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Updated: May 1, 2025
"Be you quite sure as you aren't a dook?" "Quite sure." "Nor a earl?" "No, Ancient." "Not even a barrynet?" "No, Ancient." "Ah, well! you be a man, Peter, an' 'tis summ'at to ha' found a man that it be." And now he feebly beckoned us all nearer. "Children," said he, "I be a old an' ancient man I be goin' on across the river to wait for you my blessin' on ye.
"I lent it to you, sir, because I knew you was a barrynet, and would come in for your money in three or four years' time, and, of course, to oblige you being short." "But " "For I says to myself, `There's the money a-doing nothing in the bank, and it's obliging a gent who won't be above orderin' a few garments to make up for you obliging him, and "
Come now, be ye a dook or bean't ye yes or ne, Peter?" and he fixed me with his eye. "No, Ancient," I answered, smiling; "I'm no duke." "Ah well! a earl, then?" "Nor an earl." "A barrynet, p'r'aps?" "Not even a baronet." "Ah!" said the old man, eyeing me doubtfully, "I've often thought as you might be one or t' other of 'em 'specially since 'bout three o' the clock 's arternoon." "Why so?"
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