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"Nay, 'twas me as couldn't bear the notion of her," rejoined Tom stoutly. "I'd be hard put-to to do wi' onybody at arter our Betty. Hoo's wick an' 'earty, an' I dunnot want nobry; but if I did have to pick a second missus, it shouldn't be Margaret Hep." "Hoo's reg'lar set in her ways, isn't hoo?" put in old Jack. "Ah, hoo's reg'lar cut out for a single life, Marg'ret is.
"Oh, yes, miss, she's alive and 'earty; but the daughters manages everythink, and what they down't manage the h'orphan nieces does. The 'ouse is run for the young ladies, but m'ludanlady seems to enjoy it." Dovermarle Street was so interesting during the next few days that we could scarcely bear to leave it, lest something exciting should happen in our absence.
He had gold spectacles, I remember, and used to look over 'em at you while he sang hearty he was always great on singing 'earty to the Lord and when HE got out o' toon 'arf the people went after 'im always. 'E was that sort of man. And to walk be'ind 'im in 'is nice black clo'es 'is 'at was a brimmer made one regular proud to be engaged to such a father-in-law.
"But arter all, Peter, bulls pass away, an' lions, an' cart 'orses lose their teeth, an' gets wore out, for 'all flesh is grass' but iron's iron, bean't it, Peter rusts it do, but 'tis iron all the same, an' lasts a man out even such a 'earty chap as I were?" "Sometimes," said I, without looking up.
''E's only just settled down, as you may say, she says. 'Ho, don't you fret, I says to her, ''im and me understands each other. 'Im and me, I says, 'is old friends. 'E's my dear old pal, Corporal Banks. She grinned at that, ma'am, Corporal Banks being a man we'd 'ad many a 'earty laugh at in the old days. 'E was, in a manner of speaking, a joke between us." "Oh, do go on, Beale.
"You must know, boys " "Ere, light your pipe, my 'earty," said Dumsby. "Hold yer tongue, an' don't interrupt him," cried one of the men, flattening Dumsby's cap over his eyes. "And don't drop yer Aaitches," observed another, "'cause if ye do they'll fall into the sea an' be drownded, an' then yell have none left to put into their wrong places when ye wants 'em." "Come, Bremner, go on."
"I didn't take too much last night, and I eat my breakfast 'earty this morning." "There is one for you, young man," said Captain Fooks. Whereupon the Squire laughed heartily. Mr. Horsball went on nodding his head, intending to signify his opinion that he had done his work thoroughly; Mr.
Miss Lily Pratt struck up the tune, and the school arose. "Now, boys an' girls, an' grown-ups, too," cried the superintendent, "sing up fine an' 'earty. This is a 'appy land we live in an' we're goin' to a 'appier one; an' this is a 'appy day, an' I 'ope the good Lord 'll give us all 'appy 'earts." The school burst into song.
'Fine an' 'earty, says I; 'eats well an' sleeps sound, says I; ''is arms is strong an' 'is legs is strong, an' 'e aren't afeared o' nobody like a young lion be Peter, says I. Now, while I'm a-sayin' this, she looks at me, soft an' thoughtful-like, an' takes out a little book an' begins to write in it, a-wrinklin' 'er pretty black brows over it an' a-shakin' 'er 'ead to 'erself.
+ + | WARNING. | | | | Visitors, Pressmen, and Mendicants | | are not encouraged. | | | | G. E. CHALLENGER. | + + "No, it's not what you might call 'earty," said Austin, shaking his head and glancing up at the deplorable placard. "It wouldn't look well in a Christmas card.
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