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I prithee let me go! 'Why, sweetheart? 'Because I've a-promised another! Peeping through, as he could not help doing, he saw the girl struggling in the arms of the stranger, who was attempting to kiss her; but finding her resistance to be genuine, and her distress unfeigned, he reluctantly let her go. Swetman's face grew dark, for his girls were more to him than himself.
The only thing you can do to make up for all the misery you have caused to your friends, is to tell the truth about everything. You are aged how much? eighteen years?" "Please, sir, only seventeen," said Rosa; "and oh, please, sir, I didn't mean no harm. I wouldn't never have gone, no, not a step, if he hadn't a-promised that we was to be married. Oh, please, sir "
Trueman chose to speak definitely, it was another matter. Old Jan bore no malice, however, but answered, "That beats me, I own. Yet we shall drive, though it be upon two wheels an' behind a single horse. For Farmer Lear's driving into Tregarrick in an hour's time, an' he've a-promised us a lift." "But about that gin-an'-water? For real gin-an'-water it is, to sight an' taste."
"I've got to go. If I'd thought you'd want for me to stay why, you said you was a-going by the early train!" "But the durned thing's got away on me," said Lin, smiling sweetly from the bed. "If I hadn't a-promised them " "Who?" "Sidney Ellis and Pete Goode. Why, you know them; you grubbed with them." "Shucks!" "We're a-going to have fun to-day." "Oh!"
The old Betsy had a-promised me good luck first along, and yet I was most afraid to speak to mun, though nobody was by. And when he saw me he turned so white as death, and saith quite hoarse like, 'Lucy, what do you here? And I couldn't say no more than 'I've a come to find you, Jan. And the blood come back into his face, and we didn't want to say no more, not then. Dear Lord! That was a day!
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