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One of the men was asking the other what was the truth about the Duke. "Why," his mate answered, "they say as he got beat back coming towards London. They say he be going to Bridgewater, now, to make it a castle, like; or perhaps he be a coming to Taunton. They say he have only a mob, like, left to en, what with all this rain. But I do-an't know.
I do-an't like the look of things, nor I do-an't like the way things are done. If you take a old man's advice you'll come too." "Noa," said the honest oaf, "I be agoin' to vight. I be a-goin' to London town to be a girt sol-dier." "Ah," said the old man, shortly, "you be a vule, Tummas. Wish ee good day, maister."
"I hate these no-ates," he was saying. "They do-an't seem like money. But I doubt they'll last my da-ay."
"There, now!" said Keziah. "I was ma-akin' a'most sure you didn't see the right of it, Master Costrell. And I wasn't far wrong, that once!" "Maybe I'm out, but I do-an't see rightly where. A girl's an orphan, with ne'er a fa-ather nor a moother. Maybe one o' them was living? Will that square it?" "One o' them's living still. And none so vairy far from where we stand.
You get out of this 'ere army afore you're took. I tell ee thy Duke be a doomed man. Look at en's face. Why, boy, there be eleven thousand soldiers a-marching to put er down. You've only a got a quarter of that lot. Come out of en, boy. Do-an't ee be led wrong."
The other hesitated, while my heart sank. I very nearly went back to my prison, thinking that all was over. "No," said his comrade. "Us'll ask Sir Travers first. He do-an't like people grubbing about. Some of his forefathers as they call them weren't very good, I do hear, neither. He do-an't want none of their little games brought to light, like."
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