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"It ain't for mothers to forgi'e the thing," she replied, in a steady voice, "but I can forgi'e the man. 'Twere done i' madness there beant the will workin' i' such. 'Twere a comfort that he'd a prayin' over un." Gaston took the gnarled fingers in his. It had never struck him how dreadful a thing it was so used had he been to death in many forms till he had told the story to this mother. "Mrs.
He then fancied he heard footsteps in the hall, and sundry movements of the door-knob, but nobody appeared. 'Perhaps they beant at home, sighed the driver. 'And I promised myself a bit of supper in Pa'son Swancourt's kitchen. Sich lovely mate-pize and figged keakes, and cider, and drops o' cordial that they do keep here! 'All right, naibours!
Well, says the Blue Nose, perhaps they beant great men, exactly in that sense, but they are great men compared to us poor folks; and they eat up all the revenue, there's nothin left for roads and bridges, they want to ruin the country, that's a fact. Our folks will insure all creation for half nothin, but I never heerd tell of a country being insured agin rich men.
Yeou see," his voice assumed a mystic, whispery tone, "she never knowed when hit war night, 'n' the people wouldn't tell her, nur make a move till she quit beant hit even mawnin'. Arter readin', she'd talk awhile; tellin' 'em things they'd orter do, 'n' things they'd orten't. 'N' onct she clean busted up a feud by makin' two ole fellers shake han's. That caught the preacher's eye.
Pepusch she could please Betty Higgins. "Them old songs," went on Betty, warming to her subject, "touches the 'eart and makes the tears come. But you don't hear 'em at the fine concerts. I'll go bail as there beant a woman now-a-days as can make a man fall in love with her 'cause of her singin'." "I wonder," said Lavinia musingly.
"I beant one bit afeard of them two, but I am of that Mrs. Hargrave; and it crossed my mind, when I heerd her shrieking and squalling for you all, if I had not better put a bullet in her head just to silence her, only I did not for ould acquaintance sake, and I seed, by the sniggling of them oudacious monsters, as they meant to get some'at out of her.
"Noa, they doant," was all the answer she received from the turnpike woman, who held a baby under each arm. "I am sure the woman is robbing me," said poor Mrs. Wilkinson. "No, she beant," said the post-boy. They are good hearty people in that part of the world; but they do not brook suspicion, and the courtesies of life are somewhat neglected. And then she arrived at Lord Stapledean's gate.
"Sorry to hear my fellow-workmen speak so disparagin' o' me? Well, Mester, that's as it may be yo' know. Happen my fellow-workmen ha' made a bit o' a mistake happen what seems loike crustiness to them beant so much crustiness as summat else happen I mought do my bit o' complainin' too. Yo' munnot trust aw yo' hear, Mester; that's aw I can say."
Peter's way with the children of the place was sharp and entirely lacking in sentiment "Little idiot, to fall into the ditch like that not much of the man about you, young Thomas." "Isn't Thomas," said the small boy with a chuckle, "I be Jan Proteroe, and I beant afeart only gert beast come out of hedge down along with eyes and a tail gum!"
'Cast your anchor there, said the seaman, 'and if you attempt to slip moorings, afore you've been over-hauled by the skipper, split my topsails but I'll bring you up all standing with this barking iron, pressing the muzzle of a pistol to the fellow's forehead. 'Put up your pistol, said the fellow sullenly. 'I beant going to run; you've broke my head and dinged all the wind oot of ma body.
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