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Updated: June 21, 2025
Thirteen's an unlucky number, mister; and as soon as I reckernised that our ship's company totted up to that I knowed we should have trouble, in some shape or form. But we arrived at Cape Town all right; discharged our cargo; took in ballast; filled up our water tanks, and got away to sea again all right; and it wasn't until the night afore last that the trouble comed along.
And mother were so fond o' Philip; but he kept something from me as would ha' made me a different woman, and some one else, happen, a different man. I were troth-plighted wi' Kinraid the specksioneer, him as was cousin to th' Corneys o' Moss Brow, and comed back lieutenant i' t' navy last Tuesday three weeks, after ivery one had thought him dead and gone these three years. She paused.
Thar are still boats sometimes missing up the river, which may have been snagged and gone down with all hands, and which may be have comed to thar end some other way. Anyhow, no one thinks much about pirates now, and the river's quite as safe as the streets of New Orleans. That mayn't be saying much, perhaps, but it's good enough.
Then he went away to Newton to join some lawyer body an' larn his business. An' I mind the two small maids as was my elder sisters and comed betwixt me an' Joel. Both died like candles blawed out roughly by the wind. They wasn't made o' the stuff to stand Dartymoor winters."
Would Mammy Longman let me take one?" "Yep. Go in, and tell her. She air in bed." Tess covered the babe's face, and placed the basket on the table. "I can't leave him in the hut," she explained; "the rats air too thick." "Yes," was all Longman said, and he fell to thinking deeply. Tess crept away to the back room. "I comed to see ye, Mammy Longman, and "
If they 'm printed big, wan under t'other, same as I've wrote 'em, they'll fill a barn door purty nigh!" Then he turned to his papers. "'The said goods and chattels are as follows, namely, reg'lar lawyer's English, you see, though how I comed to get it so pat I caan't tell. "Do'e judge that's the best order, Will?" "Coourse 't is! I thought that out specially.
"No, never, not if you'd awnly turn your faace the right way. Theer's oceans o' comfort an' love waitin' for 'e, gal. You did belong to a hard world, as I knaws who have just comed from speech wi' your faither; but 'twas a world o' clean eatin' an' dressin' an' livin' a God-fearin' world leadin' up'ards on a narrer, ugly road, but a safe road, I s'pose. An' you left it.
And Susan, she did write back immediate an' say, 'My poor bwoy, there be a sad surprise in store for you. And then when he comed they did make it up between them to keep quiet till " "There's the clock, too," observed Abel, ending the pause at last. "You can take the clock," cried Jenny, simultaneously recovering speech and self-possession. "Take the clock, Abel Guppy, and take yourself off.
"Oh, why didn't you come and call me up, Master Tom?" cried the gardener reproachfully. "If I'd been there we could ha' captivated 'em, for there must ha' been two. That there ladder couldn't ha' lifted itself up again, and stood ready for the one inside to get down." "Yes, there must have been two," said Tom thoughtfully. "You should ha' comed and called me, sir you should indeed.
'A only telled yo' t' account like for me bein' at a loose end i' Monkshaven. My sister, her as lived at Dale End an' is a widow, has comed int' town to live; an' a'm lodging wi' her, an' jobbin' about.
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