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"That be so, surely," went up in a general chorus, and then a newcomer who had just entered the room said: "Oi ha' joost coom vrom Nance's and Bill Swinton ha' sent in a basin o' soup as he got vrom the feyther o' that boy as broke his leg. Nance war a feeding the child wi' it, and maybe it will do her good. He ha' been moighty koind to Bill, that chap hav."
But before he left the field he made one other speech to the squire. 'You ain't a'taken it amiss, squoire, 'cause he was coosin to yourself? 'Not in the least, Mr Crumb. 'That's koind now.
He wur a bright, handsome chap, as won his way ivverywheer, an' had a koind word or a laugh fur aw. So he gave th' lass a smile, an' did her a favor now and then loike as not without givin' it more than a thowt until she learned to live on th' hope o' seein' him. An', bein' weak an' tender, it grew on her fro' day to day, until it seemt to give th' strength to her an' tak' it both i' one."
The big hands of the soldier moved restlessly on the quilt. "Aw, it's the koind av ye!" said Kilquhanity, with difficulty, out of the half shadows. The Avocat took one burning hand in both of his, held it for a moment, and pressed it two or three times. He did not know what to say.
"You'll not be roastin' by the stove no more this summer," observed Pat. The widow came out. She looked at the rough roof supported by the four scantlings, and then at her boys. "Sure, 'tis a nice, airy kitchen, so it is," she said. "And as for the surprise, 'tis jist the koind of a wan your father was always thinkin' up. As you say, I'll not be roastin' no more.
The pay is fifty cents a month for drivin' a cow out in the mornin' and drivin' it back at night, and them drivin' b'ys runs 'em till the folks, many of 'em, is wantin' a different koind of b'ys. Now what if I could get about ten cows, and put Andy and Jim to drive 'em turn about, wan out and the other back. Wouldn't that be a good thing?
We'd take it wery koind on 'em, wouldn't us? Wery koind, upon my word, us would? He has a quick sense of a dog in the vicinity, and will extend his modestly-injured propitiation to the dog chained up in your yard; remarking, as he slinks at the yard gate, 'Ah! You are a foine breed o' dog, too, and YOU ain't kep for nothink!
He do say he is a gardener." "A likely tale!" ejaculated the sexton. "Look at his hands. Why, his fingers are delicate and white. Your gardener has horny fingers, and a palm of iron." "Dang it! so they be!" cried Ellis. "Well, I never noticed that afore. Whoy, dame, he may be an impostor And though he be so cruel koind, and deadly fond of the girl, now, he may forsake may "
"Keep low," ordered Mahon, crawling forward, "and quiet." "The m'anest koind o' foighting I iver took a hand in, it is," grumbled Murphy, shaking the sand from his whiskers. But he fastened his eyes to the dim movement of Constable Williams' heels and crawled after him.
Besides, sistur wull break her heart if she doan't say `Good-bye, Reuben' if feyther has made it up, sure other folk mought be koind. Oh, ay but I've been a sad fellow!" And then he began to blubber with fresh violence.
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