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And then he was scared at the wholesale loss of so large a sum to his mother. "Never fear, lad," honest Tugwell replied, for the young man's face was fair to read; "we'll not take a farden of thy hard airnings, not a brass farden, so help me Bob! Gentlefolks has so much call for money, as none of us know nothing of.
In what way does she differ from my other lady patients?" And even as he spoke the words he knew in his heart that she differed from every other woman in the world. Mrs. M'Gregor sniffed. "Do your other lady patients wear furs that your airnings for six months could never pay for, Mr. Keppel?" she inquired. "No, unfortunately they pin their faith, for the most part, to gaily coloured shawls.
Not as if they was owing for, or bought at auction, or so much as beaten down by sixpence, but all at full price and own judgment, paid for by airnings of labour and perils of the deep. And as Widow Shanks said, the last time she was here, by spoiling of the enemies of England, who makes us pay tremenjious for 'most everything we lives on.
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