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If ever you gets to up'ards o' fifty, and feels disposed to go a-marryin' anybody no matter who jist you shut yourself up in your own room, if you've got one, and pison yourself off hand. Hangin's wulgar, so don't you have nothin' to say to that. Pison yourself, Samivel, my boy, pison yourself, and you'll be glad on it arterwards. With these affecting words, Mr.
Now, if you loves this young cove, w'y, very good! if this 'ere young cove loves you which ain't to be wondered at so much the better, but don't don't go a-marryin' each other, an' as for the children " "Come I'll take a belt give me a belt!" said I, more hastily than before. "A belt?" said the Pedler. "A belt, yes." "Wi' a fine steel buckle made in " "Yes yes!" said I.
He works her like a dog, hires her out and takes every cent she earns. Her mother God rest her soul! has been dead these two years. And now the old man is a-marryin' an' takin' home a woman not fit for my Katy to be with. I says when I heard of it, says I: `Katy, I'll take ye out o' that hole.
"If you ever feel disposed, Samivel, to go a-marryin' anybody, no matter who, just you shut yourself up in your own room, if you've got one, and pison yourself off-hand," such was the sententious advice of the elder Weller, as recorded by Charles Dickens in the immortal pages of the Pickwick Papers; and investigation will show that in all literatures, from the earliest times, similar warnings have been uttered to men who contemplated matrimony.
Nobody ever trusts me with nuthin'. Damn it! Fifty dollars! I'll give that Bob hell for this a-marryin' that fine girl on a shoestring an' me a-hangin' around town with upward o' six thousand iron men in the kitty. It ain't fair. If they was married in San Pasqual I wouldn't butt in nohow, but bein' married some place else, where none of us is known, I'd a took a chance an' butted in.
And there was nothin' to stop 'im a-marryin' me, if that was all he wanted to feel comfortable about it. But jus' see. "Now there's you, burning yourself out 'cos your high principles won't let you go for once in a way on the spree with this Rossiter s'posin' 'e's game, of course.... You've too much pride to throw yourself at his head.
"Mebbe ye don't know that I'm ag'in' fur-riners," he said, abruptly, " all o' ye; 'n' ef the Lord hisself hed 'a' tol' me thet my gal would be a-marryin' one, I wouldn't 'a' believed him. But Sherd hev told me ye air all right, 'n' ef Sherd says ye air, why, ye air, I reckon, 'n' I hevn't got nothin' to say; though I hev got a heap ag'in ye-all o' ye."
"Don't," he continued, pocketing the money, and turning to Charmian, "don't go spilin' things by lettin' this young cove go a-marryin' an' a-churchin' ye nobody never got married as didn't repent it some time or other, an' wot's more, when Marriage comes in at the door, Love flies out up the chimbley an' there y'are!
You see plenty er po' white trash now a-ownin' fine homes and de quality rentin' nothin' mo' than cabins." "Well, Judy is the gal I mean, Aunt Mary, and I fancy they will come to live with Mother at Chatsworth." "Don' it beat all how Miss Milly's daughters is marryin' out and her sons a-marryin' in?
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