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The poor fellow's eyes were full of tears, for the children, who loved him very much, clung, crying, about his knees. "God bless yees all," sobbed the kind-hearted creature. "Doan't forget Jacob, for he'll neaver forget you. Good-buoy!" Then turning to Mary, he threw his arms round her neck, and bestowed upon her fair cheek the most audible kiss I ever heard. "And doan't you forget me, Meary.
"Nawhere," said Bessie, who, as usual, had her pinafore in her mouth, and never said more than one word at a time if she could help it. "Nowhere! what do you do all the morning, Bessie?" "I doan't know," said Bessie, gravely looking up at her; "sometimes I mind the baby." "Do you mind the baby, too? Dear, dear! And what does Charlie do?" "Nawthing," said Bessie again.
"I say, mother, let her be, wil tha?" said a hearty voice; and, pushing Hubert aside, the owner of the hat entered the room. She went up to Laura, and gave her a loud kiss. "I'm Polly Polly Mason. An I know who you are weel enough. Doan't you pay ony attention to mother. That's her way. Hubert an I take it very kind of you to come and see us." "Mother's rats on Amorites!" said Hubert, grinning.
'Tis more from hatred of t' others than love of you, when all's said. An' it ban't no gert gold mine. But I'd like to be laid along wi' Coomstock; an' doan't, for God's love, bury Lezzard wi' me; an' I want them words on auld George Mundy's graave set 'pon mine not just writ, but cut in a slate or some such lasting thing. 'Tis a tidy tomb he've got, wi' a cherub angel, an' I'd like the same.
Many's the time you've given me gude advice, an' I've thanked 'e an' took it." Then he went for the spirits and mixed Mr. Blee a dose of more than usual strength. "You'm the most biting user of language in Chagford, when you mind to speak sour," declared Billy. "If I thought you meant all you said, I'd go an' hang myself in the barn this instant moment. But you doan't."
How far this young lawyer might have proceeded to prove himself staunch on the person of the misanthrope, if he had not been prevented, we shall not determine; but the whole company were alarmed at his looks and expressions. Dolly's rosy cheeks assumed an ash colour, while she ran between the disputants, crying, "Naay, naay vor the love of God doan't then, doan't then!"
"Perhaps he thought 'twas so far off that " "Doan't care what he thought. Weern't plain dealin' to bide quiet about that, an' I shall tell un so." "Well, doan't 'e quarrel with Clem. He'm 'bout the awnly friend you've got left now." "I've got mother an' you. I'm all right.
Hell to live with, you must be." "God rot your dirty heart! Do it do it; doan't jaw do it! But if you lay a finger 'pon me while my mother 's bad or have me took before she 'm stirring again, I'll kill you when I come out. God 's my judge if I doan't!"
So when I offer him a big contract for carting stones atween the quarry and the town foot, he'll swallow it without question. I'll insert a clause that he must deliver the stuff at such places as I direct within four hundred yards of the Cross, in ainy direction for I've several jobs near the Cross, doan't ye see, and how's he to know that yours is one o' them?
"Let un bide," he said. "He didn't take it, an' since it weern't for Phoebe, better him had it than the cat. He works for his livin', she doan't." "Such gwaines-on 'mongst dumb beasts o' the field I never seen!" protested Billy; "an' chickens worth what they be this spring!"
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