse for you, you scoundrel!" "Oh, Maxwell," cried Milly, "who is it?" "One of them skulking poachers they're always in here after the rabbits. If I hadn't a-had you to look after and had my thick stick I would a-been after him." "But you wouldn't have hurt him?" "I should have taught him a lesson, that I should!"
But perhaps your father makes you." "Father is a just man," said young Tugwell, drawing up his own integrity; "now and then he may take a crooked twist, or such like; but he never goeth out of fair play to his knowledge. He hath a-been hard upon me this day; but the main of it was to check mother of her ways.
The hides, and the bounty on the scalps, made a good day's work of it; but Mark swears to this day, that if the last dozen of wolves had been a little earlier, or Westcott a little later, he'd a-been driven like a buck to the water, cold as it was; and if they'd been a little earlier still, he'd have been a goner.
Clerke, and the young gentleman as represents the Squire I've a-been tenant to, man and boy, this thirty year and am proud to name it." "Reverend sir. I began with bird-scaring, and not a penny in my pocket, that wouldn't have held coppers for holes, if I had, and clothes that would have scared of themselves, letting alone clappers.
"I wish there'd been enough money to buy a nice little home out here in the country for him and Barney. Wouldn't it have been lovely if there had a-been?" cried Keith. "Well, I should say!" answered Malcolm. "Maybe we can have another benefit some day and make enough for that."
"You don't work that trick on this party," he said, hotly. "I wasn't tryin' to draw it," muttered Wambush. "You lie!" Then Hunter turned to the leader: "What d'ye think ortter be done with a man like that? Ef I hadn't a-been so quick he'd a shot Westerfelt, an' before the law we'd all a-been accomplices in murderin' a innocent man."
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