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The watercourse lifted up its voice in the silence, and talked foolishly to the rocks. Now and again the dull thump of a blasting charge three miles away told that the Aurangabadis were in difficulties with their road-making. The men smiled as they listened and lay still, soaking in the warm leisure. Presently Learoyd, between the whiffs of his pipe
Sure the Blessed Virgin is the mother of all religion an' most women; an' there's a dale av piety in a girl if the men would only let ut stay there. I'd ha' been converted myself under the circumstances. 'Nay, but, pursued Learoyd with a blush, 'I meaned it. Ortheris laughed as loudly as he dared, having regard to his business at the time.
"'Bin to a bloomin' sing-song, you two?" said the Artilleryman, who was taking his cartridge down to the Morning Gun, "You're over merry for these dashed days." "I bid ye take care o' the brat," said he, "For it comes of a noble race" Learoyd bellowed. The voices died out in the swimming-bath. "Oh, Terence!"
"It's Sam Learoyd," the man replied, "and he wants to know if onybody's wantin' to buy his dowter." "Black Sam o' Fieldhead Farm! By Gow! I reckon he's bin crazed sin his missus left him for t' barman. But he hasn't gotten no dowters, nor sons nowther. It'll be his stepdowter, Mary Whittaker, that he's browt to market."
It is the easiest thing in the world to score off a bull-dog, they are simply the stupidest men in the world." "He must have got a long way past Iffley by now," Collier said. "I don't care where he is, but I shall have to look out that he doesn't get level with me," Dennison replied. "You will always have to wear a cap and gown now," Learoyd remarked. But Dennison took no notice of this advice.
I should ha' comminst wid an explanation; but Jock, dear, on your sowl are ye fit, think you, for the finest fight that iver was betther than fightin' me? Considher before ye answer." More than ever puzzled, Learoyd turned round two or three times, felt an arm, kicked tentatively, and answered, "Ah'm fit." He was accustomed to fight blindly at the bidding of the superior mind.
Six months Tom Parfitt waited to see whether Learoyd would make any attempt to recover the stepdaughter whom he had wronged, and then, as the farmer made no move, he quietly married Mary Whittaker at the Primitive Methodist Chapel. Years passed away and a gradual change came over the character of the social and economic life of Holmton.
She went out through the orchard into the Back Lane. She could see Nannie Learoyd sitting on the stone stairs of Horn's granary, waiting for young Horn to come round the corner of his yard. Perhaps they would go up into the granary and hide under the straw. She turned into the field track to the schoolhouse and the highway. In the dark bottom the river lay like a broad, white, glittering road.
After which we played a handkerchief game sitting in a row and pelting the girls with a knotted handkerchief and then fighting for it During one of these scrimmages Mulvaney, two others and Learoyd came by and with eyes front and hands at their caps marched on with stolid countenances, but their officers were embarrassed.
"I had my pick o' you two," he explained to Learoyd, "and you got my palanquin not before I'd made my profit on it. Why'd I do harm when everything's settled? Your man did come here drunk as Davy's sow on a frosty night came a-purpose to mock me stuck his head out of the door an' called me a crucified hodman. I made him drunker, an' sent him along. But I never touched him."
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