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Not a person in the whole countryside, except the two, knew of the affair, but Coonie remembered, and in his queer way tried to repay the man who had saved him. "Mornin'!" he called, somewhat crustily, as was his wont in opening a conversation. "How's things this mornin'?" Duncan had hurried into the house and now emerged with a dipperful of creamy buttermilk. Coonie drank it off in one long pull.
Bill received the news in that exasperating silence which is so hard to bear. When urged for an opinion, he said crustily: "Well, what's the girl goin' to do? None of you women would take her she can't starve and she can't sleep in the school woodpile. Mrs. Gray won't bite she's a fine lookin' woman, drives a binder like a man, pays her debts, minds her own business.
"You ought to have remained on board, sir, and made me over the command on the quarter-deck." Dodd replied politely that it would have been more formal. "Suppose I return immediately, and man the side for you: and then you board her, say, in half-an-hour?" "I shall come when I like," replied Robarts crustily. "And when will you like to come?" inquired Dodd, with imperturbable good-humour.
And it was well acknowledged within the Great Redoubt, that none might touch the Diskos of another; for that the thing went crustily, as it might be said, in the hands of a stranger; and if any made foolishness of this knowledge, and did persist much to such an handling, or making to use, the same would presently act clumsy with the weapon, and come to an hurt; and this was a sure thing, and had been known maybe an hundred thousand years; or perchance a greater time.
'Whatever's ado now? What's brought 'ee both back? snapped the old man crustily. The boys were anything but pleasant interruptions in his eyes. 'Oh, we got tired waiting about for Jerry. He hasn't come yet. And we've just seen our boat come into the pier, and we want it to go for a row, both boys spoke at once. 'Ye want the boat, do 'ee now?
Here is pure Manchesterism half-a-century before its time; and one can imagine the good Dean crustily explaining his notions to the merchants of Bristol who had just rejected Edmund Burke for advocating free trade with Ireland. No word on Toryism would be complete without mention of Dr. Johnson.
The full pails were only just set down on the kitchen floor, when in bustled Mistress Flint, with a dish-cloth in her hand, which she had not waited to lay down, so eager was she to utter what she came to say. "Go to, Gossip Winter! Heard you the news?" "News, gramercy! Who e'er hath the grace to tell me a shred thereof?" returned Mistress Winter crustily. "What now, Gossip?"
"Perhaps we are; but you talk too much by half, Passford, and I have been dreading that you would make a slip of some kind," replied Mr. Galvinne rather crustily. "You were as stupid as a Kentucky mule when you stopped to talk with Byron in the waist."
"Ay, they do, my boy; but folks don't get all they deserve." "Or I should be punished for letting that boy steal the rope." "Hang the rope!" he said crustily. "I mean, hang the boy or his father, and that's what some of 'em'll come to," he cried grimly, "if they don't mind. They're a bad lot down that court. Lor' a mussy me!
"I'll cut it, sir," said Robinson, laying down his irons for a moment. "How long shall you be, Jenny?" asked Mr. Miles. "I shall have done by when your story is done," replied she coolly. Mr. Miles laughed. "Well, Jenny," said he, "I hadn't walked far before I met Hazeltine. 'Have you got him? says he. 'Do I look like it? said I rather crustily. Fancy a fool asking me whether I had got him!
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