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"Pray, sir, how did you come by this note?" "By the temptation of the devil; for although it was in my possession, it didn't save my two other darlins from dying. A piece of a slate would be as useful as it was, for I couldn't change it I durstn't." "You committed a robbery for this note, sir?"
"Oh! I durstn't do it," rejoined the small servant; "Miss Sally 'ud kill me, if she know'd I came up here." "Have you got a fire down-stairs?" said Dick. "A very little one," replied the small servant. "Miss Sally couldn't kill me if she know'd I went down there, so I'll come," said Richard, putting the cards into his pocket. "Why, how thin you are! What do you mean by it?" "It ain't my fault."
But what about him?" "Why, Thomas, I seed him in this town the day before yesterday." "Surely, Jim, you must be mistaken. He durstn't show his face in Crossbourne for the life of him."
"Because that little emmet o' doubt gets the better o' me every time. 'Tis like holdin' back from the Fifteen Balls: you feel sure in your own mind you'll be better wi'out the drink, but for your life you durstn't risk the disapp'intment. Over this matter I'll grant ye that I preaches what I can't practise. But my preachin' is sound.
I durstn't stop long, for the man, whoever he were, came nearer and nearer, so I just looked about for a moment or two, and then I set off and ran for my life, and never saw my poor knife again till your John gave it me to sharpen an hour since." "Eh, Sammul," cried Betty, with a great sigh of relief, "you little thought what a stab your knife'd give your poor sister.
"Wife! a pretty loitch, she an' the whole kit, up there!" went on the market-woman. "If you durstn't lay finger 'pon your wedded wife, These-an'-That, but let her an' that long-legged gamekeeper turn'ee to doors, you must be no better'n a worm, that's all I say." I saw the man's face twitch as she spoke of the gamekeeper. But he only answered in the same dull way.
'What is the meaning of all this, Gwenny? I asked, as I slipped about on the floor, for I could not stand there firmly with my great snow-shoes on. 'Maning enough, and bad maning too, the Cornish girl made answer. Us be shut in here, and starving, and durstn't let anybody in upon us. I wish thou wer't good to ate, young man: I could manage most of thee.
"You were a silly boy ever to try to cross," said Geraldine sententiously. "They said I durstn't!" sobbed the small sinner. "Oh, don't scold him!" pleaded Diana. "I do know so exactly how he felt. I've often been dared to do things myself, and done them, though I shivered." "Well, you'd surely never do such a silly thing as cross that tree?" "Wouldn't I? I believe I'm going to do it now."
Jo suddenly came out of his resignation, and excitedly declares that he never known about the young lady; that he would sooner have hurt his own self, and that he'd sooner have had his unfortnet head chopped off than ever gone a-nigh her; and that she wos wery good to him she wos. Allan Woodcourt sees that this is not a sham. "Come, Jo, tell me," he urged. "No, I durstn't," says Jo.
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