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And in those silences your soul had to render up the truth to her, though it could never be the truth she sought. John looked at her awkwardly, and drummed with one foot on the limeash floor. "He wanted you to marry me," he blurted out. "I I reckon I've wanted that, too ... oh, yes, for a long time!"
"I declare if the world was to come to an end you'd sit quiet an' never say a word." "I dessay I should. I'd leave you to speak up for me." "Baint'ee goin' to say nothin', then?" "Iss; I'm goin' to lay it before the Lord." So down 'pon their knees these old souls went upon the limeash, and asked for guidance, and Cap'n Jacka, after a while, stretched out his hand to the shelf for Wesley's Hymns.
If Dora had not been a colonial child, and if I could have feared for myself with Harold by my side, I don't think we should ever have arrived, but Farmer Ogden and his son came out, and a man and boy or two; and when Eustace was recognised, they made what way they could for us, and we were landed at last in a scrupulously clean kitchen with peat fire and a limeash floor, where, alas! we were not suffered to remain, but were taken into a horrid little parlour, with a newly-lighted, smoking fire, a big Bible, and a ploughing-cup.
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