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"I mind well as when I were a lad, sixteen year ago, my fayther borrered a bit o' money off John Bolderfield, to buy a cow with an' there was 'arf of it in them 'arf-crowns." Those standing near overheard. Bessie and the girl stopped quarrelling. The landlord, startled, cast a sly eye in Bessie's direction. She came up to the bar. "What's that yer sayin'?" she demanded.
John, in his excitement, was so startled that he almost dropped his end of the box. "Why, Bolderfield," said Watson's cheery voice, "what have you got there? Do you want a hand?" "No, I don't thank yer kindly," said John in agitation. "An', if you please, Muster Watson, don't yer say nothin' to nobody." The burly policeman looked from John to Isaac, then at the box.
Now, will yer let us ask yer a question or two? 'I dessay, said Bessie, polishing her cup. 'Well, then to begin reg'lar, Mrs. Costrell yo agree, don't yer, as Muster Bolderfield put his money in your upstairs cupboard? 'I agree as he put his box there, said Bessie sharply. John broke into inarticulate and abusive clamour. Bessie turned upon him.
Yet she had bade him kiss her and he obeyed her groaning within himself, incapable altogether, out of sheer abasement, of saying those words she had asked of him. Then he sat down beside her, motionless. John tried once or twice to speak to him, but Isaac shook his head impatiently. At last the mere presence of Bolderfield in the room seemed to anger him.
John, in his excitement, was so startled that he almost dropped his end of the box. 'Why, Bolderfield, said Watson's cheery voice, 'what have you got there? Do you want a hand? 'No, I don't thank yer kindly, said John, in agitation. 'An, if you please, Muster Watson, don't yer say nothin to nobody. The burly policeman looked from John to Isaac, then at the box.
'Ee's got the look on it awready. Wheniver it's light I'll go fetch Muster Drew. With the first rays of the morning Bolderfield got up from the bed in Mary Anne's cottage, where she had placed him a couple of hours before, imploring him to lie still and rest himself. He slipped on his coat, the only garment he had taken off, and taking his stick he crept down to the cottage door.
'Ee's got the look on it awready. Wheniver it's light I'll go fetch Muster Drew." With the first rays of the morning Bolderfield got up from the bed in Mary Anne's cottage, where she had placed him a couple of hours before, imploring him to lie still and rest himself. He slipped on his coat, the only garment he had taken off, and, taking his stick, he crept down to the cottage door.
He John Bolderfield had been working on for the widow; but, in his opinion, she was "nobbut a caselty sort of body," and the sooner she and her children were taken off to Barnet, where they were to live with her mother, the less she'd cost them as had the looking after her. As for the crops, they wouldn't pay the debts; not they.
Yet she had bade him kiss her and he obeyed her groaning within himself, incapable altogether, out of sheer abasement, of saying those words she had asked of him. Then he sat down beside her, motionless. John tried once or twice to speak to him, but Isaac shook his head impatiently. At last the mere presence of Bolderfield in the room seemed to anger him.
And John Bolderfield was three pounds poorer that quarter than he need have been all along of Saunders. And now Saunders was talking 'agen him' like this blast him! 'Oh, an then he went on' pursued Bessie with gusto 'about your bein too ignorant to put it in the post-office. Yer couldn't see more nor the length of your own nose he said it was edication you wanted.
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