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Recovering from the softer impressions produced by Bathsheba's voice, the shearers rose to leave, Coggan turning to Pennyways as he pushed back the bench to pass out: "I like to give praise where praise is due, and the man deserves it that 'a do so." he remarked, looking at the worthy thief, as if he were the masterpiece of some world-renowned artist.
They consisted in about equal proportions of gnarled and flexuous forms, the former being the men, the latter the women, who wore tilt bonnets covered with nankeen, which hung in a curtain upon their shoulders. Coggan and Mark Clark were mowing in a less forward meadow, Clark humming a tune to the strokes of his scythe, to which Jan made no attempt to keep time with his.
"Old Jimmy Harris only shoed her last week, and I'd swear to his make among ten thousand." "The rest of the gipsies must ha" gone on earlier, or some other way." said Oak. "You saw there were no other tracks?" "True." They rode along silently for a long weary time. Coggan carried an old pinchbeck repeater which he had inherited from some genius in his family; and it now struck one.
On a dark night, a few days later, Oak came with mysterious steps from the surrogate's door, in Caster- bridge. On the way home he heard a heavy tread in front of him, and, overtaking the man, found him to be Coggan.
"Don't any of the others know?" "Nobody at all I've asked 'em. Quite a stranger, they say." The young woman on the pony rode out from the shade and looked anxiously around. "Do you think the barn is safe?" she said. "D'ye think the barn is safe, Jan Coggan?" said the second woman, passing on the question to the nearest man in that direction. "Safe-now leastwise I think so.
"A strange vagary, this of hers, isn't it, Oak?" said Coggan, curiously. "Yes." said Gabriel, shortly. "She won't be in Bath by no daylight!" "Coggan, suppose we keep this night's work as quiet as we can?" "I am of one and the same mind." "Very well. We shall be home by three o'clock or so, and can creep into the parish like lambs."
Stop a moment;" and Coggan stepped round the corner of the porch to consult Oak. "Who's t'other man, then?" said Mrs. Tall. "Only a friend." said Coggan. "Say he's wanted to meet mistress near church-hatch to-morrow morning at ten." said Oak, in a whisper. "That he must come without fail, and wear his best clothes." "The clothes will floor us as safe as houses!" said Coggan.
He always had a loosened tooth or a cut finger to show to particular friends, which he did with an air of being thereby elevated above the common herd of afflictionless humanity to which exhibition of congratulation as well as pity. "I've got a pen-nee!" said Master Coggan in a scanning measure. "Well who gave it you, Teddy?" said Liddy. "Mis-terr Bold-wood! He gave it to me for opening the gate."
"They drink nothing else there," said Cain, "and seem to enjoy it, to see how they swaller it down." "Well, it seems a barbarian practice enough to us, but I daresay the natives think nothing o' it," said Matthew. "And don't victuals spring up as well as drink?" asked Coggan, twirling his eye. "No I own to a blot there in Bath a true blot.
If nothing has been received by eleven to-night, they say there's no chance at all." "I do so hope his life will be spared." said Liddy. "If it is not, she'll go out of her mind too. Poor thing; her sufferings have been dreadful; she deserves any- body's pity." "Is she altered much?" said Coggan. "If you haven't seen poor mistress since Christmas, you wouldn't know her." said Liddy.
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