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"An' I'm glad he's back," said the fostering aunt, "for I was a coomin' over to till ye that I've been hearin' from owle Pat, his dad, an' he's a coomin' back from the moines, and I don't know what he'd a' said if he'd found his leetle Pat was rinted.
But Greatorex was on his knees before her, lighting the fire. "You'll 'ave wet feet coomin' over t' moor. Cauld, too, yo'll be." She sat and watched him. He was deft with his great hands, like a woman, over his fire-lighting. "There she's burning fine." He rose, turning triumphantly on his hearth as the flame leaped in the grate. "Yo'll let me mak' yo' a coop of tae, Miss Cartaret."
Whereupon Louie pinched him, and David, giving an involuntary kick as he felt the nip, went into first a fit of smothered laughter, and then seized her arm in a tight grip. 'Keep quiet, conno yo? Now they're coomin, an I bleeve they're coomin this way!
"Is it running water, Nicky, not water in a tank?" "Why, no, miss; it cooms right out o' the rock as pretty as iver you saw! I often goes there myself for a drink, cos it tastes sort o' different, coomin' out o' the ground like. We wos used to that kind o' water at 'ome." "Let us go, Nicky," said the girl. "I should like to taste that water, too.
It belonged to young Greatorex and it came from the doorway of the Vicarage yard. "That yo, Dr. Rawcliffe? I wuss joost gawn oop t'road t' see ef yo wuss coomin'." "Of course I was coming." The new doctor was short and stern with young Greatorex. The two voices, the soft and the stern, spoke together for a moment, low, inaudible.
"Now," said Terry, recovering his spirits, "if we had only knowed that that storm was coomin', we could have fastened our guns to our backs and swum across, without waitin' to build the raft, and saved all the time that we lost." "But we would have been wetted all the same, had we done so." "And gained that much time; do ye know," added Terry, in a half frightened voice, "what I obsarved?"
And he drew her nearer to him by her skirt, looking cautiously up and down the lane and across to the farm. 'If I get a good price for t' wool this year an theer's a new merchant coomin round, yan moor o' t' buyin soart nor owd Croker, soa they say, I'st save yo five shillin for a frock, chilt. Yo can goo an buy it, an I'st mak it straight wi yor aunt.
"'It's nane o' us, doctor; it's Hopps's laddie; he's been eatin' ower-mony berries. "If he didna turn on me like a tiger! "'Div ye mean tae say "'Weesht, weesht, an' I tried tae quiet him, for Hopps wes coomin' oot. "'Well, doctor, begins he, as brisk as a magpie, 'you're here at last; there's no hurry with you Scotchmen. My boy has been sick all night, and I've never had a wink of sleep.
I bethowt me o' Janet an' t' birds i' t' cove, an' I brast out a-laughin' while fowks thowt I were daft. "But theer, barns, I mun get forrad wi' my tale, or your mothers will be coomin' seekin' you afore I'm through wi' it. By now ommost all t' birds i' t' cove were wakkened up an' were singin' their cantiest.
"Are they coomin?" Kit threw a glance seaward. "The frigate's piped her boats away, sir." The old man's head, still forward on his breast, did not move; he did not seem to breathe. All of him was dead save that little eye, cocking up at the lad from under the tilted hat. "Canst walk?" "Yes, sir. I'm not wounded, only stunned." "Then run below to Mr. Lanyon, and tell him to bide my whistle."
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