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"Well," said the porter, "I'd better be a-shuttin' the gates till you two settle yer business. She'll dash through if I don't. I see it in her eye." "No, she won't," said Mowbray. "Don't shut the gates; wait a moment." Then turning to Edith, he said, "Miss Dalton, for the last time, I say go back, or you'll be sorry." Edith looked steadfastly and sternly at the captain, but said not one word.
"Mother!" she called out, in a cautious voice, as soon as she entered the kitchen. Mrs. Berry's face looked inquiringly out of the pantry, and Rose motioned her back, went in herself, and shut the door. "What be you a-shuttin' the door for?" asked her mother, wonderingly. "I don't know what has come over father." "What do you mean, Rose Berry? He 'ain't had another shock?"
At last he began to get so precious jolly, that he used to forget how the time vent, or care nothin' at all about it, and he went on gettin' later and later, till vun night his old friend wos just a-shuttin' the gate had turned the key in fact wen he come up. "Hold hard, Bill," he says. "Wot, ain't you come home yet, Tventy?" says the turnkey, "I thought you wos in, long ago."
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