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There is no danger of shooting your fingers off with them, Sir, or firing away your ramrod. No, there ain't, is there, Sir?" "Tom, do'ee put on your hat now, that's a good soul," said his attentive wife, who had followed him out a third time to remind him of his danger.
"Tak' your hands away, then." "Nay; not till yo've showed me." A pause. "Do'ee, Davie," she supplicated. And "Do'ee," he pleaded. She tilted her face provokingly, but her eyes were still down. "It's no manner o' use, Davie." "Iss, 'tis," he coaxed. "Niver." "Please." A lengthy pause. "Well, then " She looked up, at last, shy, trustful, happy; and the sweet lips were tilted further to meet his.
Do'ee see if 'ee can't find her an old body. The common is an open piece of furze and heath at the verge of the forest; and here, in a tent just large enough to creep in, the gipsy woman had borne twins in the midst of the snow and frost. They could not make a fire of the heath and gorse even if they cut it, the snow and whirling winds would not permit.
"Come, forgive the lad. He will be more sorry afterwards than if you had punished him." "Do'ee think so?" said the woman, as, struck either by the words, the manner, or the tone, she looked up straight at him. "Do'ee really think so, Mr. Halifax?" "I am sure of it. Nothing makes one so good as being forgiven when one has been naughty. Isn't it so, Jack, my namesake?"
Her jailor officiously followed her from place to place, and observed what she did for the present in silence. It was now the hour of rest. "Good night, child," said this saucy girl, in the act of retiring. "It is time to lock up. For the few next hours, the time is your own. Make the best use of it! Do'ee think ee can creep out at the key-hole, lovey? At eight o'clock you see me again.
"No, Sir," said he, looking delighted, "nothing is ard to a man as knows how, as you do." "Tom," sais Betty, "don't that do'ee good? Oh, Sir, I ain't eard that since I left the hold country, it's what the guards has used to be played in the mail-coaches has was. Oh, Sir, when they comed to the town, it used to sound pretty; many's the time I have run to the window to listen to it.
'Oh, comed back, has he? Jes' so! Well, I ain't surprised. 'No, you never are, Binks! Alick drily observed. 'Take an earthquake to wake you up! he added under his breath. 'And do'ee say as the lad's left an arm behind? inquired Binks. 'Yes, I did, rejoined Geoff. 'He's up at the house yonder, in the study, telling the vicar how it was done. Mrs.
"True, true," says Abe; but after a bit he asks rather sly-like: "And s'posin' you're the lucky one, how do'ee reckon you're going to maintain her?" "Why, on seaman's wages, I suppose; or else at the shoe-mending. I learnt a little of that trade in Jivvy, as you d'know." "Well," says Abe, "I was reckonin' to set up school and teach navigation.
She wants to get up; and she says to me, "Mother, do'ee try and get me a body; 'tis hard to lie here abed and be well enough to get up, and be obliged to stay here because I've got nothing but a bedgown." For you see, my good lady, we managed pretty well with the first baby; but the second bothered us, and we cut up all the bits of things we could find, and there she ain't got nothing to put on.
He stood before her, one hand on the chair-back on either side. She sat thus, caged between his arms, with drooping eyes and heightened color. "Not so close, David, please," she begged, fidgeting uneasily; but the request was unheeded. "Do'ee move away a wee," she implored. "Not till yo've showed me," he said, relentless. "I canna, Davie," she cried with laughing, petulance. "Yes, yo' can, lass."
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