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The instinct lies somewhere at the root of human nature, together with many another morbid vein and trait not readily to be analysed or understood. Only educated persons conceal it. "She had deliriums just at the end," said Martha, her maid. "She called out in a voice as I never heard afore, an' mistook her husband for the Dowl." "Poor sawl!
"No more an' no less; an' everything said will be used against him." "You glumpy auld Dowl!" growled a labouring man. "All right, all right. You just wait, all of 'e! Wheer's the man? How much longer be I to bide his pleasure? March! Damn it all! be the Law a laughing-stock?" The Inspector was growing very hot and excited. "He's gone," said Phoebe, as Mr.
"I'm gwaine to do nort, Will Blanchard nort at all. God He knaws you 've wronged me, an' more 'n me, an' her Phoebe worst of all; but I'll lift no hand ag'in' you. Bide free an' go forrard your awn way " "To the Dowl!" concluded Billy. There was a silence, then Will spoke with some emotion.
There is some amusement among the little bourgeoises, who are glad enough to get rid of their commercial beaus; whose small talk, after a waltz, is about bills of exchange, mixed up with a little patriotism about their free city, and some chatter about what they call 'the fine arts; their awful collections of 'the Dutch school: school forsooth! a cabbage, by Gerard Dowl and a candlestick, by Mieris!
For Molly never could 'a-bear' perch, because of the hardness of the scales, saying she would as soon 'scrape a vlint; and they laughed to scorn our idea of skinning them as you do moorhens, whose 'dowl' no fingers can pick. So we lit a fire and blew it up, lying on the soft short grass in a state of nature after a swim, there being none to see us but the glorious sun.
"'Wedlock an' winter tames maids an' beastes," said Mr. Lyddon bitterly. "A true saw that." "Ess; an' when 'tis wedlock wi' Blanchard, an' winter on Dartymoor, 'twould tame the daughter of the Dowl, if he had wan." Billy laughed at this thought. His back rounded as he sat in his chair, his head seemed to rise off his lower jaw, and the yellow frill of hair under his chin stood stiffly out.
It all went very well in fact, a lot better than I'd hoped for, chance favoured me in a very peculiar way, and the Dowl hisself couldn't have planned a greater or more startling surprise for Cranston Champernowne. Along he came presently, with his head down and his shoulders up. Like a haunted creature he crept from the woods; his face was white, and misery stared out of it.
But there I didn't hold with him; for a man be born a fool by the will of God, and I never can see 'tis anything to be shamed about; whereas no man need be a knave, if he goes to the Lord and Father of us all in a proper spirit, and prays for grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the Dowl.
"You 'm a big, just man, Miller Lyddon; an' if theer was anything could make me sorry for the past which theer ban't 't would be to knaw you've forgived me." "He ain't done no such thing!" burst out Mr. Blee. "Tellin' 'e to go to the Dowl ban't forgivin' of 'e!"
His pipe was out and the "night-cap" Phoebe had mixed for him long ago, remained untasted. "Guy Fawkes an 'angels! here's a thing! If that Jack-o'-lantern of a bwoy ban't back again. He'm delvin' theer, for all the world like a hobgoblin demon, red as blood in the flicker of the light. I fancied't was the Dowl hisself. But 't is Blanchard, sure.
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