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'Be good enough to leave me. 'Well, I make no objections, mind. I'm takin' thy word thou'rt Maud Ruthyn 'appen thou be'st and 'appen thou baint. I'm not aweer on't, but I takes thy word, and all I want to know's just this, did Meg open the gate to thee? I made him no answer, and to my great relief I saw Milly striding and skipping across the unequal stepping-stones.
Well, and I have a rare good appetite. With that I wanted to go and smell it, and not to stop for Betty. 'Troost thee for thiccy, Jan Ridd. But thee must keep it bit langer, I reckon. Her baint coom, Maister Ziderpress. Whatt'e mak of that now? 'Do you mean to say that Uncle Ben has not arrived yet, Betty? 'Raived! I knaws nout about that, whuther a hath of noo. Only I tell 'e, her baint coom.
His mouth expanded into the broadest of grins and he coloured to his ears when he caught sight of Hannah. "Ecod Hannah, my gal, if the sight o' 'ee baint good fur sore eyes. I'm in luck sure-ly. Fi' minutes more an' 'ee'd ha' found me gone. Dang me if 'ee baint bonnier than ever." "Don't 'ee talk silly, Giles Topham. Keep your nonsense for Hester Roberts." "Hester Roberts!
'Not drunk, but market-merry, said Manston cheerfully. 'Well done! If I baint so weak that I can't see the clouds much less letters. Guide my soul, if so be anybody should tell the Queen's postmaster-general of me! The whole story will have to go through Parliament House, and I shall be high-treasoned as safe as houses and be fined, and who'll pay for a poor martel! O, 'tis a world!
Leach's orders, as deaf as a post unless you 'ollers at him, but a good-meanin' man for all that and I sez, 'Spruce, you and me 'ull go an' fetch old Josey Letherbarrow, and see if bein' the oldest 'n'abitant, as they sez in books, he can't get a wurrd with Miss Vancourt, and so 'ere we be, Miss, for the trees be chalked" and he turned abruptly to Spruce and bellowed "Baint the trees chalked for comin' down to-morrow marnin'? Speak fair!"
"Iss, fegs; and so mun very nearly did," answered the captain; "indeed, if it hadn't ha' been for young Garge Saint Leger who, bein' out of his time, I've made pilot in place of poor Matthews, who was killed in a bout wi' the Barbary rovers on our outward voyage he'd ha' had us, sure as pigs baint nightingales.
The ganger's shrewd code "All as says they be land-lubbers when I says they baint, be liars, and all liars be seamen" effectually shut that door in his face. There were other openings, it is true, whereby a knowing chap might wriggle free, but officers and medicoes were extremely "fly." He had not practised his many deceptions upon them through long years for nothing.
"Oh, no, it vas not my dog." "Why, you said it was your dog." "Oh, no, gaptain, I " "It was a white dog, wasn't it, with his tail docked, and one ear gone, and " "Dot's him, dot's him! der fery dog. Wy, py Chorge, dot dog he would eat baint yoost de same like " "Well, never mind that, now 'vast heaving I never saw such a man. You start him on that dog and he'll dispute a year.
How can ye think it friendly, Maud, when ye won't a'most shake hands wi' me? It's enough to make a fellah sware, or cry a'most. Why d'ye like aggravatin' a poor devil? Now baint ye an ill-natured little puss, Maud, an' I likin' ye so well? You're the prettiest lass in Derbyshire; there's nothin' I wouldn't do for ye. And he backed his declaration with an oath.
I told him 'twas no good for him or the boy to read such stuff, and I'd ha' none of it; but, if he chose to read me some good book, he'd be welcome for the candles baint so good as they used, and I can't get no spectacles to suit me. 'And did he read to you? 'A bit or two, ma'am, if the humour took him. But he's young, you see, ma'am. I'm right glad he'll find you here.
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