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He held up his hand, struggled with his vocal organs and at last exploded these words, sudden, tremulous, and shrill: "I deny it an' I defy it! The wummon be mine!" Mr. Lezzard succumbed instantly after this effort. Indeed, he went down as though shot through the head. He wagged and gasped and whispered to his grandson, "Wheer's the brandy to?"

"Let 's go round this way," he said. "Why? Ban't your auld bones ready for bed yet? Theer 's nought theer but starlight an' frost." "Be gormed to the frost! I laugh at it. Ban't that. 'T is the Union workhouse, wheer auld Lezzard lies. I likes to pass, an' nod to un as he sits on the lew side o' the wall in his white coat, chumping his thoughts between his gums."

By this time the gate of the orchard was reached; Gaffer Lezzard, Billy, and the other patriarch, Mr. Chapple, a very fat old man, loaded their weapons, and the perspiring cider-carriers set down their loads. "Now, you bwoys, give awver runnin' 'bout like rabbits," cried out Mr. Chapple.

My heart be pumping wind, lifeless wind; my lung-play's gone, tu, an' my sight's come awver that coorious. Be Gaffer Lezzard nigh?" "Here, alongside 'e, Bill." "Gimme your hand then, an' let auld scores be wiped off in this shattering calamity. Us have differed wheer us could these twoscore years; but theer mustn't be no more ill-will wi' me tremblin' on the lip o' the graave."

"Be gormed if ban't a 'mazin' world! She've left nought dammy less than nought, for the house be mortgaged sea-deep to Doctor, an' theer's other debts. Not a penny for nobody nothin' but empty bottles an' to think as I thought so poor o' God as to say theer weern't none! What a ramshackle plaace the world is!" "No money at all? Mrs. Lezzard it can't be!" declared Mr. Lyddon. "But it is, by gum!

She stopped and laughed, then drank. Presently setting down the glass again, she leered in a manner frankly animal at Mr. Blee, and told him to say what he might have to say and be quick about it. He fired a little at this invitation, licked his lips, cleared his throat, and cast a nervous glance or two at the window. But nobody appeared; no thunder-visaged Lezzard frowned over the geraniums.

The Maister Grimbals, as will be related to the family presently, be comin' to see the custom, an' Miller wants every man to step back-along arterwards an' have a drop o' the best, 'cordin' to his usual gracious gudeness. Now, Lezzard, me an' you'll lead the way." Mr.

Lezzard sank under ground within four days of her dissolution; then, after the eating of funeral baked meats, those interested assembled in the parlour to hear the will. The crowd whispered and growled, and looked gloomily across at Hicks and the little figure of his mother who had come in rusty black to witness his triumph.

If so, surely reason must banish such folly before another dawn and send him hot-foot at daybreak to the Red House. He would wait and watch himself and see. His reflections were here cut short, for a shrill voice broke in upon them, and Clement, now within a hundred yards of his own cottage door, saw Mr. Lezzard before him. "At last I've found 'e! Been huntin' this longful time, tu.

"Not but what 't would be a lonesome plaace wi'out the lords of creation," conceded the widow. "Ess fay, you 'm right theer; but the beauty of things is that none need n't be lonely, placed same as you be." "'Once bit twice shy," said Mrs. Coomstock. Then she laughed again. "I said them very words to Lezzard not an hour since."

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