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Updated: May 3, 2025
My best stockings!" said Ailwin, half crying. "You have saved your cherry-brandy, my woman, that is certain," observed one of Gool's men. "I shall never have any pleasure in it," sighed the maid. "I shall never enjoy it on account of its reminding me how yon woman has fooled me." "Then we will save you that pain," said the man.
When the boys at length appeared, to say how hungry they were, they burst in more like two schoolfellows who have been trying a new game, than little lads on whom others were depending for subsistence in the midst of a heavy calamity. Oliver told that among the many things which the current brought from poor neighbour Gool's, was a lot of harness from his stables.
Look at the little speck of a hillock, where neighbour Gool's house was. We could not see that this morning, I am sure. And if you will come down, you will find that there is scarcely any water in the upper rooms now. Geordie might play at paddling there, as he is so fond of doing in his tub. Ailwin thinks we might sleep there to-night, if we could only get everything dried."
"We must want a wise head or two among us," said the vexed miller. "If we were as sharp as these times require, we surely could not be at the mercy of folk we should scorn to be like. We must give more heed and see what is to be done." "Rather late for that, neighbour, when here is the stock you were grinding and grinding for a week, all gone to plaster," said one of Gool's men.
Neighbour Gool's dwelling stood low; and nothing was now to be seen of it but a dark speck, which might be the top of a chimney. It was possible that the whole family might have escaped; for Gool and his wife were to be at Haxey yesterday; and they might there hear of the mischief intended or done to the sluices, in time to save the rest of the household.
This caused Ailwin's eyes to fill at the thought of her stockings and cloak, so that the family faces looked cheerless enough. "We deserve it all," said Mrs Linacre, "for leaving our place and our children to the care of Gool's men, or of anybody but ourselves. I will go no more to the spring. I have been out of my duty; and we may be thankful that we have been no further punished."
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