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"Then," said Saunders, slapping the table solemnly, "theer's nobbut one more thing to say an' sorry I am to say it. Them coins, Isaac" he pointed a slow finger at Bessie, whose white, fierce face moved involuntarily "them 'arf-crowns wor paid across the bar lasst night, or the night afore, at Dawson's, by yor wife, as is now stannin' there, an' she'll deny it if she can!"
All this Charlotte Bronte's townswoman told simply and garrulously, but she told it well because she had felt and seen. 'She wor so sma' and nesh; nowt but a midge. Theer was no lasst in her. Aye, when I heerd the bell tolling for Miss Charlotte that Saturday mornin, said the speaker, shaking her head as she moved away towards the church, 'I cud ha sat down an cried my eyes out.
"Arthur, where's your mother?" said John, at last able to walk firmly up to the door. "Don' know." "When did yer see her lasst?" "She wor 'ere gettin' us our tea," said another child; "but she didn't eat nothin'." John impatiently pushed the children before him back into the kitchen. "You 'old your tongues," he said, "an' stay 'ere." And he made for the door in the kitchen wall.
He finally hit upon the naïve device of adding words of his own in the form of a recitative, which first appears in the sketch-book as, "Let us sing the immortal Schiller's Song, 'Freude schöner Götterfunken." This was afterward changed to the much better form as now appears, "O Freunde, nicht diese Töne! sondern lasst uns angenehmere anstimmen, und freudenvollere."
During the last year the "Letters of Bergmann" brought up again the controversy, that should have been left to die, over the treatment of the Emperor Friedrich by an English surgeon. The Germans are persistently taught that there are neither scholars nor students in America or in England. One worthy writes: "Die Engländer lernen nichts. Der Sport lässt ihnen keine Zeit dazu.
'Yo're lyin, he cried; 'yer want to throw it off on some one. How cud Timothy 'ave 'ad anythin to do with John's money? Timothy's not been near the place this three months. 'Not till lasst night, she said, mocking him; 'I'll grant yer not till lasst night. But it do 'appen, as lasst night Timothy took forty-one pound o' John Borroful's money out o' that box, an got off clean.
"An I'm allus thinkin," she said, with a passionate sob, "of that what he said about the drink. He'd allus bin a sober lad, till this lasst winter it did seem as though he cudna keep hiself from it it kep creepin on im an several times lately he'd broke out very bad, pay-days an he knew I'd been frettin. And who was ter blame I ast yo, or onybody who was it ter blame?"
And she laid her hand on her aunt's knee with a smile in which there was the slightest touch of affectionate satire. 'I was up among the fells the other day' she went on 'I met an elderly man cutting wood in a plantation, and I stopped and asked him how he was. "Ah, miss," he said, "verra weel, verra weel. And yet it was nobbut Friday morning lasst, I cam oop here, awfu' bad in my sperrits like.
The Kroo men hacked the wooden sides to pieces in three minutes, and the mooring-chain sank with the lasst splinters of wood. Bai-Jove Judson laid the flat-iron carefully over the site, while Mr. Davies watched, biting his nails nervously. "Can you back her against this current?" said Bai-Jove-Judson. Mr.
'Don't you try to hustle-bustle me like you're doin', say my missus sharp-like to a Labour chap as coom round lasst week, 'cos yo' won't get nothin' by it. And she worn't no more forthcomin' to the Conservative man when ee called." "Will she do what you tell her, Batts?" asked Halsey, with an evident interest in the question. "Oh, Lord, no!" said Batts placidly, "shan't try.
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