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Darting a hasty glance at the ivy-draped windows nearest the road, and finding that she was not observed, she hurried to meet him. "Betsy," he whispered, "I must see Martha again before I leave, and you must tell me how." "Tell me how. Folks say that lovyers' wits are sharp," said she, "but I wouldn't give much for either o' your'n.
He ain't half good 'nough for her. Too many quids goin' a flingin' on 'em about like buttons! He's been a crackin' o' cribs he has. I ain't a goin' to interduce our Mattie to no sich blokes as him. No fathers or lovyers for me says I! But this here pebble o' Paradise! What's to be done wi' the cherub?
The island, so the monk told me, owes its origin, or rather discovery, to two lovers who fled thither in the year fourteen hundred and something. One of these lovyers, my young friend, was a Scotchman named Robert Matchim, and the other was a Miss Anna D'Arfet, a young lady residing at Lisbon, whose parents objected to Robert and refused to match her with Matchim."
Their last resting-place was seen by a party of Spaniards who subsequently re-discovered the island; when these sentimental mariners, noting the names of the aforesaid lovyers on their joint tombstone, and the account there detailed of their strange adventures, very romantically and devoutly erected a chapel to their memory.
Go 'long! you know what you want me to say, that there never was such a pair o' lovyers under the firmament! Let my deeds prove what I think, say I for here's a case where deeds is wanted!" "You can help me, Betsy you can help me now! Do you know can you guess who was my father?" "Good Lord!" was her surprised exclamation "No, I don't, and that's the fact." "Who was Martha Deane's mother?"
"Very good so far," interposed Mr Stormcock again at this point, in an ironical tone. "Pray go on; it is most interesting!" "Glad you like it," said Larkyns, coolly, without turning a hair. "Well, then, to finish the story. Very unfortunately for these fond lovyers, a storm arose, like that bit of breeze we had t'other day.
And when I opens the drawing-room door, ma'am well, I sees a sight as strikes me intor a statty o' stone, or a pillar o' salt, like Lot's wife." "What? what?" panted Sybil. "I seen 'em both, him and her, a sitting close together and a going on jes like two lovyers as was going to be married to-morrow, or a bride and groom as was married yesterday." "How? how?"
Waal, that disaccommodated the gals mightily, an' they hed a heap more interes' in that old wagin, all smellin' rank with wagin-grease an' tar, than they did in thar lovyers; an' they hed ruther hev hearn that old botch of a wheel that Pete Rodd hed set onto it com in' a-creakin' an' a-com-plainin' along the road than the sweetest words them boys war able ter make up or remember.
Ah, you needn't look wild; it's only her love, and what's the use, for you had it already; but never mind, lovyers is never satisfied; and she's chipper and peart enough, seein' what she has to bear for your sake, but she don't mind that, on the contrary, quite the reverse, and I'm sure you don't deserve it!" "Did she tell you what passed between us, the last time?" Gilbert asked. "The last time.
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