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He begs my pardon for interfering like, and says, 'I 'ope you'll excuse me a-doin' of it, but the woman at the milk-shop said I might 'ave 'em; and I see the butler where Dick lives wind the flowers about like that, and 'ave 'elped 'im often; and, please, I paid for the cream, because I'd got two bob of my own, Dick giv' me on my birthday. Oh, I do 'ope, Mrs.
She hung out of the window now, heedless of Harriet's appeals to be "'elped wi' the beds," and watched the games going on in the next garden with pathetic gravity. The girls were playing rounders among the old fruit-trees on the grass-plot, with a loud accompaniment of shrieks and shouts of laughter.
Then he bathed 'is face very careful and 'elped Peter bathe his 'ead. They 'ad just finished when they heard Sam coming upstairs, and Ginger sat down on 'is bed and began to whistle, while Peter took up a bit o' newspaper and stood by the candle reading it. "Lor' lumme, Ginger!" ses Sam, staring at 'im. "What ha' you been a-doing to your face?" "Me?" ses Ginger, careless-like.
"Bob Pretty lifted 'is foot and caught Joseph one behind that surprised 'im. Then he 'elped Mr. Bunnett look at 'is leg, and arter pointing out that the skin wasn't hardly broken, and saying that Joseph 'ad got the best mouth of any dog in Claybury, 'e walked 'ome with the old gen'leman and got the watch. He said Mr.
'Carn't abide them things, commented Elizabeth; 'they bust sometimes and blows folks up. 'We have no outside help, I continued. 'An' a good thing, too. One place I was in the char 'elped 'erself to things an' it was me who was blamed fer it. 'We have no gas-cooker. 'Well, that's all right, then. Don't understand 'em. Give me a proper kitchen range, that's all I ask. I looked up hopefully.
So did the Cap'n, and the Doochess an' Lady Cleone they all 'elped 'em to do it, they did. An' now they're goin' into the country, to Deven'am, an' I'm a-goin' wiv 'em an' they're a-drivin' over to see you, sir, in 'is Ludship's noo phayton an' that's all no, it ain't though." "What more, Imp?"
"'Let's go down into the cabin, she ses, at last, with a little shiver; 'it makes me melancholy sitting here and thinking of the "might-have- beens." "I got up first and 'elped her up, and, arter both staring hard at the cook, wot didn't seem to know 'is place, we went down into the cabin.
It's not your fault, no, lad!" this with a pitying look "an' no one's blamin' ye for what can't be 'elped but it's not a thing to be gotten over." Robin's grave nod of acquiescence was more eloquent than speech. Wixton dug his spade a little deeper into the pile of earth.
"Meantime, I intend to do a bit for ye that way meself seein' as you 'elped me t'night wi' that cursed knot. I'd managed 'em all but one an' that were out o' reach so because o' that theer knot an' my good mother, I'm a-goin' to do the best I can for ye." "How when what do you mean?" I questioned eagerly.
I've never seen nothink like it, never in all my days, and I've 'elped to bring a few into the world.... I can't begin to tell you about it, Mr. Stott, and that's the solemn truth. When 'e first looked at me, I near 'ad a faint. A old-fashioned, wise sort of look as 'e might 'a been a 'undred.
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