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Wee'n nobbud to wait, and we'll mak' it even wi' 'em yet. 'But you must not forget the Divine injunction, Mr. Fletcher. "Avenge not yourselves; vengeance is Mine, I will repay." 'Ay! bless yo', interrupted the wife, 'they think as he's mad' 'em pay too mich already. 'Who, Mrs. Fletcher? asked the minister. 'The Almighty? 'Nay; I mean our Moses there. They say as he's awlus makin' 'em pay.
"Nowe," aw said; "it didn't come fro' th' hall; it awlus grow'd here." "Well, if thaa'll tell me which it is, thaa shall hev it; where abaats is it?" 'Mr. Penrose, did yo' ever try an' shap' your mouth to tell a lass as yo' luved hir? Mr. Penrose remained silent. 'Well, if ever yo' did, then yo' know haa aw felt when hoo axed me where th' flaar were as aw wanted.
My friends, I doubt their doin' yo onny good. Licker they'll do yo hurt. Slackbridge laughed, folded his arms, and frowned sarcastically. 'But 't an't sommuch for that as I stands out. If that were aw, I'd coom in wi' th' rest. But I ha' my reasons mine, yo see for being hindered; not on'y now, but awlus awlus life long! Slackbridge jumped up and stood beside him, gnashing and tearing.
'I were awlus for carryin'. I make nowt o' poor folk apein' th' quality, and when they're deead and all. Them as keeps carriages while they're wick can ride in yersts to their berryin' if they like, it's nowt to me; but when I dee I's be carried, and noan so far, noather. This moralizing on funerals by the sexton's wife was a new phase of life to Mr. Penrose.
'Well, if the New Testament test is a true one, he is, for he is indeed bringing forth fruits meet for repentance. 'He is so, said Enoch, 'it what Abram sez is true. I awlus towd my missus that whenever Moses gave his furst hawve-craan it 'ud be his fust stride towards th' kingdom o' grace; but if he's gin Jim Crawshaw his deeds back he's getten a deal further into th' kingdom nor some o' us.
They addressed him as 'Owd Brimstone, and made a burlesque of his Calvinistic faith, one going so far as to call him 'a glory bird, while another declared he was 'booked for heaven fust-class baat payin' for his ticket. 'Why should he pay for his ticket, asked an impudent-looking youth, 'when th' Almeety's gan it him? Th' elect awlus travels for naught, durnd they, Amos?
Look how you considers of us, and writes of us, and talks of us, and goes up wi' yor deputations to Secretaries o' State 'bout us, and how yo are awlus right, and how we are awlus wrong, and never had'n no reason in us sin ever we were born. Look how this ha growen an' growen, sir, bigger an' bigger, broader an' broader, harder an' harder, fro year to year, fro generation unto generation.
As they rested together Moses continued: 'Thaas noan a bad sort, Captain; and thaa'd ha' done a deal more good if aw'd a let thee. Thaa wor awlus fond o' childer', bud they'd never let thee alone. It wor happen as weel if aw'd a bit more o' thi spirit i' me, owd lad; but if there wor more fo'k like thee there'd be less like me.
'Yi, lass, but I've fun mi heart, and he again clasped his startled wife, and grew young in his caresses. 'I thought thaa kept thi luv for Captain, Moses. But I durnd mind goin' hawves wi' th' owd dog. I awlus said that a chap as could luv a dog hed summat good abaat him somewhere and thaa's luved Captain sum weel. 'And others a deal too little, lass.
'Theer's that Oliver o' Deaf Martha's. Naa, I lay aught he's noan so mich, wi' his dog-feightin' and poachin'. His missis wur up here t'other day axin' for some milk for th' childer. Theer's awlus enugh for them. 'Yes, I believe that is so. 'It wur that dog as welly killed Moses Fletcher, wurnd it? 'I think it was, replied Mr. Penrose. 'And haa is owd Moses sin yo' dipped him o'er agen?
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