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Anyhow, I never knew Liza Ann come s' near forgettin' 'erself. It was worth a day's travel t' see." They talked of other things, the baby dropped asleep in its mother's arms, and Silas took his departure. "How unlike him," Elizabeth said to herself as she watched him go to his wagon. Silas rode away in an ill-humour with himself.
Fine-looking woman she was, and, wot with 'er watch and chain and di'mond rings and brooches and such-like, I should think she must 'ave 'ad five or six pounds' worth of jewell'ry on 'er. She gave me a very pleasant smile, and I gave 'er one back, and we stood chatting there like old friends till at last she tore 'erself away and went on board the ship.
"How did it all happen?" Travers asked, in a jaunty tone, to draw her out. "Well, it was like this, sir, yer see. My daughter, she's a lidy as keeps 'erself TO 'erself, as the sayin' is, an' 'olds 'er 'ead up. She keeps up a proper pride, an' minds 'er 'ouse an' 'er little uns. She ain't no gadabaht.
I say, 'Who de name er Gawd in ol' Mis' Scarlett's pahlor, when dey ain't nobody in it? I look thoo de haidge, an' dey's one weenchy light in de room, an' whilst I'm lookin', it goes out! An' de pianner, she's a-playin' right along! Yessum, de pianner, she's er tingalingin' by 'erself in de middle o' de night!" "And who was playing it, Uncle Adam?"
"Of course, if 'twas you or me, we should just tell 'er to put 'erself away somewhere where the moth couldn't get at 'er and wait till we sent round for 'er; and there'd be an end of the matter. But with 'im it's different." "He is a bit of a soft," agreed Minikin. "'Tain't 'is fault," explained Jarman; "'twas the way 'e was brought up.
'I'm a narch little gipsy, she said, 'an' I never gets tipsy' " "Why should she?" "'But I laugh an' play, she said, 'the whole o' the day, such a nartless life is mine, ha, ha! which wasn' none of it true, except about the drink, but you could see she only done it to make 'erself pleasant.
When I think of all I've done for that woman-working for 'er, and such-like-my blood boils. When I think of her passing 'erself off as a widder my widder and going out with another man, I don't know wot to do with myself. "Uncle Dick started and turned pale. Fust 'e seemed as if 'e was going to speak, and then 'e thought better of it. He sat staring at 'Arry as if 'e couldn't believe his eyes.
If her work was overhauled " "There are all my dogs there on the right-hand side of the dresser I always 'as the right for my dogs and if you find one there with an uneven shoulder I'll " "Jennie is so fat that she likes everything like 'erself; that's why she stuffs so much paper into her dogs."
An' they didn't say much any of 'em except 'er, but she wept an' wrung 'er 'ands, and blamed 'erself and everybody for lettin' the master 'ave 'is own way an' leaving 'im, as it seems it was 'is wish to be left, alone with some trouble 'e 'ad. But they 'ad come to see 'im, too, Dr.
Condemned Martini, a chap says, who's in the know an' kicks like a mule when I let 'er off made me nose bleed fust time I tried with blank. But when we gets a bit more used to each other, it 'll be a case of bloomin' Doppers rollin' over in the dust, like rock-rabbits. Don't forget to tell 'er as wot I said so." "Why ... ain't she a Dutchy 'erself?
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