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Hasn't he bullied me an' cheated me all me life long, the divil-possessed tyrant! Bain't he the livin' curse o' Chance Along?" "Chance Along, is it?" murmured Mr. Darling. "Now where the devil is Chance Along?" Then, raising his voice, "You don't seem to love this skipper fellow this Black Dennis Nolan. What is the trouble between the pair of you?"
"You'm late, Sir Oliver," said the servant, "and Master Lionel bain't home yet neither." Sir Oliver grunted and scowled as he crunched a log and set it sizzling under his wet heel. He thought of Malpas and cursed Lionel's folly, as, without a word, he loosed his cloak and flung it on an oaken coffer by the wall where already he had cast his hat.
Willyum. Zo it du be. Here du be goings-on! What will t' passon say? Zay, bor, don't 'ee zee a zort o' loikeness atween t' maid and t' Squire? Willyum. Jarge, if you bain't right, lad. Happen she do have t' same nose! Fitzhugh. Ah, my men! I'm your new Squire. Do you know who this is? Willyum. Why, her du be our Rachel. Fitzhugh.
I asked, turning on Billy, who stared and excusably at this evidence of our emotion. "No, he bain't," said Billy; "leastways, he was with her when I left him, at a place called Olmeta, or something of the sort. But by this time he've a-gone north again." "And why goes he north?" "Because that's where the Genoese have shut up the lady." "Meaning the Queen Emilia?" Billy nodded.
The expression of the girl's face changed in a flash and she sprang out and caught one of his hands in both of hers. "Kill him? Ye bain't meanin' to kill him, Denny Nolan?" she whispered. "Aye, but I bes, curse or no curse," he said, dully. "To-morrow mornin' I bes a-goin' to kill him man to man, in fair fight." "But for why, Denny?" "For the girl." "Bes ye lovin' her so desperate, Denny?"
He war sorely tried that be sartain. But if he did it, he did it; it makes no difference to me. It doan't matter to me one snap ov the finger whether the lad killed Foxey or whether he didn't that bain't my business or yours. What consarns me is, as the son of the man as saved my child's loife at t' cost of his own be hunted by the constables and be in risk of his loife.
If a man knows things and loves reading it makes him different like, he's got summat to think about and talk about and care for beside public-houses and dorgs. Canst read, Nell?" "No, Jack," she said, colouring. "It bain't my fault; mother never had the pence to spare for schooling, and I was kept at hoam to help." Jack sat thoughtful for some time. "Wouldst like to learn?" "Ay."
However, I shan't go to the trial, and I'd advise the rest of ye that bain't wanted to bide away. 'Twill disturb his mind more than anything to see us there staring at him as if he were a show."
There followed a brief silence, and then Black Dennis Nolan spoke quietly. "Why bain't ye over to Squid Beach, standin' yer trick at look-out?" he inquired. Foxey Jack's answer was a harsh, jeering laugh, and words to the effect that life was too short to spend five days of it lonely and starving with cold, in a hut not fit for a pig.
"But bain't 'ee got larning?" the miner said. "Thou canst read and write foine, which is more nor I can do and what dost want more?" "Oi'm a going to get larning," Jack said again, steadily repeating the formula, "and oi'm gwine soom day to be a manager." Bill Haden stared at the boy and then burst into a fit of laughter. "Well, this bangs a'." Mrs. Haden was as surprised but more sympathetic.
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