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She was therefore at her wits' end how to get the drink, for the drink she would have. Johnson, with his characteristic decision, had gone round to the different publicans in Langhurst and the neighbourhood, taking Ned Brierley with him as witness, and had plainly given them to understand that he would pay for no more drink on his wife's account.
"Sammul, my lad," he said, "God has been very good to me, for I can say, `This my son was lost, and is found. He's given me a cup brimful of mercies; but the biggest of all is, he's sent us our Sammul back again. But I will not spin out my tale with needless talk, as you'll be impatient to know all about our flitting. You'll remember Ned Brierley?" "Ay, well enough," said his son.
“What do you want?” asked the florid gentleman, sternly. “Have I ze pleasure of addressing Sir Richard Brierley?” inquired the Baron, raising his hat and bowing profoundly. “You have.” “Zen I must tell you zat I am ze Baron Rudolph von Blitzenberg.” “Gom, gom, my man!” interposed Mr Bunker. “I know you. Zis man, Sir Richard, has before annoyed me.
The tears overflowed his eyes, and he brushed them hastily away as he drew his chair near to the bright little circle of happy healthy faces. He ate and drank for a while in silence, and then said with a faltering voice, "Ned, you're a true Christian. I'll never say a word against you behind your back any more." Brierley held out his hand to him, and the other grasped it warmly.
He started up again, and with a deep sigh turned to the door. "Where are you going?" cried his wife; "you mustn't go without your tea; yon chaps at the `George' don't want you." "I'm not going to the `George," replied Thomas; "I just want a word with Ned Brierley." "Ned Brierley!" exclaimed Alice; "why, he's the bigoted'st teetottaller in the whole village. You're not going to sign the pledge?"
I'd halted rather 'tween two opinions afore, but when I left my sick-bed I came forward, and signed. Then Ned Brierley and all the family flitted, for the mayster'd given him a better shop somewhere in Wales. That were a bad job for me. I'd a weary life of it then. I thought some of my old mates 'ud a torn me in pieces, or jeered the very life out of me.
Oh, what a happy day it was to Ned Brierley and his little band of stanch Christian abstainers, when Thomas came forward, as he soon did, and manfully signed the pledge, as resolved henceforth to be, with God's help, consistent and uncompromising in his entire renunciation of all intoxicating drinks!
“When they leave Brierley I also shall take my departure on the following day, that is in three days. Therefore write hastily, Bunker, and name the place and hour where we shall meet again and dine festively. I expect a most reverent clergyman and much instructive discourse. Ah, humbug!—Thine always, “P.S.—She is sometimes more kind and sometimes so distant. Ah, I know not what to surmise!
Being in the dumps myself on sailing out of the river, and thinking of the wild excitement with which I had sailed into it, I think I should have found that I had not done crying in both senses but for the interest of watching an amiable Bob Brierley who, with his arm about the waist of the person sitting next to him, kept looking round at the rest of the world from time to time with the innocence of one whose left hand didn't know what his right hand was doing.
I am quite convinced that Captain Brierley considers me a bold person because I look at him when I have to say, "'O gentle Romeo, If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully!" Macleod crushed this letter together, and thrust it into his pocket. He strode out of the room, and called for Hamish. "Send Donald down to the quay," said he, "and tell them to get the boat ready.
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