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"There was a mon in oor company," said the red-headed one, feeling it was his turn again, "that killed seven Jerrmans he shot six and baynitted anither. And he wur fair fou afterwards. He grat like a bairn." "Aye, mon," said a ruddy man of the Yorks L.I., "ah knaw'd ah felt mysen dafflin when ah saw me pal knocked over.
His fame was due to the perfection of a single book; he ranked as a potentate in STYLE. But literary perfection, whether in prose or poetry, is a fragile quality, an afflatus irregular, independent, unamenable to orders; the official tributes of a Laureate we compliment at their best with the northern farmer's verdict on the pulpit performances of his parson: "An' I niver knaw'd wot a mean'd but I thow't a 'ad summut to saay, And I thowt a said wot a owt to 'a said an' I comed awaay."
He comed fra oor toon, and he tellt me hissen the neet afore: 'Jock, 'e said, 'tha'll write to me wife, woan't tha? And ah said, 'Doan't be a fule, Ben, tha'll be all right. 'Noa, Jock, he tellt me, 'ah knaw'd afore ah left heeam ah should be killt. Ah saw a mouldiwarp dead afore oor door; me wife fair dithered when she saw't." The chaplain and myself looked puzzled.
The man sprang up in an instant, but instead of renewing the attack, to Oliver's surprise he came forward and held out his hand, which the youth was not unwilling to grasp. "Thank 'ee, sur," he said, somewhat sternly, "you've done me a sarvice; you've prevented me committin' two murders, an' taught me a lesson I never knaw'd afore that Jim Cuttance an't invulnerable.
The Gentleman." "You'll ha met him than, I expagt?" cooed the waterman in his cautious way. "He met me more like," replied Big Jerry with the grim humour of the whole-hearted man, who gives hard knocks and takes them all in good part. "Not but what we was expectin him, you'll understand." "You knaw'd he was comin than surely?" came the waterman's slow musical voice. "Know'd it!" roared the other.
I knaw'd his back, and the high way with his head at first onset. It was Black Diamond. "'Hullo, Bert, says I, coming up behind. "Round he jumps, terrible dark. "I'd hardly ha know'd him toff'd out quite the officer, bits of epaulettes, waxed moustachers, pistol and all. I'd never ha beleft it! "'That Reube? says he, at last, starin properly. "'That's me, sir, says I.
"He'll do; he's all right," said Oliver, on completing the work "only got a few cuts and bruises, and lost a little blood, but that won't harm him." The expression of anxiety that had appeared on the faces of those who stood around at once vanished on hearing these reassuring words. "I knaw'd it," said John Cock energetically. "I knaw'd he couldn't be killed not he."
"'The Emperor, says he, calm as you please. 'Nice feller, too. "I stared a bit. "'Knaw him then? says I. "'Supp'd with him night afore last, says he, matter-of-fact like; and I knaw'd he warn't lying 'Me and the Emperor and another gentleman. He began to laugh. 'Rare sport he was too, the gentleman! Hear him sauce the Emperor! Then he takes a sweeping look through his glass.
But Joltram remained where he was, standing erect, and surveying the scene like a heavily caparisoned charger scenting battle. "Tha's heerd Mizter Dubble's tale afore now, Pazon, hazn't tha?" he inquired. "M'appen tha knaw'd the little chap as Christ's man zent to prizon thysen?" Arbroath lifted his head haughtily.
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