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"Never you mind, only I am an' no man can say honester or fairer, an' I'm a-goin' t' do my best for ye because, bein' the son o' my blessed mother, I'm that tender-'earted that, though I'm th' son o' my feyther I've knowed myself to drop a tear in the very act o' business.
The old man started and moved towards her, eagerly, his keen eyes breaking through the film that at times obscured them. "'Merrikan! tha baist 'Merrikan? Then tha knaws ma son John, 'ee war nowt but a bairn when brether Dick took un to 'Merriky! Naw! Now! that wor fifty years sen! niver wroate to his old feyther niver coomed back, 'Ee wor tall-loike, an' thea said 'e feavored mea."
'I don't think it can be true, then, about the brook, said the boy, 'because Cromwell won, and everybody who was on his side had their own way. Mr. Greenfell teaches history at school, and he says so. This was nothing to Ichabod, whose intellect was not constructed for the reception of historical evidences. 'Then ax thy feyther, Master Richard, he answered; 'he'll tell thee the rights on it.
His gaze was directed over the array of heads in front to where, beyond the Silver Lea, a group of shepherds and their dogs was clustered. While standing apart from the rest, in characteristic isolation, was the bent figure of his father, and beside him the Tailless Tyke. "Doest'o not want yo' feyther to win?" asked Maggie softly, following his gaze.
'Well, wench! and has ta bought this grand new cloak? 'Yes, feyther. It's a scarlet one. 'Ay, ay! and what does mother say? 'Oh, mother's content, said Sylvia, a little doubting in her heart, but determined to defy Philip at all hazards. 'Mother 'll put up with it if it does na spot would be nearer fact, I'm thinking, said Bell, quietly. 'I wanted Sylvia to take the gray, said Philip.
"You don't appear, madam, to entertain a sufficiently accurate estimate of high life. "I beg pardon, ma'am, but I think I can understand 'igh life as well as those that don't know it better nor myself. I've seen a great deal of 'igh life. Feyther 'ad a willar at I'gate, and I'gate is known to be the 'igh-est place about the metropolis of Lunnon it and St. Paul's are upon a bevel."
Lisbeth sat down on the chopping bench and began to cry, and by the time she had cried enough to make her voice very piteous, she burst out into words. "Nay, my lad, my lad, thee wouldstna go away an' break thy mother's heart, an' leave thy feyther to ruin. Thee wouldstna ha' 'em carry me to th' churchyard, an' thee not to follow me.
"Polly, my dear," the sick woman said to her one afternoon when the girl had been reading to her for some time, and was now busy mending some of the boys' clothes, while baby, nearly a year old, was gravely amusing herself with a battered doll upon the floor, "I used to think, though I never said so, as your feyther war making a mistake in bringing you up different to other gals here; but I see as he was right.
Silas would repeat solemnly. "An' it's gone ever since!" old Jasper would croak triumphantly. "Oh! 'e were a gen'us were my bye Jarge. 'Ell come a-marchin' back to 'is old feyther, some day, wi' 'is pockets stuffed full o' money an' bank-notes I knaw I knaw, old Jasper bean't a fule."
"He was an unco wild lad, nae doobt, but his feyther kenned naething about his pranks, and sae the least said, sunest mended," said the landlord. And thus, by the pranks of his "double," the reputation of the excellent young Marquis of Arondelle suffered among his own people. But a crisis was at hand.
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