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So you see, you've got us both Willum an' me me an' Willum, both of us lovin' you like blazes an' lookin' arter you like dootiful sons. A double tide of affection, so to speak, flowin' like strong double-stout from the beer barrel out of which you originally drew me, if I may say so. Ain't you convinced?" Mrs Roby was convinced.

"Lord, Old Un!" exclaimed Simon, "who's a-talkin' o' fadin's an' churchyards? I don't like it let's talk o' summ'at else." "Simon," said the Ancient, shaking his head reprovingly, "ye be a good bye ah! a steady, dootiful lad ye be, I don't deny it; but the Lord aren't give you no imagination, which, arter all, you should be main thankful for; a imagination's a troublesome thing aren't it, Peter?"

I don't like the look o' things, yer honour." "Why, Simon?" "Why, sir, 'tain't me as ought to tell, and yet I don't feel comfortable. I wish I could 'a had a confabulation with yer afore this performance come off. I hain't got no doubts in my mind but that hinfidel and his dootiful brother hev got dealin's with the devil." Simon rose and went to the door, opened it, and peered cautiously around.

May it love her and be dootiful to her, in her old age; helpful of her at the last; a Angel to her heer, and heerafter! 'Amen! said my aunt. 'She had been summat timorous and down, said Mr. Peggotty, and had sat, at first, a little way off, at her spinning, or such work as it was, when Em'ly talked to the children.

"As one after the other I passes the pilgrim mules I turns an' lifts about a squar' inch of hide off each with the blacksnake whip I'm carryin', by way of p'intin' out their heresies an arousin' in 'em a eagerness to get back to their waggons an' a' upright, pure career. They takes the chastisement humble an' dootiful, an' relinquishes the thought of reachin' the goddess gray mare.

"Oh, Tom Fillot, I oughtn't to have gone to sleep. I ought to have stopped on deck." "No yer oughtn't, sir. Your orders was to take your watch below, and that was enough for you. Dooty is dooty, sir, be it never so dootiful, as the proverb says." "But if I had been on deck I might have heard them coming, Tom." "And got a rap o' the head like the pore fellows did, sir." "Well, perhaps so, Tom.

He articulated with some difficulty, slurring his words to the point of indistinctness at times. "Simple enough," he propounded solemnly. "We've got the gladstone bag here; Miss Dolly's at the hotel that's her papa's bright notion; he thinks she's to be trusted ... Now then, what's the matter with weighing anchor and slipping quietly out to sea?" "Leavin' the dootiful darter?" "Cert'n'y.

He never said a wured to me as warn't as dootiful as dootiful could be, and it ain't likely as he'd begin to speak any other ways now; but it's fur from being fleet water in his mind, where them thowts lays. It's deep, sir, and I can't see down. 'You are right, said I, 'and that has sometimes made me anxious. 'And me too, Mas'r Davy, he rejoined.

Well, what happened inside the next minute made a friend o' her fer life, an' an enemy o' him. You'd have thought any dootiful an' loyal offspring would o' tried to pull me off'n him, but all she done was to stand back an' egg me on, 'specially when I took to tannin' him with the same stick he'd been usin' on her. Seems like Mart's never felt very friendly to'ards me sence that day."