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From the central doctrine of its chief creed to the system of its trade; from the vivisection-table to the consumptive genius dying so that crowds of fat folk may get his soul in a cheap form, it is all built up on sacrifice of other creatures. 'What'd you say if Ed'ard died for yer? queried Hazel crudely. 'My dear! How unseemly! In the street! 'And what'd I do if Foxy died for me?
He crosses the street, twenty times a day, to look at it from the other side of the way; and invariably says, on these occasions, 'Ed'ard Cuttle, my lad, if your mother could ha' know'd as you would ever be a man o' science, the good old creetur would ha' been took aback in-deed!
'But I dunna want it to grow up like Jack, she said. 'I want it to grow up like Ed'ard, and none else! 'Well! You are a queer girl. If you like him as you call Ed'ard what for did you take up with Jack? 'I dunno. 'Well, the best you can do, said Sally, 'is to go back to your Edward, lithermonsload and all. And if he wunna take you
You should 'a seen the primmyroses he put in my room last night; I slep' at the parsonage along of us being late. Reddin frowned as if in physical pain. 'And he bought me stockings, all thin, and a sky-blue petticoat. Reddin looked round. He would have picked her up then and there and taken her to Undern, but the road was full of people. 'I couldna go agen Ed'ard! He'm that kind.
He had never been glad to see him so far; now he was almost affectionate. 'Laws, Ed'ard! said Abel, straining the affection to breaking-point, 'you'm having a randy, and no mistake! Dancing and all, I s'pose? 'No. I shall go before the dancing. 'You won't get our 'Azel to go along of you, then. Dance her will, like a leaf in the fall.
He faltered in his speech oddly, and even reddened a little, at the same time rubbing his hands together with a nervousness which seemed habitual to him. "Mester Ed'ard, I mean," he added "th' young mester as is here. I heerd as he liked 'Merika, an' an' I comn." The loungers glanced at each other, and their glance did not mean high appreciation of the speaker's intellectual powers.
How d'ye do, Captain Foley? My respects, Sir Ed'ard! Why, if they could but press the company, they would man a corvette with flag officers." "There's many a man here, Rodney," continued my father, as he glanced about him, "whose name may never find its way into any book save his own ship's log, but who in his own way has set as fine an example as any admiral of them all.
'Like a jacksnipe fetches his mate out o' the grass, she said. 'What did he say? 'Nought. 'Then how ? 'There's things harder than words; words be nought. 'Go on. 'It was like as if there was a secret atween us, and I'd got to find it out. Dunna look so fierce, Ed'ard! 'Did you find out? A tide of painful red surged over Hazel; she turned away.
He's stronger'n you. Do 'ee go back, Ed'ard! 'Never! till you come, too. 'I like that, said Reddin. 'Can't you see she's got my gown on her back? She's mine. She was never yours. He looked meaningly and triumphantly at Edward. 'Oh, dunna, Jack! What for do you go to shame me? said Hazel, twisting her hands. Edward took no notice of her.
"Will the Beagle course be any the safer for that?" "I can't say 'twill, sir," is the answer, in like undertone. "Tho' it won't be any worse. Guess the danger's 'bout equil eytherways." "What danger?" questions young Gancy, who has overheard the ugly word. "O' the gig gettin' bilged, Mister Ed'ard," is the ready, but not truthful, rejoinder.
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