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He thought better of it, however, and relapsed into goodness just as the door opened, and David Trevarrow entered. "Oh, uncle David," cried little Grace, jumping up and running towards him, "do help me nuss baby." "What's the matter with the cheeld bad, eh? Fetch un to me and I'll cure him."
But she never stopped nor stayed until she reached home; and there, flinging in through the door and slamming to the bolt behind her, she made one spring for the bed, and slid down in it, cowering over the small stone image. Rat-a-tat! tat! someone knocked on the door so that the cottage shook. "Knock away!" said Lovey. "Whoever thee be, thee 'rt not my cheeld." Rat-a-tat! tat!
"Lor sake!" said he, hastily shutting and pocketing his knife. "What you got there?" "'Biades," answered 'Beida, with a tragical face. "Han't I heard your mother warn 'ee a score o' times, against lettin' that cheeld play loose on the Quay! . . . What's happened to 'en? Broke his tender neck, I shouldn' wonder. . . . Here, let me have a look " "Broke his tender fiddle-stick!" 'Beida retorted.
When we tuk en to church, tho', there was a pretty shape. 'Name this cheeld, says Pa'son Babbage. 'Selah, says I, that bein' the word we'd settled. 'Selah? says he: 'pack o' stuff! that ain't no manner o' name.
You'll see great changes in the picture of yourself soon though." But she was not satisfied, of course misunderstanding the unfinished work. "You mustn't say anything yet, you know, Joan," added the artist, seeing her pouting lips. "But but you've drawed me as flat as a cheeld, an' I be round as a wummon, ban't I?" she said, holding out her hands that he might see her slight figure.
You d'knaw what that means to a poor female you there, cuddlin' your liddle Jesus in the crook o' your arm. An' you d'knaw likewise what these Piskies be like; spiteful li'l toads, same as you or I might be if happen we'd died unchristened an' hadn' no share in heaven nor hell nor middle-earth. But that's no excuse. Aun' Mary, my dear, I want my cheeld back!" said she. That was all Lovey prayed.
"A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." But how when the boy is a cripple? One afternoon he was stooping to inspect an obstinate piece of boring when the man at his elbow said: "Hullo! edn' that young Joey Pezzack in diffities up there? Blest if the cheeld won't break his neck wan of these days!"
"In veerity an unaccoontable geerl," said Cranstoun, as he sipped his wine that day after dinner in the mess room at Detroit. "A always seed she was the cheeld of the deevil." "Child of the devil in soul, if you will," observed Granville, "but a true woman a beautiful, a superb woman in person at least, did she appear this morning, when we first entered that room did she not Henry?"
Piskies steal my cheeld an' Dan'l's, would they? I'll pisky 'em!" She showed them forth "put them to doors" as we say in the Duchy every one, the Priest included. She would have none of their consolation. "You mean it kindly, naybors, I don't say; but tiddn' what I happen to want. I wants my cheeld back; an' I'll have'n back, what's more!" They went their ways, agreeing that the woman was doited.
"Why, iss, we've got wan small drop," said Mrs Maggot, gently arranging the clothes on the cradle, "that the doctor have order for the cheeld. You're welcome to a taste of it, but plaise don't make so much noise, for the poor cheeld's slaipin'."
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