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Updated: June 13, 2025
"He can make the wrath of man to praise Him," Brother Nathan encouraged her. "Yee; but I never heard that He could make the foolishness of woman do it," the old woman said, grimly. As the brothers and sisters parted at the door of the sitting-room Brother Nathan plucked at the Eldress's sleeve; "Is she very wretched Lydia? Where is she now, Eldress? Poor Lydy! poor little Lydy!"
It is even worse than the wrong breathing, and is destined to sweep the whole island, where you can nowhere, even now, be quite safe from hearing a woman call herself "a lydy."
Well, you wait, my lad! There's a little taste of 'ell-sauce a-comin' your way wot'll make you sit up and bawl for yer muvver. He'd got on sailorin' togs, Mr. Cleek, an' a black 'at pulled down low over one eye. Mate wiv 'im looked like a real bad 'un. Gold rings in 'is ears 'e'd got like a bloomin' lydy, an' a blue sweater, and sailor's breeches.
Within, the most startling change seemed the laughing voices that floated out to him from the library. Harkness took his coat and hat and bag a little excitedly and with repeated nods toward the library. "Miss Robin'll be mighty glad to see you, I'm sure; but she has a lydy guest for dinner." "The man actually acts as though I had no right to come unannounced," thought Cornelius Allendyce.
But presently she returned, bringing a cup of hot tea with a dash of gin in it from her own breakfast. "I'd a seen to you afore ef you'd let me," she said. "You tyke it from me, young man, wot you wants is a good hot lining to your belly. I'd 'ave given it to you ef you'd a let me. I'm a lydy as tykes her dinner reg'ler, I am. No, you don't " This, as he turned away his head in protest.
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