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Updated: June 7, 2025
"What's the news there?" asked the other passenger, with an accent which the little dalesman was equally certain was not foreign to these parts. "Threed's up a gay penny!" said Reuben. "Any news at the Castle the day?" "The Castle? No that's to say, yes. I did hear 'at a man had given hissel' up, but I know nowt aboot it." "Do you know his name?" "No."
'I never thought yo'd be dining with Thorntons, repeated I Bessy. 'Why, the mayor hissel' dines there; and the members of Parliament and all. 'I think I could support the honour of meeting the mayor of Milton. 'But them ladies dress so grand! said Bessy, with an anxious look at Margaret's print gown, which her Milton eyes appraised at sevenpence a yard.
I reckon I thought he were i' London, wheere he'd been that time afore, yo' know, and had allays spoke as if he'd enjoyed hissel' tolerable; and then Molly Brunton told me on t' other one's marriage; and, somehow, it gave me a shake in my heart, and I began for to wish I hadn't said all them words i' my passion; and then that fine young lady come wi' her story and I've thought a deal on it since, and my mind has come out clear.
Robinson put in, 'an' the Kaiser hissel' couldna stop her, Still, Macgreegor, she's an auld frien', an' it wud be a peety to offend her. Ye'll be mair at hame there nor ye was at yer Aunt Purdie's swell affair. Dod, Lizzie, thon was a gorgeous banquet!
She took her hands off him, and the boy was going away in a half-sullen silence, when she caught him again. 'Who towd yo about 'Lias an t' Pool, nobbut 'Lias hissel? 'Uncle Reuben towd me summat. 'Aye, Reuben Grieve he put him in t' carrier's cart, an behaved moor like a Christian nor his wife I allus mind that o' Reuben Grieve, when foak coe him a foo.
Mrs. Robinson felt that it was perhaps just as well the two young people had not met that night, but refrained from saying so. 'Hoo dae ye think Macgreegor's lookin, John? she asked after a pause. 'I didna notice onything wrang wi' him. He hadna a great deal to say for hissel'; but that's naething new. Queer hoo a noisy, steerin' wean like he was, grows into a quiet, douce young man.
"Ye wad mak a swine laugh, ye wad," she said. Then, coming closer to where her son now stood with a "lash" comb in his hand before a scratched and faded mirror, she said under her breath, "There'll be no rest for him till summat's done, none; tak my word for that. But yance they hang some riff-raff for him it will soon be forgotten. Then all will be as dead as hissel', back and end.
But we're about through wi' this side, howivver." He pointed to the east wing. "One can see now what a jolly old place it is," said Tatham, pausing in the gateway to survey the scene. Backhouse grinned responsively. "I do believe, my lord, Muster Melrose hissel' is pleased. He stood a lang while lookin' at it this morning, afore he started oot."
'Well, he were awlus one for sleepin'. Th' owd felley would a slept on a clooas-line if he could a' fun nowhere else to lay hissel. But he'll sleep saander or ever naa. They'll bide some wakkenin' as sleep raand here, Mr. Penrose. Did he come in a yerst, or were he carried? 'He was carried, answered the minister, somewhat in uncertainty as to the meaning of the old woman's question.
But I've said my words to him hissel', and I'm noane going to make any plaint to others; only them as knows should judge.
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