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This time Woodden set the plant upon a table and replied: "If you're aspeaking to me, sir, that baint my name, and what's more, if you calls me so again, I'll punch your head, whoever you be," and very deliberately he rolled up the sleeves on his brawny arms, a sight at which I too began to swell with inward merriment. "Look here, father," said Mr. Stephen, stepping forward.
'Drive like the devil! he roared again a few minutes afterwards, in fuming dissatisfaction with their rate of progress. 'Baint I doing of it? said the driver, turning angrily round. 'I ain't going to ruin my governor's horses for strangers who won't pay double for 'em not I. I am driving as fast as I can. If other folks get in the way with their traps I suppose I must drive round 'em, sir?
"Well, I do believe it will be spoke of longer than we are like to hear," said the host, "and I don't much matter the story, if it baint told o' the wrong man." Here he touched his tumbler with the spoon, indicating by that little ring that Tom, who had returned with the Captain's grog, was to replenish it with punch. "And Sir Bale is like to be a friend to this house.
I like you better than any lass that ever I saw, a deal; you're nicer by chalks; there's none like ye there isn't; and I wish you'd have me. I ha'n't much tin father's run through a deal, he's pretty well up a tree, ye know; but though I baint so rich as some folk, I'm a better man, 'appen; and if ye'd take a tidy lad, that likes ye awful, and 'id die for your sake, why here he is.
At the door of a small room in one of the houses stood a girl of some ten or eleven years old, looking out anxiously as if in expectation of some one, turning every now and then to address a word to her mother, who lay in the small room on a bed in the corner. "He baint a-comin' yet," she said, "'cos I knows his step; but he'll be 'long soon ye see if he don't!
He said, "You be one of Parson Underwood's little chaps, baint you? A rare honest gentleman of the right sort war he he war!" and he pulled down another boy and put me up instead, and told me all about the great fire at Stubbs's factory. You can't think what fun it was. Roar, roar, up went the flame. Swish, wish, went the water such a bellowing such great clouds of smoke!
Thee baint turned nointy yit, be 'ee?" said a labourer, winking heavily, to convey to the audience that the suggestion was a humorous one. "Ah, zo I wude, and shute Boers wi' the best on 'un. But the Governmint baint got the zince tu ax me," said Happy Jack, chuckling. "The young volk baint nigh zo knowing as I du be. Old Kruger wuden't ha' tuke in I, try as 'un wude.
I did not say so. I hope that's enough, I said, startled; and, notwithstanding my speech, very angry, for I felt instinctively that Milly's despatch homeward was a mere trick, and I the dupe of this coarse stratagem. 'Well then, if ye baint angry, so much the better, Maud. I only want to know why you're afeard o' me.
"Look 'ee 'ere, Tummas," said one short, thick-set man, addressing Bainton; "Look 'ee 'ere thy measter baint oop to mark this marnin'! Seemed as if he couldn't find the ways nor the meanin's o' the Lord nohow!" Bainton slowly removed his cap from his head and looked thoughtfully into the lining, as though seeking for inspiration there, before replying.
'I behaved a d fool; but I baint one o' they sort. I'm a fellah as 'ill fight his man, an' stan' up to 'm fair, don't ye see? An' baint one o' they sort no, dang it, I baint. Dudley delivered his puzzling harangue with a good deal of undertoned vehemence, and was strangely agitated.
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