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Updated: May 6, 2025
"Oh, my dear friend! forbidding to marry is a doctrine of devils! Now Lima, as I have often told you, is a city of convents " There was a sudden grinding of chairs on the flagged floor. The grey head and the red approached each other; the nightly shudder began; while the girls chattered and coughed as loudly as they dared. "No a woan't a conno believe 't!" Mrs.
'What wages ull yo get? inquired Louie sharply. 'Nothin very fat, that's sure, laughed David. 'If Mr. Ancrum can do as he says, an find me a place in a book-shop, they'll, mebbe, gie me six shillin to begin wi. 'An what ull yo do wi 'at? 'Live on't, replied David briefly. 'Yo conno, I tell yo! Yo'll ha food an firin, cloos, an lodgin to pay out o't. Yo conno do 't soa theer.
The speaker looked impatiently up the road; and, as he spoke, a couple of labourers appeared at the top of the hill, carrying a hurdle between them. Dixon threw looks of mingled wrath and perplexity at the doctor, and the men. "I tell yo', doctor, it conno' be done! Muster Melrose's orders mun be obeyed. I have noa power to admit onybody to his house withoot his leave.
The whole flock broke up and meekly followed the sexton, who strode on before them to the vestry. 'William's a rare way wi un, said his companion to David, following her brother's triumph with looks of admiration. 'I thowt that un wud ha bin harder to shift. David, however, turned upon her with a frown. ''Tis a black shame, he said; 'why conno they let t' owd pew bide?
'Yo've got him! he's hid soomwhere yo know whar he is! I'll not stay here if yo conno find him! It wor her fault' and she threw out a shaking hand towards her aunt 'she druv him out last neet an Dawsons took him in an iverybody's cryin shame on her! And if yo doan't mak her find him she knows where he is I'll not stay in this hole! I'll kill her! I'll burn th' house! I'll
'Noa; niver seed un since dinner. 'They went down to Clough End, two o'clock about, for t' bread, an I've yerd nothin ov em since. Coom in to your tay, Reuben! I'll keep nothin waitin for them! They may goo empty if they conno keep time! Reuben went in. An hour later the husband and wife came out together, and stood looking down the steep road leading to the town.
'I'm gooin up theer Easter Eve Saturday week' and she pointed over her shoulder to the Scout. 'Gells conno be out neets, said David firmly; 'if I goo I can tell yo. 'Yo'll not goo without me I'd tell Aunt Hannah! 'Yo've naw moor sense nor rotten sticks! said David, angrily. 'Yo'll get your death, an Aunt Hannah 'll be stick stock mad wi boath on us. If I goo she'll niver find out.
Aye, aye sure enough 'at's she as yo're aw drivin afore yo hoontit like a wild beeast wi her grey hair streamin, and her hands tied Ah! and the old man gave a wild cry, which startled both the children to their feet. 'Conno yo hear her? eh, but it's enough to tear a body's heart out to hear an owd woman scream like that! He stopped, trembling, and listened, his hand hollowed to his ear.
I doan't know t' reets on 't missel, but I'st be sorry when yo conno see ony moor where Miss Charlotte an Miss Emily used to sit o' Sundays An theer's th' owd house. Yo used to be 'lowed to see Miss Charlotte's room, where she did her writin, but they tell me yo can't be let in now. Seems strange, doan't it, 'at onybody should be real fond o' that place?
'I conno ha her in here washin days, nor the children noather. David opened the door pointed out to him. He found himself in a rough weaving shed almost filled by a large hand-loom, with its forest of woodwork rising to the ceiling, its rolls of perforated pattern-paper, its great cylinders below, and many-coloured shuttles to either hand. But to-day it stood idle, the weaver was not at work.
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