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"Not but what I've drawed a bit heavy on my draft of late, along o' pretendin' to heathen ways an' thoughts what I never really held with; but 't is all wan now an' I lay I'll soon set the account right, wi' a balance in my favour, tu. Seein' how shameful I was used, ban't likely no gert things will be laid against me." "And auld Lezzard will go to the Union?"
Ax your awn mother if what I sez ban't God's truth. We as got the bwoys be content wi' that little. We awnly want to help theer young shoulders wi' our auld wans, to fight for 'em to the last. We'll let theer wives have the love, we will, an' ax no questions an' an' we'll break our hearts when the cheel 's took out o' his turn break our hearts by inches same as I be doin' now."
I be gwaine to give myself up then us'll see who's the fule!" Phoebe was out of bed with her arms round her husband in a moment. "No, no never. You couldn't, Will; you daren't 'tis against nature. You ban't free to do no such wild thing. You forget me, an' the li'l maid, an' t' other comin'!" "Doan't 'e choke me," he said; "an' doan't 'e look so terrified.
He snuffled and dried his scanty tears on a red handkerchief, then cheered up and drank his liquor. "It do take all sorts to make a world, an' a man must act accordin' as he'm built," continued Mr. Lyddon. "Ban't no more use bein' angered wi' a chap given to women than 'tis bein' angered wi' a fule, because he's a fule.
I'm weary of you; I don't fear you worse than a blind worm; but such as you are, you've grawed against me since my luck comed. I wish Chris would drop you as easy as I can, for you'm teachin' her to waste her life, same as you waste yours." "Very well, I'll go. We're enemies henceforth, since you wish it so." "Blamed if you ban't enough to weary Job!
"I ban't no croaker, as you knaws. Happy, are 'e? happy for wance? I suppose you'll say now, as you've said plenty times a'ready, that you 'm to the tail of your troubles for gude an' all just in your auld, silly fashion?" "Not me, auld chap, never no more so long as you 'm alive! Ha, ha, ha that's wan for you! Theer! if 't isn't gude to laugh again!"
Like a thunderbolt the circling suspicions fell on Will, and for a moment smothered his customary characteristics under sheer surprise. The miller spoke nervously, and walked up and down with his eyes averted. "Ban't no gert matter, I hope, an' I won't keep 'e from your work five minutes. You've awnly got to say 'No, an' theer's an end of it so far as I'm concerned.
An' I wants to knaw wheer he lives 'cause he might think I be in Newlyn still, but I ban't. I'm livin' up Drift along wi' Mr. Chirgwin. An' I wish he could knaw it." "He was called 'Mister John'? Well, I'll see what I can do to find out anything about him. And your name?" "Joan Tregenza. If you'll be so good as to put a question round 'mongst the painting gen'lemen, I'd thank 'e kindly."
Your man was told 't was a blessed cross, an' he flouted the lot of us an' left it wheer 't was. 'T is a challenge, if you come to think of it, a scoffin' of the A'mighty to the very face of Un. I wouldn't stand it myself if I was Him." "Will, do 'e hear Mr. Blee?" asked Phoebe. "I hear un. 'T is tu late now, even if what he said was true, which it ban't."
And you've had your dose by the look of you; and I've had mine; and what I've suffered you'll never know, I assure you." He went whiter than a dog's tooth behind his black hair, and his eyes bulged on her. He crept a bit nearer and she held out her hand. But the little loony had got his pride yet. "I ban't so sure," he said. "No doubt you've come with a tale; but you'll have to hear me first.
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