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Anna was silent, but there were tears, and as I held her in my arms and kissed them away Jamie was saying to Withero: "Ye might take 'im fur a dandther out where ye broke whin we first met ye, Willie!" "Aye," Willie said, "I'm m' own gaffer, I will that."
Old Gaffer White had muttered something to Gossip Heartley, which Dick the Tanner overheard, wherein Tom Acton and a gun, and Burke, and burglary, and throats cut, and bags of gold, were conspicuous ingredients: so that Roger Acton's own dear Tom, that eagle-eyed and handsome better image of himself, stood accused, before his quailing father's face, of robbery and murder.
"Answer on your conscience, though it be but a leaden one. Do not you know that he hath lost a good penny?" "Why, I believe he may," said Gaffer Ditchley. "What then! lose to-day, win to-morrow the miner must eat in the meantime." "True; but what will you eat when Master Bridgenorth gets the land, that will not hear of a mine being wrought on his own ground?
"Eih?" he said again, and stared with open mouth and fierce, dark eyes. "Hurry up, Peter," whispered the gaffer, "hurry up, for God sake. He has the black glower in his een." "Ready, sir; ready now!" cried Peter Riney, running out to open the other half of the gate.
He mopped his brimming eyes with a handful of cotton waste, not innocent of lubricating fluid. "Tower av Ivory! 'twas grand to see the contimpt av thim when the cowards widin did not reply. 'Donder! says the gaffer in the tay-thray hat and the beard like the grandfather av all the billygoats. 'Is this, he says, 'the British pluck they talk about?
She went into the scullery, drew the door after her, sat down, and hid her face in her apron. A stifled sob or two, and then she recovered her habitual gravity of expression, and continued her work as if nothing had happened. "They are just crazy about it upstairs. Ginger and the Gaffer are the worst. They say they had better sell the place and build another house somewhere else.
"Gaffer, dominie, whatever the damn you ca' him the fellow that runs the business." "The Headmaster!" said the janitor. "Heidmaister, ay," said Gourlay in scorn, and went trampling after the janitor down a long wooden corridor. A door was flung open showing a classroom where the Headmaster was seated teaching Greek.
'Well, Miss Abbey, respectfully meaning no offence to you, it would be some satisfaction to a man's mind, to understand why the Fellowship Porters is not to be free to such as me, and is to be free to such as Gaffer. The face of the hostess darkened with some shadow of perplexity, as she replied: 'Gaffer has never been where you have been. 'Signifying in Quod, Miss? Perhaps not.
"I thank you, sir," said the dame, "and wish you the like; but I dare not pledge you, for our Gaffer says that ale is brewed too strong for women; so I only drink a glass of canary at a time with a gossip, or any gentleman guest that is so minded." "You shall drink one with me, then, dame," said Peveril, "so you will let me have a flagon."
'tis a mere bedesman; and bending forward to pour a handful of silver into the beggar's cap, he said, 'Pray, Gaffer, pray pray for the dead and living, both. 'So, said James, as both mounted, 'there's a fee for a boding traitor. 'I knew his face, said Bedford, with a shudder; 'he belonged to Archbishop Scrope. 'A traitor, too, said James. 'Nay, there was too much cause for his words.
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