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A pale, thin woman scrambled up on the stone, and stood there, her scanty and patched garments fluttering in the bitter breeze, as, with face sharpened with want, and eyes fierce with misery, she began, in a querulous, 'scornful falsetto: "I am an honest woman. I brought up seven children decently; and never axed the parish for a farden, till my husband died.
The Inca of Peru stood at the door of his tent and surveyed Black Jack, who was not more than a few feet away from him. 'Have a glass of my elixir, he said to the death-dealer; 'no one in this town needs it more than thee, by all accounts. Have a glass, and live for ever. Only sixpence. The man in the cart laughed aloud. 'I've nowt on me not a farden, he answered, in a strong grating voice.
'I dinna suppose she wud ha'e treated ye excep' she had mair money nor brains. 'She wud pairt wi' her last farden for ma sake! 'Ach, awa' an' eat grass! It's weel seen that men are scarce the noo. 'Mind wha ye're insultin'! 'I'm gaun up to the billet. Macgregor said, shortly, and walked off. Presently, Willie, a new idea in his busy brain, overtook him.
My eggs are gone, I tell you, and who should take 'em but that lad, I'd like to know? 'Them was two rotten nest-eggs as I throwed away when I was cleaning the stable. 'Who told you to put in your word, John Farden? screamed Mrs. Shepherd, turning on him. 'Ye'd best mind what ye're about, or ye'll be after him soon. 'No loss neither, muttered John, stopping to pick up his shovel.
"`Now, darlint, says I, `everybody knows yer aisy frightened about ghosts. I don't belave in one meself, an' I don't mind 'em a farden dip; but av all the ghosts in Ireland haunted ye, I'd niver give ye up. "`Will ye come an' see it this night? says she.
You remember Antony Cusack, that ran away from me wid seventy-three pounds fifteen shillin's an' nine pence, now betther than nine years ago. Many a curse he had from me for his roguery; but somehow, it seems he only thruv under them. His son Andy called on me yestherday mornin' an' paid me to the last farden, inthrest an' all. Wasn't I in luck?"
Kybird dropped her work and sat staring at him, while her husband wriggled with excitement. "'E ain't left it to me, I s'pose?" he said, with a feeble attempt at jocularity. "Not a brass farden," replied his friend, cheerfully. "Not to none of you. Why should 'e? "He ain't left it to Jack, I s'pose?" said Miss Kybird, who had suspended her work to listen.
I do not surely mean to detract from him, who set all this spirit on float, but you see we can conquer, though Mr. Pitt is at his plough. Had I Hanover, Bremen, and Verden And likewise the Duchy of Zell, I would part with them all for a farden, Compared with sweet Molly Lepel. The express arrived while the Duke de Nivernois was at dinner with Lord Bute.
"And it's all right," replied the other. "Well, as I was going to say, that Mrs. Mainwaring is breakin' her heart about this unforthunate marriage of her daughter to Scareman. It seems but this is between ourselves it seems, my dear, that he's a dark, hard-hearted scrub, that 'id go to hell or farther for a shillin', for a penny, ay, or for a farden.
"Ah! `that's just w'ere the shoe pinches' as a old gen'leman shouted to me t'other day, with a whack of his umbreller, w'en I scrubbed 'is corns too hard. `Right you are, old stumps, says I, `but you'll have to pay tuppence farden hextra for that there whack, or be took up for assault an' battery. D'you know that gen'leman larfed, he did, like a 'iaena, an' paid the tuppence down like a man.
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