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Aught's better nor clemming in Lonnon!" "You've got no right aboard here, though," said Mr Mackay, who could not help smiling at the easy way in which the whilom dying man now took things. "Who's going to pay your passage-money? The captain's in a fine state, I can tell you, about it, and I don't know what he won't do to you. He might order you to be pitched overboard into the sea, perhaps."
She would ask me to sing sometimes, and often we would sit and talk of the days that seemed so 'few and evil' in the light of advancing immortality. 'Ay, dearie, she would say, 'it is not much to look back upon except in an angel's sight, a poor old woman's life, who worked and struggled to keep her master and children from clemming.
On the whole he was not so hungry as his daughter. For it was a long fast from the one o'clock dinner hour at Miss Simmonds' to the close of Mary's vigil, which was often extended to midnight. She was young, and had not yet learned to bear "clemming." One evening, as she sang a merry song over her work, stopping occasionally to sigh, the blind Margaret came groping in.
Hoo's never looked up sin' he were born, and hoo loves him as if he were her very life, as he is, for I reckon he'll ha' cost me that precious price, our lile Jack, who wakened me each morn wi' putting his sweet little lips to my great rough fou' face, a-seeking a smooth place to kiss, an' he lies clemming. Here the deep sobs choked the poor man, and Nicholas looked up, with eyes brimful of tears, to Margaret, before he could gain courage to speak.
I did na' think he'd got it in him to lie still and let th' water creep o'er him till he died. Boucher, yo' know. 'Yes, I know now, said Mr. Hale. 'Go back to what you were saying: you'd not speak in haste 'For his sake. Yet not for his sake; for where'er he is, and whate'er, he'll ne'er know other clemming or cold again; but for the wife's sake, and the bits o' childer.
Yet I would have thee look to this at least; that I took thee from poverty and pinching, and have reared thee as faithfully as ever mother did to child; clemming thee never, smiting thee not so oft, and but seldom cruelly. Moreover, I have suffered thee to go whereso thou wouldest, and have compelled thee to toil for nought but what was needful for our two livelihoods.
At last he said: 'I know nought of your ways down South. I have heerd they're a pack of spiritless, down-trodden men; welly clemmed to death; too much dazed wi' clemming to know when they're put upon. Now, it's not so here. We known when we're put upon; and we'en too much blood in us to stand it.
I've been miles round looking for a job, but it's no use; there's fifty asking for every place open." The tears came into Jack's eyes as he looked at the pinched face of his friend. "Why did you not write to me?" he asked, almost angrily. "I told you where a letter would find me; and here are you all clemming, and me know nought of it. It's too bad.
Will you be clemmed, or will you be worried? Now clemming is a quiet death, and worrying isn't, so I choose clemming, and come into th' Union. But I'd wish they'd leave me free, if I am a fool." Creak, creak, went the stairs. Her father was coming down at last. Yes, he came down, but more doggedly fierce than before, and made up for his journey, too; with his little bundle on his arm.
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