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Thirty-six year ee ha' set there in that 'ere shop, and I guess ee'll set there till they call 'im ter kingdom come. Be's a cheatin', sweatin', greedy old skinflint is Jimmy Gedge; but when yer wants 'im yer kin find 'im." Marcella hurried home, she was expecting a letter from Wharton, the third within a week.
I just laughed at the look ov 'im. 'I'll have the law on yer for assault an' battery, yer damned miscalculatin' brute! says I to him 'why don't yer get that boy there to teach yer your business? An' off I walked. Don't you be afeared 'ee'll never lay hands on me!" But Minta was sore afraid, and went on talking and lamenting while she made the tea. He took little heed of her.
This was addressed to Rube, who was busy on his rib and made no reply. "He? not he," said another, answering for him. "Rube's ate a heap o' queery tit-bits in his time. Hain't ye, Rube?" "Ay, an' afore yur be as long in the mountains as this child, 'ee'll be glad to get yur teeth over wuss chawin's than wolf-meat; see if 'ee don't, young fellur." "Man-meat, I reckin?"
Halifax, may 'ee ne'er want a meal o' good meat for the missus and the babbies at home, if ee'll get a bit o' bread for our'n this day." "My man, I'll try." He called me aside, explained to me, and asked my advice and consent, as Abel Fletcher's son, to a plan that had come into his mind. It was to write orders, which each man presenting at our mill, should receive a certain amount of flour.
Ee knows ivery run ov ivery one on 'em; if a hare's started furthest corner o' t' field, he can tell yer whar she'll git in by, because he's allus there, you see, miss, an' it's the only thing he's got to take his mind off like. And then he sets a snare or two an' ee gits very sharp at settin' on 'em an' ee'll go out nights for the sport of it.
Jan felt as if his brain were on fire. "If 'ee'll get me the things, Master Chuter," he gasped, "and'll let me paint it in your place, I'll do it for 'ee for nothin'." The innkeeper was not insensible to this consideration, but his chief wish was to spite Master Linseed.
Indeed, he showed less of annoyance with his critics than of boredom with 'Biades, who, whichever way his big brother turned, revolved punctually as a satellite, never relaxing his rapt, upward gaze of idolatry. "You can shut your heads, the whole lot," said 'Bert airily. "First thing to-morrow mornin' the half of 'ee'll be startin' over for St Martin's to enlist; an' you know it.
Clarke says she ought to stay in bed, but of course she won't." "They're a-goin' to try 'im Thursday?" said Mrs. Jellison, inquiringly. "Yes." "An' Muster Wharton be a-goin' to defend 'im. Muster Wharton may be cliver, ee may they do say as ee can see the grass growin', ee's that knowin' but ee'll not get Jim Hurd off; there's nobody in the village as b'lieves for a moment as 'ow he will.
She can't stay in that cottage, cos they'll be wantin' it for another keeper. Lord Maxwell ee's givin' her a fine pension, my word ee is! an' says ee'll look after Johnnie. And what with my bit airnins we'll do, yer know, miss we'll do!" The old woman looked up with a nod, her green eyes sparkling with the queer inhuman light that belonged to them.
He threw the old man such dark and restless looks that Mary Anne perceived them, and, with instinctive understanding, persuaded John to go. She, however, must needs go with him, and she went. The other woman stayed. Every now and then she looked furtively at Isaac. 'If some one don't look arter 'im, she said to herself, ''ee'll go as his father and his brothers went afore him.
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