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Hannah looked at him, as he lay lazily back on his father's arm; his fair curls straying over David's coat, his cheek flushed by the heat. 'Aye, he's a gradely little chap, she said, more graciously it seemed to David than he ever remembered to have heard Hannah Grieve speak before. His paternal vanity was instantly delighted.
I feel sure I can't tell you why, but I do feel sure that the Lord'll bring back your Sammul again. He'll turn up some day, take my word for it. "God bless you," said Johnson, squeezing Ned's hand hard; "you're a gradely comforter." And so they parted. It was not long, however, before Thomas's patience was tried to the uttermost.
I wished to be as dead to all as had gone before. It were the third day arter I left Langhurst that I got to Liverpool. I were very foot-sore, and almost famished to death, for I hadn't had a gradely meal since I left home.
He'd had a cottage of his own afore, with a housekeeper to look arter him." "And is your squire, Mr Collington, a total abstainer?" "Ay, he is, for sure, and a gradely 'un too. He's owner of most of the land and houses here. The whole village belongs to him; and he'll not have a drop of intoxicating drinks sold in it. You passed the public. You heard no swearing nor rowing, I'll warrant.
A roar of laughter greeted these words, but nobody had the courage to make a bid. Seeing that purchasers held back, Learoyd after the manner of an auctioneer, proceeded to announce his stepdaughter's "points." "Shoo's a gradely lass, I tell you, for all shoo looks sae dowly. Shoo can bak an' shoo can brew, and I've taen care that shoo'll noan speyk while shoo's spoken to."
"Well," said his wife, soothingly, "you must go your own way; only, if you keep a-fretting of that fashion, you'll not be able to do your work gradely, and then we shall all have to starve, and that'll be worse for you still." "Better starve," replied her husband moodily, "nor ruin body and soul with the drink; I'll have no more of it."
I've prayed, and fayther's prayed too, scores of times; and he's had more faith nor me though we've both begun to lose heart but we've never forgot ye, Sammul. Oh, I shall be happy now. "And he's a total abstainer," said Samuel, "and, he humbly hopes, a gradely Christian." "Oh, that's best, that's best of all," cried his sister, again throwing her arms around him.
No one could say but what her master had a gradely buryin'. She could not repress a certain honest pride, and, oddly enough, though the neighbours were quite aware that without their assistance this desirable appearance would never have been presented, they were none the less impressed, and felt that Mrs. deserved great credit.
"Thomas is not the chap to be scared out of what he's made up his mind to." "No," remarked another; "and there's many a one as'd stand by him if we were to try anything strong." "Can't we shame him at the meeting?" asked another. "Nay," said Jones, "he's gradely. You couldn't shame him by telling folks what he was; and all as knows him knows as he's kept his teetottal strict enough."
You may scold us if you will, but Sammul and I must keep our pledge, and keep it gradely too." "And I say," cried her father, striking his hand violently on the table, "I'll make you both break afore ye're a day older; ye've pleased yourselves long enough, but ye shall please me now.
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