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He had learnt more than he had ever known, or she had ever known, of the oppression that the farmer and his wife and Tom Boldre had practised on the friendless stranger, and he was burning with all the keen generous displeasure of one new to such base ways. At the gate he had met, going home to dinner, John Farden with Mrs. Hayward, who had been charing at the farm.
He was a child of God, if no other owned him. 'Whoy, said Farden, much as he might have spoken to his horse, 'rum sort of a head thou'st got! Thee'll never go up to Bishop such a guy! 'Can't help it, said Paul rather sullenly; 'it ain't the clothes that God looks at. John scanned him all over, with his face looking more foolish than ever in the puzzle he felt.
To this Mr Codlin, who had a surly, grumbling manner, replied, as he twitched Punch off the tombstone and flung him into the box, 'I don't care if we haven't lost a farden, but you're too free. If you stood in front of the curtain and see the public's faces as I do, you'd know human natur' better. 'Ah! it's been the spoiling of you, Tommy, your taking to that branch, rejoined his companion.
"He wouldn't leave me alone," says Posh. "It was 'yew must ax yar faa'er this, an' yew must let yar mother that, and yew mustn't dew this here, nor yit that theer. At last I up an' says, 'Theer! I ha' paid ivery farden o' debts. Look a here. Here be the receipts. Now I'll ha'e no more on it. And I slammed my fist down like this here." "'Oh dear! oh dear, Posh! says he.
'That's the pint, sir, interposed Sam; 'out vith it, as the father said to his child, when he swallowed a farden. 'We want to know, in the first place, said Mr. Pickwick, 'whether you have any reason to be discontented with your present situation. 'Afore I answers that 'ere question, gen'l'm'n, replied Mr.
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.
Why, I wouldn't give a chip of a brass farden for a pipe now, an' as to grog, after what I've seen of its cursed natur', I wouldn't taste a drop even if they was to offer to make me Lord High Admiral o' the British fleet for so doin'. But I would like once more to see a bearded man; even an unbearded one would be better than nothin'. Ah, well, it's no manner o' use sighin', any more than cryin', over spilt milk.
Bayne; and you were wonderful. You must have thought I was mad, but you didn't flutter an eyelid or even smile. I have never forgotten and I've never forgiven myself either. When I think of how the steward saw you and told the captain, and of how they searched your baggage that dreadful day " "It didn't matter a brass farden!"
There was a glistening in his eyes; and he moved his head so as to sign down- stairs, as he said, 'I didn't think there was ne'er a one in the world like her. 'What, Mrs. King? I don't think there are many, said Mr. Cope warmly. 'And yet I hope there are. 'Ay, Sir, said Paul fervently. 'And there's Harold, and John Farden, and all the chaps.
They both paused to listen, but no car was audible. "I do not," replied the niece; "but isn't it odd that he lets her carry the money, an' him trates her so badly'?" "Why would it be odd? Sure, she takes betther care of it, an' puts it farther than he does. His heart's in a farden, the nager." "Rody an' the other will soon spare her that trouble, any way," replied the niece.
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