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I mind goin' to the weddin', an' she brought en no more'n her clothes an' herself inside of 'em: an' now she've a-buried th' old doter, an' sits up at Landeweddy in her own parlour a-playin' the pianner with both hands. What d'ee reckon a woman does that for? 'Maybe because she is fond of music, said Doctor Unonius dryly.
She'd a-buried her first poor husband an' a very fine man he was by all accounts nigh upon six year afore ever she took up wi' brother John." "Indeed!" ejaculated Mrs. Cross, in a tone which signified that the fact redounded greatly to the credit of the late Mrs. John Domeny. "'Ees, indeed," repeated the narrator triumphantly. "But where was I? 'To be sure, Mrs.
"'Well, said the Captain, 'go on." "Well, sir, all on a suddent like, it come over us: what good is that there plunder a-doin' of? "'What good? asked Black Pedro. "'Yessir, what good? There's all that there gold an' silver, an' all them jooels an' preshis stones an' all them fine clo'es an' what not, an' what good is it all a-doin' of, a-buried in the ground?
The Sidlinch men had been so deeply engrossed in their task that they had not noticed the lanterns of the Chalk-Newton choir till now. 'What be you the Newton carol-singers? returned the representatives of Sidlinch. 'Ay, sure. Can it be that it is old Sergeant Holway you've a-buried there? ''Tis so. You've heard about it, then?
"I do know 'ee better nor to think you'd have any sich nonsensical notions; you as be a widow man, and have a-buried sich a lovin' wife, what have a-left 'ee the darlingest little maid to keep. Us do want no step-mothers; us do want all the love, the wold mother and the little maid."
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