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He says to me th' other mornin', says he, "Well, Bates, what do you think of your young misthress as is to be?" An' I says, "Whay, yer honour, I think she's as fain a lass as iver I set eyes on; an' I wish the Captain luck in a fain family, an' your honour laife an' health to see't." Mr. Warren says as the masther's all for forrardin' the weddin', an' it'll very laike be afore the autumn's oot.
Stalky pointed to the unconscious Tulke. "He've niver been kissed by no sort or manner o' maid in hees borned laife, Mary. Oh, 'tees shaamful!" "Whutt's to do with me? 'Twill come to 'un in the way o' nature, I rackon." She nodded her head sagaciously. "You niver want me to kiss un sure-ly?" "Give 'ee half-a-crown if 'ee will," said Stalky, exhibiting the coin.
But we always saw that she smoothed her apron, and did her hair up afterwards, and that Mistress Fry went home at night with a cold pig's foot or a bowl of dripping. "Wi' all the plaisure in laife, my zon," he answered very graciously, thinking perhaps that I was prepared to speak concerning Sally.
'Wutt handsome manners thee hast gat, Jan, to spake so well of thy waife laike; after arl the laife she leads thee! 'Putt thee pot on the fire, old 'ooman, and bile thee own bakkon, John answered her, very sharply: 'nobody no raight to meddle wi' a man's bad ooman but himzell.
When driven home to sties somewhat more comfortable than the cabins of unfortunate Irishmen, they were well supplied with food which would have been very often considered a luxury by poor Paddy himself, much less by his pigs. "Measter," said the man who had seen them fed, "them there Hirish pigs ha' not feasted nout for a moonth yet: they feade like nout I seed o' my laife!!"
It was Providence who sent him back to me from the storm and fog. Don't be angry." "Angry, child!" said the old man, almost lifting himself up in his bed; "why Ay'm tarnished if anything so jolly ever happened in may laife before. And to think we have dodged the old father! and the old uncle!
"Wutt handsome manners thee hast gat, Jan, to spake so well of thy waife laike; after arl the laife she leads thee!" "Putt thee pot on the fire, old 'ooman, and bile thee own bakkon," John answered her, very sharply: "nobody no raight to meddle wi' a man's bad ooman but himzell.
Mother used to answer 'Oh fie, Mistress Fry! be good enough to mind your own business. But we always saw that she smoothed her apron, and did her hair up afterwards, and that Mistress Fry went home at night with a cold pig's foot or a bowl of dripping. 'Wi' all the plaisure in laife, my zon, he answered very graciously, thinking perhaps that I was prepared to speak concerning Sally.
'God A'maighty bless ye both, an' send ye long laife an' happiness, were the good gardener's rather tremulous words. 'Thank you, uncle Bates; always remember Tina, said the sweet low voice, which fell on Mr. Bates's ear for the last time. The wedding journey was to be a circuitous route to Shepperton, where Mr. Gilfil had been for several months inducted as vicar.
The knight, snatching the letter with the utmost avidity, broke it up, and found the contents couched in these terms: "HONOURED SIR, The man az gi'en me leave to lat yaw knaw my dear leady is going to Loondon with her unkle Squaire Darnel. Be not conzarned, honoured sir, vor I'se take it on mai laife to let yaw knaw wheare we be zettled, if zobe I can vind where you loadge in Loondon.
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