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Well, thou knowest it was nateral as he would drive down last noight to see how t' chaps at t' engine was a-getting on, and it coomed across my moind as it wer a good opportunity vor to finish un; so ther thou hast it." Bill gazed in astonishment through the darkness at his companion. "But it bain't true, Luke?
"Did ye give him the left upper-cut?" demanded Sergeant Doherty. "I am not sure that I did not," laughed Keith. "I know he went down over there where you saw him lying and I have ended one or two misunderstandings with it very satisfactorily." "Ah, well, then, I'm glad I taaught ye. I'm glad ye've got such a good defender, ma'am. Ye'll pardon what I said when I first coomed up.
"We 'eerd down in the village as 'ow you'd come 'ome, Miss, and as 'ow you'd give your orders that the Five Sisters was to be left stannin', and we coomed up wi' Spruce to see 'ow Leach 'ud take it, an' 'fore we could say a wurrd Leach he up wi' his whip and cut Spruce across the for'ead as ye see " Maryllia raised her hand and silenced him with a gesture. "Thank you! That will do. I understand!"
These extraordinary visitors from the deep brought with them a girl and three wounded men. By this time the captain was aroused; he spoke some English. "Vas iss diss?" he asked, surveying the newcomers with amazement, and their bizarre costumes with growing nervousness. "Vere haf you coomed vrom?" Coke pushed him playfully into the cook's galley. "This is too easy," he chortled.
"Say 'bain't. Don't say 'The young lydy, she came rahnd to our plice; say 'The missy, 'er coomed down; 'er coomed, and 'er ses to the maister, 'er ses . . . That's the sort of thing I want to surround myself with here. When you informed me that the cow was mine, you should have said: 'Whoi, 'er be your cow, surelie 'er be." "Sure it's Berkshire?" demanded Hopkins. "You're confident about it?"
I thought that fellow would get into mischief before he had done." "It war a bad day for the village when he coomed," Luke said; "what wi' his preachings and his talk, he ha' turned the place upside down.
I hope he won't kill Farmer Jones or anyone while you're not there to whistle to him." To which the youth answered: "Who-ap not! Sarve they roi-ut, if they dwoan't let un bid in a's stall. A penned un in afower a coomed away."
By and by certain familiar whoops and hullohs announced that the enemy was coming. "They hevn't coomed yet, hev they?" we heard the sexton's son say, as he peeped over at our pond. "Noa," was the reply. "It's not gone one yet." "It's gone one by t' church. I yeard it as we was coming up t' lane." "T' church clock's always hafe-an-hour fasst, thee knows." "It isn't!" "It is."
Many a day, oop on t' fell-top, t' thought o' ye's nigh driven me daft, and I've left my shepherdin' jest t' set on a cairn in t' mist, picturin' an' broodin' on yer face. Many an evenin' I've started oop t' vicarage, wi' t' resolution t' speak right oot t' ye; but when it coomed t' point, a sort o' timidity seemed t' hould me back, I was that feared t' displease ye.
The old man started and moved towards her, eagerly, his keen eyes breaking through the film that at times obscured them. "'Merrikan! tha baist 'Merrikan? Then tha knaws ma son John, 'ee war nowt but a bairn when brether Dick took un to 'Merriky! Naw! Now! that wor fifty years sen! niver wroate to his old feyther niver coomed back, 'Ee wor tall-loike, an' thea said 'e feavored mea."
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