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Unto each he made some kindly remark also to the good man a commendation of his careful farming, to the good-wife a deserved compliment on her butter; the eldest daughter was praised for the way in which she was sustaining the ancient reputation of Hillocks' dairy; there was a word to Hillocks' son on his masterly ploughing; and some good word of Dominie Jamieson's about the little lassie was not forgotten.
When they parted Gustavus gave him a silver dagger, saying gratefully: "If God helps me, seek me, and I will richly repay you for your aid." As night came on he sought quarters in a road-side cottage, and as he sat before the fire in the evening the good-wife said to him: "Young man, make me some pudding skewers, since you have nothing else to do."
When she reached Captain Isaac Lovejoy's house, next to the meeting house in the North Precinct of Braintree, stumbling blindly into the warm, lighted kitchen, the captain and the doctor could hardly believe their senses. She told the doctor about Thirsey; then she almost fainted from cold and exhaustion. Good-wife Lovejoy laid her on the settee, and brewed her some hot herb tea.
But Peer called the pock-marked good-wife at Troen "mother" and her bandy-legged husband "father," and lent the old man a hand wherever he was wanted in the smithy or in the boats at the fishing. His childhood was passed among folk who counted it sinful to smile, and whose minds were gloomy as the grey sea-fog with poverty, psalm-singing, and the fear of hell.
"Not just now," said Donald. "Put out that long grey tether, the MacGregor wife," said he. "I don't think I'll do that tonight," said Donald. "Come out yourself, then," said the bocan, "and leave your bonnet." The good-wife, thinking that the bocan was outside and would not hear her, whispered in Donald's ear as he was rising, "Won't you ask him when the Prince will come?"
He described his wife as being sorely attacked and striving violently with her arms and legs, and presently she would begin to converse with Good-wife Nurse, saying: "Goody Nurse, begone! begone! begone! Are you not ashamed, a woman of your profession, to afflict a poor creature so? What hurt did I ever do you in my life?
He had come to himself again, in solitude, by nights, as a man awakened from a feverish dream; and the hallowing ministrations of her company by day had blest reflective solitude with sympathy and counsel. Good-wife Mary, too, had been his comforting and cheering friend.
An hour before midnight, feeling it rankle intolerably, I suppose, he sprang up on a sudden, dragged the door open, darted out with the air of a madman, and in a moment was lost in the darkness of the moor. When I rose in the morning, therefore, I found him gone, the strollers looking glum, and the good-wife and her girl between tears and reproaches.
The melancholy child attracted the attention of Good-wife Nurse, who asked her to her house and brought her a mug of fresh milk. "Do you belong here?" asked Goody Nurse. "I suppose we do," was the answer. "Father is here part of the time." "And your mother?" "I have none." "Did she die in England?" "Alas, I know not." "Do you remember seeing her?"
I cannot see that men are any better off now than they were when they never troubled themselves about such things. I think it was a far better life when men were heathens; and now I want my food, and no nonsense. The good-wife answered: 'I am sure you will come to sorrow to-day if you act thus perversely'. "Glam bade her bring his food at once, or it would be the worse for her.
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