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Mounted upon a fine bay hunter. Farm. Ay, so he was. "Here, YOU," says he, meaning me "open this gate for me." Now, if he had but a-spoke me fair, I would not have gainsaid him: but he falls to swearing, so I bid him open the gate for himself. "There's a bull behind you, farmer," says he. I turns.
And then I began to think that the bad luck of which the old Betsy had a-spoke was come at last. It was two days before Christmas, I mind well, and we wondered what ever Christmas Day would bring. But the very next day the news come that the French was stronger than we, and that we must go back; and many ridgments turned back that very day.
"'E've a-spoke about us stoppin'; so as Mettie goes out to sarvice." "'E've a-spoke about what 'e don't know 'bout, then. Let un do what they like, they can't put Tom Gaunt about; he can get work anywhere Tom Gaunt can, an' don't you forget that, old man." The old man, placing his thin brown hands on his knees, was silent. And thoughts passed through and through him.
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