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You take my word, Martha next time she gives you a gownd, you give it back to her and say as you don't wear such things, being a respectable woman. It äun't right, starting you like that on bad ways." There was only one house in the joint parishes where Joanna had any honourable mention, and that was North Farthing House on the other side of the Kent Ditch.
I've comed into a mort of money, my Uncle Ford bein' suddenly dead." "Oh, Will, I could a'most jump out the window!" "'T would be easier for me to come up-long." "No, no; not for the world, Will!" "Why for not? An' you that lovely, twinklin' in your white gownd, an' me your lawful husband, an' a man o' money! Damned if I ain't got a mind to climb up by the pear-tree!" "You mustn't, you mustn't!
I warrant she fancies she did a mighty matter, when she sent us that old gownd; some of my family would not have picked up such rags in the street; but poor people are always trampled upon. The parish need not have been in such a fluster with Molly. You might have told them, child, your grandmother wore better things new out of the shop."
'Because I say so. 'But why so far, whatever? she asked amazedly. 'Because I want you to. 'But I mun go to chapel along of Ed'ard, and sing 'ymns proper wi' the folks and me singing higher nor any of them can go, for all I'm new to it and the old lady' her face grew mischievous 'the old lady in a shiny silk gownd as creaks and creaks when she stirs about! Reddin lost patience.
Patches of dead-white, looking not unlike paint, covered it about on all sides, especially behind. The shawl had caught some white, too, and the green leather gloves looked, inside, as though they had had a coat of whitewash put on them. Her beautiful gownd! laid by so long! what on earth had ruined it like that? Chuff, the blacksmith, gave a great grin from his window.
Joanna's voice dragged ominously with patience "the same shade as your last night's gownd, which is the colour of the mould on jam? I'll have the colours I like in my own house I'm sick of your dentical, die-away notions.
Hazel was too wrathful for consideration. 'You look right tidy in that gownd, Abel said. 'I 'spose you'll be wearing it to the meeting up at the Mountain? 'What meeting? 'Didna I tell you I'd promised you for it to sing? They'm after me to take the music and play. Hazel forgot everything in delight. 'Be we going for certain sure? she asked. 'Ah! Next Monday three weeks. 'We mun practise.
"Cos," says Jo with a perplexed stare but without being at all shaken in his certainty, "cos that there's the wale, the bonnet, and the gownd. It is her and it an't her. It an't her hand, nor yet her rings, nor yet her woice.
Gilbert laughed heartily, but he hardly seemed satisfied with the explanation. "You're all of a tremble," he said. "Am I? Well, it's likely, and my gownd all over mud; but there's one favor I want to ask o' you, and no common one, neither, namely, the loan of a horse for a week or so." "A horse?" Gilbert repeated. "A horse.
Both were relieved when Betsy Lavender made her appearance, saying, "Let down your gownd, Sally, and give me that ladle. What'd be a mighty heap o' work for you, in that flustered condition, is child's-play to the likes o' me, that's as steady as a cart-horse, not that self-praise, as the sayin' is, is any recommendation, but my kickin' and prancin' days is over, and high time, too."
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