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"Why, ye see, Gaffer," said Job at last, "theer's been a lot o' talk o' this 'ere ghost, an' some 'as even said as they 'eerd it, but, come to think on it, nobody's never laid eyes on it but you, so " "There you are wrong, my fellow," said I, stepping into the room. "I also have seen it." "You?" exclaimed Job, while half-a-dozen pairs of eyes stared at me in slow wonderment. "Certainly I have."
Reay, he kep' us wide awake an' starin'! An' there's one tex which sticks in my 'ed an' comforts me for myself an' for everybody in trouble as I ever 'eerd on " "And what's that, Mrs. Twitt?" asked Helmsley, turning round in his chair, that he might see her better. "It's this, Mister David," and Mrs. Twitt drew a long breath in preparation before beginning the quotation, "an' it's beautiful!
'Ope the darned thing's broke altogether!" "You shouldn't say that, 'taint Christian," expostulated his neighbour at the same table. "Them cars cost a heap o' money, from eight 'undred to two thousand pounds, I've 'eerd tell." "Who cares!" retorted the other.
"Why, they have not come yet, have they Rajah Hamet, I mean, and his people?" "Oh yes, sir; and they are out yonder helephants and all. Joe Smithers is doing the same job with them." "Did you see the Rajah?" "No, sir," replied the lad; "only 'eerd he was there. I am to be relieved to go to breakfast in a hour's time." Archie nodded and went on.
Then, without waiting for her to answer, he added: "Is it, you hear him say so, as I hear you singin' in my sleep sometimes singin', singin', as you did at Glencader, that first time I ever 'eerd you? Is it the same as me in my sleep?" "Yes, it is like that just like that," she answered, taking his hand, and holding it with a motherly tenderness. "Ain't you never goin' to sing again?" he added.
But that little paunchy Arbroath's worse than a whole flock o' magpies comin' together, an' 'e's actin' like a pestilence in keepin' decent folk away from their own Church. 'Owsomever, Twitt reads prayers every Sunday mornin', an' t'other day Mr. Reay came in an' 'eerd 'im. An' Mr.
"P'r'aps, Gaffer, p'r'aps!" returned Job, "but I sez again, I believe what Peter sez, an' I don't believe there never was no ghost at all." "Ay, lad, but I tell 'ee theer was I seed un!" cried the old man eagerly, "seed un wi' these two eyes, many's the time. You, Joel Amos you've 'eerd un a-moanin' an' a-groanin' you believe as I seed un, don't 'ee now come?"
D'yer see as she's leff off her ring?" Marcella looked at Emily's left hand, while the girl flushed all over, and ironed with a more fiery energy than before. "I've 'eerd such things of 'im, Nurse, this last two days," she said with low vehemence "as I'm never goin' to wear it again. It 'ud burn me!" Emily was past twenty. Some eighteen months before this date she had married a young painter.
"So I've 'eerd yisss, sir," said Miss Lining; "and there's something of the same in them pills that's spoke so well of in your magazine, sir, I think. I sent by the carrier for a box, sir, on Saturday last, and would have done sooner, but for waiting for Mrs. Barker to pay for the pelerine I made out of her uncle's funeral scarf. Yisss, misss."
There was an earthquake up at the rect'ry this marnin' the cook there sez she never 'eerd sich a row in all 'er life an' Missis Arbroath she was a-shriekin' for a divorce at the top of 'er voice! It's a small place, Weircombe Rect'ry, an' a woman can't shriek an' 'owl in it without bein' 'eerd.
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