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For John Foster and Son has been a shop i' Monkshaven this eighty years and more; and I dunnot think there's a man living or dead, for that matter as can say Fosters wronged him of a penny, or gave short measure to a child or a Cousin Betty. They all four shook hands round with the same heartiness as if it had been a legal ceremony necessary to the completion of the partnership.
"Dunnot be a fool," says he, "words come readier than deeds to most men. I never thought o' telling th' police on him; though by G , he deserves it, and I should na' ha' minded if some one else had done the dirty work, and got him clapped up. But now he has strucken me, I could do it less nor ever, for it would be getting other men to take up my quarrel.
An' their mother were no better: Kinraid has spoken civil to Bessy as became a lad to a lass, and she makes an ado over him as if they'd been to church together not a week sin'. 'I dunnot uphold t' Corneys; but Molly Corney as is Molly Brunton now used to speak on this dead man to our Sylvie as if he were her sweetheart in old days.
A wrong to both, you say, perhaps; but if so, irreparable, and never to be recompensed. Never? "Yoh must go, my little girl," he said at last. Whatever he did must be done quickly. She came up, combing the thin gray hairs through her fingers. "Father, I dunnot understan' what it is, rightly. But stay with me, stay, father!" "Yoh've a many frien's, Lo," he said, with a keen flash of jealousy.
His aunt caught him a little aside while Sylvia was in the dairy, and her husband talking in the shippen with Kester. 'For good's sake, Philip, dunnot thee bring us talk about t' press-gang. It's a thing as has got hold on my measter, till thou'd think him possessed. He's speaking perpetual on it i' such a way, that thou'd think he were itching to kill 'em a' afore he tasted bread again.
'But thou said thee and she were like brother and sister; and a brother would ask a sister, and niver think twice about it. 'Well, well, replied Philip, 'I'll see what I can do; but, lad, I dunnot think she'll have thee. She doesn't fancy thee, and fancy is three parts o' love, if reason is t' other fourth. But somehow Philip could not begin on the subject with Hester.
Th' Lord have a care ov mo! Aw dimnot knaw which to trust, and which not to trust. But aw mun wait for maister William, as yo co' him. Bill. All right, daddy! Don't you stir from here till I come back not for nobody no, not for Joseph! Tho. Aw dunnot knaw no Joseph. Bill. I'll soon let you see I'm a honest boy! As you can't go to Mattie, I'll bring Mattie to you: see if I don't!
'I'll none kiss t' candlestick, nor him either, said Sylvia, in a low voice of determination, turning away, full of confusion. 'Yo'll not get yo'r ribbon if yo' dunnot, cried one and all. 'I don't care for t' ribbon, said she, flashing up with a look at her tormentors, now her back was turned to Kinraid.
'Dunnot stand idle, lass, but houd on wi' us; there's many a bonny life at stake, and many a mother's heart a-hangin' on this bit o' hemp. Tak' houd, lass, and give a firm grip, and God remember thee i' thy need. Sylvia needed no second word; a place was made for her, and in an instant more the rope was pulling against her hands till it seemed as though she was holding fire in her bare palms.
'Hou'd up, man. Thy lile Jack shall na' clem. I ha' getten brass, and we'll go buy the chap a sup o' milk an' a good four-pounder this very minute. What's mine's thine, sure enough, i' thou'st i' want. Only, dunnot lose heart, man! continued he, as he fumbled in a tea-pot for what money he had.
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