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Varra careless of him to ha' left it so long! aw mine wor safe i't' fold by fower o'clock. An' I thowt, miss, as I'd mak bold, afore goin' back to t' farm, to coom an' ast yo, if t' yoong leddy got safe hoam this afternoon?
I've met young chaps to-day I could ha' sworn to for mates of mine forty years back if I hadn't ha' been i't' churchyard spelling over their fathers' tumstuns!" "Aye. There's a many old standards gone home o' lately." "What do they call him?" "T' young chap?" "Aye." "They call him Darwin." "Dar win? I should known a Darwin. They're old standards, is Darwins.
Old age and infirmity, too, had found Ruth out, in her penurious obscurity; and she was disposed to complain a little, like Nan, sometimes, of "the ills that flesh is heir to:" "Fro' t' wind i't stomach, rheumatism, Tengin pains i't gooms, An' coughs, an' cowds, an' t' spine o't back, I suffer martyrdom.