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"Good heavens! what did you do that for, Creedle?" said Giles, sternly, and jumping up. "'Tis how I do it when they baint here, maister," mildly expostulated Creedle, in an aside audible to all the company. "Well, yes but " replied Giles. He went over to Grace, and hoped none of it had gone into her eye. "Oh no," she said. "Only a sprinkle on my face. It was nothing."
'It baint in him, you can't get it out o' 'im, no more nor ye'll draw smoke out o' this, and he raised his pipe an inch or two, with his thumb on the bowl, 'without backy and fire. 'Tisn't in it. 'Maybe I can be of some use? I said, thinking. 'Maybe, he rejoined.
"He baint himself," reiterated Buggins emphatically; "He was fair mazed and dazed with his argifyin'. 'Meek and quiet sperrit'! Who wants the like o' that in this 'ere mortal wurrld, where we all commences to fight from the moment we lays in our cradles till the last kick we gives 'fore we goes to our graves? Meek and quiet goes to prison more often than rough and ready!"
Spruce; "Ye baint goin' already?" "I must! To-morrow's Sunday, remember!" "Ah! that it is!" she sighed, "And my mind sorely misgives me that I never asked the new servants whether they was 'Igh, Low or Roman. It fairly slipped my memory, and they seemed never to think of it themselves. Why didn't they remind me, Passon? can you answer me that?
'Be so good, then, as to re-enter your dog-cart and drive away, I replied, very much incensed. 'Now, there it is again! Ye can't speak me civil. Another fellah'd fly out, an' maybe kiss ye for spite; but I baint that sort, I'm all for coaxin' and kindness, an' ye won't let me. What be you drivin' at, Maud? 'I think I've said very plainly, sir, that I wish to be alone.
"You baint goin' to tell me," said Susannah, "that you act'lly mean to take and trapse to Plymouth in all this heat?" "I do," said Barbree. "Get me my shawl and bonnet." "What, on a Saturday afternoon! And me left single-handed to tend the customers!" "Drat the customers!" said Aunt Barbree. "And drat everything, includin' the boy, if you like! But fetch to Plymouth I must and will.
I will have her, or I will die, Betty. 'Wull. Thee will die in either case. But it baint for me to argify. And do her love thee too, Jan? 'I hope she does, Betty I hope she does. What do you think about it? 'Ah, then I may hold my tongue to it. Knaw what boys and maidens be, as well as I knew young pegs.
Bates led the way, stooping under the doorplaces, into his small sitting-room, and, shaking the patchwork cushion in his arm-chair, moved it to within a good roasting distance of the blazing fire. 'Eh, but yer shoes are faine an' wet, an' ye must put up yer faet on the fender. Rare big faet, baint 'em? aboot the saize of a good big spoon. I woonder ye can mek a shift to stan' on 'em.
I never struck a man foul, much less hurt a girl, in my days; besides, Maud, I likes ye too well to hurt ye. Dang it, lass, you're my cousin, ye know, and cousins is all'ays together and lovin' like, an' none says again' it. 'I've nothing to explain there is nothing to explain. I've been quite friendly, I said, hurriedly. 'Friendly! Well, if there baint a cram!
"I didn't mean to shave only your cheek, sir, but your chin as well." "Now that'll do, Dick. I'm not ashamed of having no beard, and I'm not ashamed of being a boy, so now then." "Course you ain't, sir. There, I didn't mean nothing disrespectful. It was only my fun. This here 'bacca as you give me, sir, baint the best I ever had.
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